Yvonne Walker arrested for murder in Irvington
17.06.11

BY ALICIA CRUZ NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
Irvington police arrested a 45-year-old woman in connection with the murder of Casetta Blunt, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced Friday.
Murray, who reassured the public during Thursday's press conference that Blunt's murder was a target incident and not a random act of violence, said the Prosecutor's office is pleased to have arrested the suspect quickly.
“The brutal and senseless death of an 88-year-old woman who was best known in the community for tending her garden and being kind to people is an unspeakable tragedy," Murray added.
Early Friday morning, warrants were signed charging Yvonne Walker with murder, felony murder, robbery, unlawful possession of a weapon and possession of a weapon for a lawful purpose. Walker reportedly performed chores at Blunts home regularly. Results from a preliminary autopsy showed the victim died of multiple stab wounds .
Source: newjerseynewsroom.com
Racing: Soft Ascot track blunts Star Witness
23.02.73
Two days of steady rain made for a heavy Ascot track yesterday.
"He has got a really good burst and I think if you'd seen him on a good track today you would have really seen him let go," O'Brien said.
"He puts a length and a half on them inside the furlong but just peaks on it late and a lot has to do with the ground being just a little bit testing."
O'Brien will keep Star Witness in Europe for the Newmarket July Cup and denies two starts last week was too much to ask of the horse.
"He's certainly managed it before in Australia, he raced twice over the Melbourne Cup Carnival and he's raced twice here now," the trainer said.
"He's got three weeks here now until the Newmarket race and ... he's certainly thrived so if he keeps on that plane he'll be there on July Cup day [July 9]."
Source: New Zealand Herald
Therapeutic Hypothermia Network Benefits Cardiac Arrest Patients
23.02.92
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Cooling treatment, or therapeutic hypothermia, is effective yet underused, researchers said.
A network of first responders, EMS departments and more than 30 independent hospitals within 200 miles of Minneapolis, Minn., and Abbott Northwestern Hospital collaborated to implement the protocol.
“We’ve shown that a fully integrated system of care, from EMS through hospital discharge, can provide this essential therapy to victims of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest across a broad geographic region,” said Michael Mooney, M.D., the study’s lead author and director of the therapeutic hypothermia program at Minneapolis Heart Institute, where the protocol was developed.
Source: Forbes (blog)