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A California Consumer Watchdog Group Warns on Lead Levels in Chocolates

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Just in time for Valentine’s Day, legal notices were filed by a consumer watchdog group in California last week claiming that a lot of chocolate firms post warnings on the labels of their packages showing high lead and cadmium levels of their products.

According to Oakland nonprofit group As You Sow, too much exposure to lead and cadmium can lead to health issues like lowering the IQ in children and some cases of kidney damage.

However, the chocolate companies and the association representing their group are disputing the claim. They say that the worst thing that can happen is for a small amount of the cadmium and lead in their products that come from natural sources and they added that the regulators have already rejected this same dispute way back.

It can be remembered that the study on chocolates made in 2005 by Russ Flegal and his colleagues showed that lead found in chocolates didn’t come from natural resources but from the manufacturing itself.

U.S. Officials Say Ebola Quarantine Was a Headache

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When the U.S. federal officials ordered to put 179 residents in the Dallas area under public health surveillance last autumn for Ebola, it become a huge task to meet the personal needs of those people for the three weeks that they were quarantined.

Forcing the people to not leave their homes for 21 days was a major problem as events unfolded in the city and the government had to deal with transportation, employment, education, food and many other household issues.

Under the rules of the government, every single individual quarantined was monitored on a daily basis by either the state or local health workers. This involved visiting each person for a temperature reading and checking every one of them for possible Ebola symptoms then followed by a phone call before the end of the day to get another temperature reading.

Over 75% of the local and state workers have reported that the job made them feeling stressed out and they expressed their worry about becoming ill and perhaps infecting the members of their families.

Muslim Students’ Deaths Spark Outrage in NC

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Muslim students’ death sparked outrage worldwide. The police department keeps on investigating the killing of three Muslim students in North Carolina last Thursday. Their friends and families insisted that these deaths are hate crime, with a very ill motive, and that they asked the policy to investigate the triple-homicide thoroughly.

Craig Stephen Hicks, a neighbor of 46 years old, is charged with first-degree murder in line with the killings of Yusor Abu-Salha, Deah Barakat and Razan Abu-Salha. The Chapel Hill police chief stated that the investigators are exploring on the real motives of Hicks to killing the three students in what has been told a senseless, tragic act.

Craig Stephen Hicks, a neighbor of 46 years old, is charged with first-degree murder in line with the killings of Yusor Abu-Salha, Deah Barakat and Razan Abu-Salha. The Chapel Hill police chief Chris Blue stated that the investigators are exploring on the real motives of Hicks to killing the three students in what has been told a senseless, tragic act.

Blue added that they understand the concerns of the families and relatives that such crimes were committed out of hate, and that they would exhaust all the possible leads to solve the crime.

Alabama Gay Unions Should Be Licensed, Ordered Federal Judge

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Gay unions couldn’t be denied and more in the US, such as Louise Lynn and Peggy Belcher and Regina and Kim Gebauer married in Thursday in Mobile, Alabama. These marriages took place when a federal judge stated that a probate judge couldn’t deny the couples a marriage license.  The federal judge in Alabama ordered that a probate judge should not refuse issuing a license to same-sex couples showing clarity to some quarrel in the judicial system of Alabama for most of this week.

Federal District Court Judge Callie V. S. Granade’s order came out after a short hearing followed by prompted crying and cheers in the halls of the probate court. Several other couple got their licenses and married before the issuing office closed.

The ruling came amidst quarrels in the judiciary system on which Judge Granade, on January 23, ruled same sex unions in Alabama, while the Alabama Supreme Court Roy Moore issued his own order, last Sunday night that the former’s ruling didn’t apply to the probate judges of the state, and so he directed them not to follow.

Let’s stay tuned for the latest in gay marriages in Alabama that we might feature here soon. What’s your side of the story? Don’t forget to write them down in the comment section.

Video Reveals Eddie Ray Routh Rambled Before Arrest

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Eddie Ray Routh had other things in mind when the police officers had asked him to get out of the truck.   He said that he did not know if he was going insane when he confided to a Lancaster police about the rambling incident caught on video by a police body camera only a few hours after the gunning of Chris Kyle and another man at a shooting range at an Erath County. The exchange between Lt. Jesse Chevera and Routh was only one of the videos that were played in Thursday in order to determine if Routh was aware that he shot two men last February 2.

Eddie Ray Routh was a former corporal of the Marines who was specializing in small arms repair. He is now charged for the capital murder of Kyle (38) and Chad Littlefield (35). They had taken Routh in a shooting range which was designed by Kyle himself at the Rough Creek Lodge and Resort, southwest of Fort worth and near Glen Rose in order to try and help Routh manage and fight his post traumatic stress disorder.

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