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Posted: 12:00 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010

Haiti Patients Arrive In Atlanta; Charges Expected For Michael Jackson's Doc 

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By Veronica Waters

  • A half-dozen trauma patients from Haiti are in Atlanta for top-notch medical care; the injured include a U. S. Marine, and an 18-month-old with a brain injury.  They flew in on a Coast Guard plane Tuesday night, the first of what is expected to be a series of groups flying in this week to hospitals in metro Atlanta.  Wellstar-Kennestone Hospital's Dr. Doug Lundy expects most of the wounded will have crush injuries and fractures.

  • His lawyer says Dr. Conrad Murray, the physician who administered what turned out to be a lethal combination of sedatives to Michael Jackson last June, is prepared to surrender to authorities within 48 hours.  Los Angeles prosecutors are expected to charge Murray with involuntary manslaughter.  Murray spent Tuesday strategizing with a three-member defense team.  He has maintained nothing he gave the 50-year-old pop star should have caused his death.

  • Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss is among several Republicans objecting to an effort to repeal the 17-year-old "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy which fires military members who say publicly that they're gay.  Chambliss, who did not serve in the armed forces, says having gays and lesbians serve openly would crush morale.  The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, says servicemembers shouldn't have to lie about who they are.  Mullen is launching a yearlong review of how to lift the ban, including consideration of benefits for domestic partners.  Changing the policy would require an act of Congress.

  • Snellville plans to appeal a court ruling which bans the sale of alcohol by-the-drink on Sundays unless the measure is approved by voters citywide.  In the meantime, they're seeking a temporary injunction to allow restaurants to keep pouring.

  • A computer security analyst at UGA is charged with blackmailing a student he caught illegally downloading music on the school computers.  Thirty-seven-year-old Dorin Dehelean of Atlanta allegedly told the coed he'd keep quiet if she paid him off.  He was arrested after taking money from an undercover cop posing as the student.

     
  • A Mableton man could get 20 years in prison if convicted of slugging his son's assistant football coach at Pebblebrook High School back in 2008.  Prosecutors contend Ronald Lee was upset Preston Moses had made his son run sprints, and so punched him in the face while gripping a roll of pennies.  The coach had to have plastic surgery on his mouth.

  • Consumer Reports testing finds bags of pre-washed salads may not be as clean as you hoped.  A lab found relatively high levels of coliform bacteria in nearly two out of every five bags.  The bags with the highest levels tended to contain spinach, or were within five days of the use-by date.  Bottom line?  Rinse the greens before serving.

  • The recession has Americans reaching for less-expensive brands of alcohol.  According to a report by the liquor industry, people been drinking more at home and less at bars and restaurants.  The survey also shows sales of less expensive vodka and tequila increased last year.

  • The suspect in the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a Northwest jet headed to Detroit is said to be talking with FBI investigators.  Umar Abdulmutallab reportedly started cooperating after his family flew in from Nigeria to persuade him to open up.

  • Delta and Northwest Airlines are now officially one.  Over the weekend, Delta completed folding all of Northwest's flight codes into its own system and took down the NWA website. Delta acquired them in 2008, making it the world's biggest airline.

  • A Kennesaw State University student dies after passing out drunk at an off-campus party.  Dorian Varcianna, a 21-year-old nursing major from New York, had blacked out Saturday and was taken home by his brother and a couple of friends, who put him on a love seat and covered him up for the night. Varcianna never woke up.  Authorities are awaiting toxicology results on precisely what killed Varcianna.

  • L.A. health officials say they can't be the condom cops.  An AIDS health care group is trying to require that porn stars always wear condoms when shooting an X-rated film, but officials say a porno can be shot just about anywhere--making it impossible to enforce any rubbers rule.

  • Georgia lawmakers are trying to come up with a new budget, and House Speaker David Ralston says he doesn't support a proposal by Governor Sonny Perdue to charge hospitals and insurance companies a 1.6% fee to offset the state's Medicaid deficit.  He's also against a bill in the House which would add a one-dollar tax to cigarettes and tobacco.

  • First the gas pedal, now the brakes?  Reeling over a massive multi-million-vehicle recall, Toyota is now fielding complaints about brake problems with the Prius.  Prius isn't part of the sticking accelerator recall, but the hybrid is under scrutiny after some drivers in the US and Japan say their brakes were faulty, or even failed. 

  • The KISS 104.1 weather forecast: sunshine, high 54; tonight's lows in the 30s.  Thursday, m/c 70% afternoon or evening rain, high 42.
 
 
 

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