Lead Stories
A physician in Canton, Illinois, told a judge in February he didn’t know why he filed 150 false medicare claims. A man in Calgary, Alberta, told a prosecutor in June he didn’t know why he killed a guest at his sister’s wedding. In New Jersey Samuel Manzie told a judge in April he didn’t know why he killed an 11-year-old boy. Quebec union leader Lorraine Page told a court in April that she didn’t know why she left a store with leather gloves she hadn’t paid for. A lab technician in Palo Alto, California, told her supervisor in April she didn’t know why she reused needles to draw blood from thousands of patients. Seventy-year-old Marie Noe of Philadelphia told her lawyer in June she didn’t know why she killed her eight young children decades ago.
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Crises in the Workplace
The Bangkok Post reported in February that Wang Xinzhang had filed a lawsuit against Red Flag Publishing Co. in China to collect damages for a shoddy product: his book Five Thousand Years of China, which had 984 typos. And Texas court reporter Sandra Halsey lost her certification in June for inadvertently helping convicted child killer Darlie Routier’s appeals; there were reportedly 18,000 errors in Halsey’s 6,000-page transcript of Routier’s trial.
In the Last Month
