AUSTIN - Parents of a toddler who died earlier this week while at the dentist said they are still in shock. All that was supposed to happen was routine. Daisy Lynn Torres needed to have two cavities filled, Betty Squier and Elizandro Torres said Thursday. Because Daisy was 14 months old, a dentist at Austin Children's Dentistry was using general anesthesia. "They told me to sit down with her so they could put her under, and they told me to leave the room," Squier said. "So I left the room." After Daisy was anesthetized, Squier said the dentist, whom she did not identify, told her that her daughter needed additional dental work. "About 10 or 15 minutes into her procedure, the dentist came back because
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Nebraska is halting production of its new, widely mocked license plate after officials learned that the state icon depicted at the center wasn't drawn accurately, officials announced Friday. The license plate is supposed to show the Nebraska Sower, a statue of a man throwing seeds from atop the state Capitol. Department of Motor Vehicles Director Rhonda Lahm said the state will redesign the plates to correctly depict the statue "so that production can resume in the near future." The new plates will be issued starting in 2017 as part of Nebraska's 150th birthday as a state.
Associated PressThe U.S. State Department has suspended an internal review of whether classified information was properly handled in former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails at the request of the FBI, a spokeswoman said on Friday. Clinton, the front-runner in the race for the Democratic Party nomination in the Nov. 8 presidential election, has apologized for using a private email server for official business while in office from 2009 to 2013 and said she did nothing wrong. The FBI is investigating the arrangement. On Jan. 29, the State Department said 22 emails sent or received by Clinton had been upgraded to top secret at U.S. intelligence agency's request and would not be made public as part of the release of thousands of Clinton's emails.
Business InsiderA Frisco mother missing since Monday was found dead in her SUV Thursday with her three young children alive beside her in a McKinney shopping center parking lot. The boy and two girls were taken to Children’s Medical Center Plano for evaluation, Frisco police spokesman Benito Valdez said. The children - Lauren Woo, 5, Nathan Woo, 3, and Leah Woo, 1 - were severely dehydrated, KDFW-TV (Channel 4) reported. There were no signs of trauma to Christine Thi Woo’s body, sources told KTVT-TV (Channel 11). The Collin County medical examiner’s office has yet to release a cause of death Friday, and police had no updates on their investigation or the children’s conditions. Woo’s husband, Brandon, called
Crime BlogA Muslim family of five from Libertyville wants an apology from United Airlines after the family was removed last month from a plane at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. The removal came after the parents requested an additional strap for their youngest daughter's booster seat, according to Ahmed Rehab, executive director of Chicago's Council on American-Islamic Relations. Rehab said the family was ordered to exit the plane for security reasons. When the mother and father repeatedly asked the flight crew why they were being removed, they were told to exit "peacefully," return to the gate and await further instructions, Rehab said. United Airlines said in a statement that the family was
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A reporter for Defense News is the first to spend time on the USS Zumwalt as it conducted builders trials off the coast of Maine. The Zumwalt's iconic slab-sided profile, in which no radar antennas, weapons or masts are visible, reduces the ship's radar cross-section. Although most recent U.S. Navy surface ships incorporate some level of stealth, Zumwalt is by far the stealthiest.
Popular MechanicsSeveral years back, Iran rolled out its Qaher F-313 ‘stealth fighter’ in front of then President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Within hours it was met with near universal derision from defense and aerospace experts around the world. While almost everyone outside Iran saw the project for the farce that it was, Tehran insisted that the project was real and that it was already flying. Further, the Iranian government insisted that the bizarre-looking aircraft-which was allegedly superior to the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter-would become operational in the very near future. But since then the project has disappeared. So, whatever happened to Iran’s impressive plans for the
The National InterestWhile April Fools’ Day pranksters might just be looking for a bit of fun, these stunts proved to be no laughing matter. InsideEdition.com is taking a look at some April Fools’ Day gags that quickly went awry. On April 1, 2015, students at an apartment complex near Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, were victims of a prank gone wrong.
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