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Robbins man charged in robbery

A 57-year-old Robbins man was arrested Nov. 23 after he stole a womans purse and hit her in the parking lot at the Sav-A-Lot supermarket, Midlothian police reported.

The Parent-Teacher-Student Association at Oak Lawn Community High School is out about $1,000 after the money was stolen between Oct. 24 and 29 from the concession building at the football field, police reported.

A Chicago Heights man is facing charges after leading police on a chase and crashing his sport utility vehicle into a house in the 7700 block of Sycamore Drive in Orland Park, police reported.

A 32-year-old Justice woman was attacked and robbed by two men who initially came to her aid and changed a flat tire for her, Oak Lawn police reported.

A Chicago man, stopped by Oak Lawn police for speeding, tried to fool police by calling in a fake report of a shooting and wound up being charged with filing a false police report and other charges, police reported.

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A Texas jury will soon decide on Eddie Ray Rouths next home: a maximum-security prison cell or a room with an open door and no lock.

Rouths defense attorneys have argued that their client is not guilty because he was insane when he killed Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield in February 2013. But lawyers who have staged similar defenses say it will be a hard sell to jurors, in part because they are told little about what comes after an insanity verdict, and how Rouths life in a state hospital would differ from life in prison.

The upshot: Routh would have more freedom at a state hospital and could be let out at some point. He would have a regimented life and difficulty convincing doctors and a judge that he should be released permanently.

But its not prison.

Our mission is treatment and recovery, not punishment, said Carrie Williams, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of State Health Services. Our whole focus is empowering patients to become responsible for their own lives.

Routh would go to one of two state mental health maximum-security facilities. Both are in small towns: Rusk, in East Texas, and Vernon, near the Panhandle.

Once inside the secured perimeters, it looks very much like a local community college, Williams said.

The hospitals have regimented days, regular shower times and jobs such as janitorial work or gardening. They have classes, such as those that deal with social skills, anger management and life skills.

Patients can learn about their illnesses, medication and treatments. Their rooms, with twin-size beds and a small wardrobe, are bathed in soothing colors. The doors stay open. There is TV, but not in the bedroom. The Internet is restricted. Cellphones and other contraband arent allowed.

David Self, retired chief of the forensic unit at Rusk State Hospital, said the daily programming is both therapeutic and good for security.

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Weeds in a gravel drive

Q Last year we renovated and extended our weedy gravel drive. Some of the area was lined with a membrane before a thick layer of coarse gravel was spread on it, while other parts (where there is less traffic, and where much of the original soil had been removed or churned up badly during some major building works), we didnt bother. Almost straight away, weeds (including thistles) started to appear, even on the areas with the membrane. What now?

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A The areas that have simply been gravelled over the top of the disturbed soil will have naturally sprouted an enormous amount of weeds, seeds of which will have lain dormant in it for years. Creeping thistle and dock are extremely tenacious perennials, notorious for spreading around in disturbed, infertile soil.

The weeds that are showing up where you really didnt expect them in places where you laid the membrane are possibly growing through gaps where the membrane has become damaged by car traffic, or where it was not overlapped sufficiently. In any event, over time a layer of silty soil builds up on top of membrane, enabling determined weed seedlings to germinate and thrive, so you may always have a bit of a problem, despite your efforts.

When growth really kicks off next month, you can treat all the weeds in the gravel with one of the long-lasting weedkillers that contain glyphosate, to hit the current crop of visible weeds, both annual and perennial. Some of these products also contain chemicals that will inhibit the future germination of seeds for up to three months, although I suspect this is a bit optimistic where deeply gravelled drives are concerned. The products available to gardeners are Path and Drive Weedkiller (from Bayer Garden) or Pathclear (from Scotts), and both can be found in garden centres. These are strong chemicals and instructions should be followed carefully: They should not, for example, be used on sloping land (where there is a danger that the weedkillers will drain onto flower beds or grass), but once they are dry, children and pets need not be excluded from treated area.

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Q Val Groves is worried about random little fungi that have appeared in her garden, presumably from a delivery of mulch that was spread about her borders during the course of a makeover. She asks if the fungi will harm her new plants, and if so, how she can rid her garden of them.

A Nearly all fungi that appear in gardens are harmless to plants, growing naturally from organic matter in the soil (or as in Vals case, from organic matter brought in from elsewhere). If they offend, they should just be brushed away or forked into the soil. Notable exceptions are honey fungus that travels via very distinctive underground rhizomorphs from dead hosts to live woody plants. They also throw up crops of orange toadstools from the roots of affected trees and shrubs. To hinder its spread, all dead woody plants and as much of their root as possible should be dug out and burnt. The other garden baddie that can spread from dead to living woody plants is coral spot rot (showing as crops of small orange pustules on the dead branches of, for example, acers and chaenomeles). Swift removal and disposal of affected branches will prevent airborne spores from hanging around.

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ST. PAUL Two bills have been brought before the House and Senate in a bipartisan effort to restore Local Government Aid to 2003 levels, and another would have a portion of these funds going towards improving water treatment facilities in rural areas.

ST. PAUL Five DFL Senate leaders have introduced a package of bills addressing Greater Minnesotas economic needs by requesting major funding for public infrastructure, housing, broadband access, and career counseling.

With a renewed focus on Greater Minnesota already emerging as one of the themes of the 2015 legislative session, leaders of the Coalition of Greater Minnesota Cities (CGMC) and the Greater Minnesota Partnership (GMNP) held a press conference to discuss what needs to happen for the session to be considered a success for Greater Minnesota.

The City of Grand Rapids now has a lobbyist.

With the development of the internet, government information has become much easier for the public to access. This is a wonderful tool for people when they are doing research on their city, county, state, or federal government. However, it is important when attempting to compare one unit of government to another that the researcher fully understands the data.

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Cambridge resident and comedy writer Rory McGrath is supporting a new Breathlessness campaign launched in the East of England.

With recent figures showing there is more than 122,000 people in the region who may be living with undiagnosed heart or lung disease, thePublic Health England (PHE)campaign aims to raise awareness that being short of breath while doing everyday activities can be a sign of these conditions.

People are encouraged to see their doctor if they experience breathlessness while doing everyday activities, such as mowing the lawn, walking up stairs or getting dressed. Early diagnosis and treatment of heart or lung disease have the potential to save lives and improve the quality of life of those living with long-term conditions

Rory, who himself has been affected by heart disease as both his mother and father suffered with heart conditions, hopes his support will help to increase the number of people diagnosed with these conditions and receive the treatment that they need.

My mother, now in her eighties, has been troubled with serious heart problems for many years and it was a heart attack which finally took my father from us, so I am no stranger to the devastating effects heart disease can have on peoples lives, he said.

We all put things off but we hope this campaign will give people who are affected by breathlessness the little nudge they need to visit their doctor.

Dr Daryl Freeman, GP Principal Norfolk and East of England SCN Clinical Director, said: Many people put feeling short of breath down to getting older, being unfit or overweight and therefore stop doing the everyday activities when they find it most affects them.

However, their breathlessness could be a sign of something more serious, such as a lung or heart condition that needs medical treatment, and would benefit from prompt correct diagnosis.

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SHEPPTON A Shenandoah man suffered minor injuries when the 2008 Chevrolet Cobalt he was driving crashed about 5:25 p.m. Monday on Main Boulevard, Route 924, just north of Green Mountain Road in East Union Township.

State police at Frackville said Vincent J. Zaccone, 28, was driving south when he lost control, went off of the road and hit a snow bank.

Police said, after hitting the snow bank, the car flipped onto its roof and came to a stop on the west berm of the highway.

Zaccone, who police said will be cited as a result of the crash, did not require transport to a hospital.

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MOUNT CARBON Two people escaped injury in a one-vehicle crash that occurred about 10:45 p.m. Sunday on Route 61 in North Manheim Township.

State police at Schuylkill Haven said Kevin W. Kintzel, 26, of Tremont, was driving a 1997 Subaru Outback north in the right lane when he went off the road, onto the berm and struck snow and ice.

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Newswise If youve ever experienced intense, acute pain, you know what a relief it is when the pain finally subsides. But what if the pain doesnt go away? It was a question to which Charles Schofield was determined to find an answer.

Charles battled searing pain on the right side of his face that would start in his nose, cheeks, gums or teeth before traveling up to his eye and head. The pain was so powerful, it wasnt long before the most basic tasks became a challenge for the Fair Lawn, NJ, resident. If I took a shower, as soon as the water hit my head the pain would shoot into my head, Charles recalls. Sometimes it would take me a half hour to eat a sandwich. And forget about touching his face: The pain would stop me in my tracks, says Charles.

As time went on, the pain only intensified. Sometimes it would linger. And the more it occurred, the more it lingered, Charles says.

The search for answers Charles first sought the advice of his dentist, but the source of the pain wasnt his teeth or gums. His primary care doctor referred him to a neurologist, who diagnosed Charles with trigeminal neuralgia. In this condition, painful sensations in the face are triggered by the compression of the trigeminal nerve by a blood vessel in the brain. The pain is so intense it has been referred to as the suicide disease.

Charles doctor recommended medication as a first-line treatment, but its drowsy side effects made his job overseeing operations at Fair Lawn Memorial Cemetery difficult. I run equipment as part of my job, and I have to be alert, he notes.

Two conditions, one treatment Then, Charles heard about Gamma Knife Radiosurgery and the expert team at The Valley Hospitals Gamma Knife Center, located at the hospitals Robert & Audrey Luckow Pavilion in Paramus. The decision to consider treatment with the Gamma Knife turned out to be the right call for more than one reason: MRIs and a subsequent angiogram revealed an arteriovenous malformation (AVM), a benign mass of arteries and veins, putting pressure on the trigeminal nerve.

Gamma Knife radiosurgery is a safe, effective outpatient procedure using highly focused beams of radiation designed to target specific areas without damaging surrounding tissue, says neurosurgeon Anthony DAmbrosio, M.D., Co-Director of Valleys Gamma Knife Center, and Associate Director of Neuroscience at The Valley Hospital, Ridgewood, NJ.

Charles underwent Gamma Knife Radiosurgery in April 2014 to shrink the mass of blood vessels, thus alleviating the pressure on the trigeminal nerve. Throughout the procedure, Charles was kept relaxed and comfortable by the centers specialized team. The doctors, nurses and everyone were really nice, and even better, I felt no discomfort during the procedure, he says.

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