Fatal Student Opioid Overdoses Prompt Colleges to Action Wall Street Journal Colleges around the U.S., spurred by fatal student overdoses and grieving families, are distributing lifesaving medication and adding on-campus recovery programs as the nation's opioid epidemic worsens. Marine Probers Scour Tens of Thousands of Nude Photos in Scandal Associated Press In the Marines' nude photo-sharing scandal, agents from all four services and the Coast Guard have scoured close to 200 different websites and pulled more than 150,000 nude or semi-nude images. It's the kind of investigation that could go on forever. A simple word search of "uniformed military nude" got nearly 80 million hits. The World Is Not Ready for the Next Pandemic Time Dangerous diseases are on the rise around the world, with the number of outbreaks per year more than tripling since 1980. Even as the scientific and international communities have begun to take the threat of global pandemics more seriously, not enough is currently being done to prepare for the unthinkable. Kenya: The Midwife Who Saved Intersex Babies BBC News Five years ago a midwife in Kenya delivered a child with male and female sexual organs. The father told her to kill it, but instead she hid it and raised it as her own. Why Are Crime Victims Being Jailed? BBC News A New Orleans district attorney is under fire for using "material witness warrants" to jail victims of rape, domestic abuse and attempted murder. In one case, a female rape victim was jailed for eight days after refusing to cooperate with a prosecution. In another, a domestic assault victim was jailed for six. Both were in the same jail as the perpetrator. Bond System Puts Violent Criminals Back on Chicago's Streets Chicago Trimbune The killing of a trial witness, said to have been orchestrated by an accused hood out on bail, illustrates what Chicago officials say is a revolving-door bond system for those who pose the greatest threat: gang members arrested on gun charges. Illegal Scavengers Steal Sunken Warships, Right Down to the Bolts Outside Magazine Why big old sunken ships are so appealing to illegal salvagers: "When it comes to scrap, it's all about the tonnage. If you went out to scrap a modern-day coastal freighter, you're not going to find much to it. But a World War II riveted hull, you're talking about lots and lots of structural steel." Now survivors and descendants of those who died on the USS Houston are pushing for strict new laws to save the ship and the remains of those aboard. |