Posted: 9:31 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011
Can Vitamins Jeopardize Your Health?; Teen Could Be Expelled For Fake Cash
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- In KISS news about your health: Something in your medicine cabinet may actually make men more likely to get prostate cancer. Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic looked at men who took a 400-unit Vitamin E capsule every day for five years. They figured that taking a strong E supplement might help men prevent prostate cancer, but it appears that the opposite seems true. Seventeen percent more men in the vitamin E group developed prostate cancer than those men who took a placebo. The lead author says the increase was too significant to be chance, and that it's unclear what effect vitamin E at low doses may have on prostate cancer risk.
- KISS news about your health: your multivitamin could be harming your health. University of Minnesota researchers found that older women who take a daily supplement could be upping their risk of dying from heart disease or cancer. Vitamin B6, iron, and folic acid were tied with an increased risk, while calcium supplements were associated with a lower risk. The study highlights concerns about mostly-healthy people taking supplements for an extended period.
- All she wanted to do was take care of a speeding ticket, but deputies at DeKalb Recorders Court were more interested in her fashion choices. Olivia Walker says she was told her skirt was too short to come into court--and she was turned away. Now, Walker is afraid she'll be arrested for failure to show up in court. She intends to file a complaint with the Justice Department.
- The Los Angeles County coroner may have blown the lid off of Dr. Conrad Murray's defense--that Michael Jackson gave himself the fatal dose of propofol while the doctor was out of the room. Dr. Christopher Rogers, who performed Jackson's autopsy, says the whole thing had to have taken place within a two-minute period of time, while Murray was out of the room, and that there was not enough time for that to happen. Rogers says it is more likely that Murray gave Jackson an overdose. Prosecutors appear to be winding down their case.
- A 17-year-old high school junior could be expelled from Dutchtown High for buying a candy bar at school with a counterfeit $10 bill. Tierra Payton says she didn't know the bill was phony; she is facing a disciplinary hearing today. Payton's aunt, who gave her the money, says she got the bill from the self-checkout at a home improvement store.
- A young Gwinnett County man is working to clear his name after a relative got him in trouble with police. Zentavious Holder spent a week behind bars for a string of copper and air conditioning thefts because the real suspect, Ronald George, gave police his cousin's name and birthdate! Holder says he holds no ill will toward his cousin after his days behind bars, since George eventually came forward and surrendered to the police. George is now jailed and charges against Holder have been dropped.
- Several Atlanta educators implicated in the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal will soon find out whether the state will yank their teaching certificates. The state Professional Standards Commission is expected to hand down the first formal punishments in the case tomorrow.
- She was trying to pull some strings by getting a speeding ticket fixed for the son of a deputy. But a records clerk for an Illinois sheriff flubbed it--by mistakenly faxing her signed request to the local newspaper. The papers were meant to go to the city attorney; the deputy's son was going 23 miles over the limit. turns out the city attorney says he doesn't have the power to do that, anyway.
- This guy sure took some trouble to rip off a dollar store in Pennsylvania. Police are looking for the man who stuffed pennies into dime wrappers and used them to pay for his items at a Dollar General. He'd even put dimes at the end of the rolls, so they looked legit. The scammer used eight rolls--what should have been $40 worth of dimes.
- Government officials say they won't be pushing the food industry to get rid of colorful cartoon characters on cereal boxes anytime soon. Allowing the icons to stay on the boxes of kid cereals is one of the concessions officials say they're likely to make as they try to get food companies to curb junk food marketing to children. The House is holding a hearing on the issue today.
- Sony is hit with another hack attack. Hackers tried to access user accounts on the PlayStation network in the 2nd major attack this year. Sony briefly locked 93,000 accounts and sent users instructions to change their passwords. They say no credit card data was jeopardized.
- The KISS 104 weather forecast: cloudy high of 72.
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