A 23-year-old man has been remanded in custody in connection with an alleged stabbing of a father and son in Tralee shortly before 6am last Tuesday.

Brian Keane of no fixed abode is charged with trespass at Woodbrook Lawn Tralee, the home of the Fital family.

He is also charged with assault causing harm (Section 3 of the Non-Fatal offences Against the Person Act) to Kamil Fital, aged 47, at Woodbrook Lawn and with the same offence in connection with 17-year-old Hubert Fital at the same location.

Mr Keane was brought before Cahersiveen District Court yesterday.

Det Garda Michael Healy of Tralee garda gave evidence of arrest, charge and caution saying the accused had been arrested in Tralee on Tuesday and charged on Wednesday with the two Section 3 assaults along with trespassing at Woodbrook Lawn and at Shanakill, Tralee, and theft of cash at Moa lee, Tralee, all on November 11.

The accused made no reply to the charges.

Inspector John Brennan said the State was applying to remand the accused in custody.

Pat Mann, solicitor for Mr Keane, said he was not opposing the States application but put it to Det Healy there is a large medical picture here.

The detective agreed and Judge James OConnor ordered that the accused be given appropriate medical treatment while in custody.

He remanded him in custody to appear at Tralee District Court on Wednesday next.

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By ALICIA A. CALDWELL Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Secret Service response to an armed intruder who jumped the fence and raced into the White House was complicated by muted alarms and radios, thick bushes on the lawn, unlocked doors and an officer inside who was physically too small to tackle the intruder and fumbled with her equipment, according to the Homeland Security Department review of the case.

A summary of the government's investigation, released Thursday night, revealed sensational new details about the Sept. 19 break-in at the White House by a disturbed Army veteran carrying a knife.

The government determined that lack of training, poor staffing decisions and communication problems contributed to the embarrassing failure that ultimately led to the resignation of the head of the Secret Service, Julia Pierson. The report disclosed Thursday did not specify any disciplinary actions.

The new report said White House intruder Omar Gonzalez cleared the fence where a trident, or ornamental spike, was missing. An officer in the joint operations center who tried to raise the alarm was unaware his warnings weren't being broadcast to uniformed officers stationed at the executive mansion.

Some officers at a gate on Pennsylvania Avenue failed to see the fence-jumper because their view was obstructed by a construction project. A Secret Service canine officer parked on the White House driveway was using the speaker function on his personal cellphone without his radio ear piece and a second, tactical radio was stashed away in his locker as Gonzalez made his way into the secure area.

Two officers wrongly assumed Gonzalez wouldn't be able to get through thick bushes on the property. Another officer posted on the portico outside the wooden White House doors mistakenly assumed the doors were locked.

Gonzalez, 42, was able to run into the building before a female officer seated just inside the building could lock a second set of doors.

That officer tried twice to take Gonzalez down but was unable because she was smaller than the intruder. She reached for a metal baton but mistakenly grabbed a flashlight instead. As she dropped the light and drew her gun, Gonzalez made his way into the East Room before heading back down a hallway on the State Floor deep within the White House.

Gonzalez was eventually tackled by another officer, who was helped by two plainclothes agents just finishing a shift, the report said.

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By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer

NEW YORK (AP) - A surgeon working in West Africa's Sierra Leone has been diagnosed with Ebola and will be flown to the United States for treatment on Saturday, according to a person in the federal government with direct knowledge of the case.

The surgeon, Dr. Martin Salia, will be treated at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, the person said. A Sierra Leone citizen, the 44-year-old Salia lives in Maryland and is a legal permanent U.S. resident, according to the person, who was not authorized to release the information and spoke on condition of anonymity

The doctor will be the third Ebola patient at the Omaha hospital and the 10th person with Ebola to be treated in the U.S. The last, Dr. Craig Spencer, was released from a New York hospital on Tuesday

In a statement Thursday, the Nebraska Medical Center said it had no official confirmation that it would be treating another patient, but that an Ebola patient in Sierra Leone would be evaluated for possible transport to the hospital. The patient would arrive Saturday afternoon.

Salia is a general surgeon who had been working at Kissy United Methodist Hospital in the Sierra Leone capital of Freetown, according to the person familiar with the case. He came down with symptoms of Ebola on Nov. 6 but test results were negative for the virus. He was tested again on Monday, and he tested positive. Salia is in stable condition at an Ebola treatment center in Freetown. It wasn't clear whether he had been involved in the care of Ebola patients.

Sierra Leone is one of the three West Africa nations hit hard by an Ebola epidemic this year. The disease has killed more than 5,000 people, mostly in Sierra Leona, Guinea and Liberia.

The State Department said in a statement late Thursday, that along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it had been in touch with the Maryland wife of an unidentified Ebola patient about transferring him to the Nebraska Medical Center for care.

The hospital in Omaha is one of four U.S. hospitals with specialized treatment units for people with highly dangerous infectious diseases. It was chosen for the latest patient because workers at units at Atlanta's Emory University Hospital and the National Institutes of Health near Washington are still in a 21-day monitoring period.

Those two hospitals treated two Dallas nurses who were infected while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian man who fell ill with Ebola shortly after arriving in the U.S. and later died.

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Question: My peppers look horrible with curling leaves and brown tips. What is the cause and what can I use that is natural to obtain control?

Answer: Growing good pepper plants has been difficult this fall due to an assortment of pests. Often mites, thrips and whiteflies can be feeding on the same plants. These cause the leaf curl plus tips of new growths to pucker and turn brown. A control is needed or the plants eventually decline. All of these pests can be controlled with a natural insecticidal soap or neem oil spray found at your local garden center. Follow label directions and make repeat sprays as needed which could be once a week until control is obtained.

Q: In my community we have 30-year-old oak trees that are dropping little, round, tan puffballs. We haven't seen these before and are wondering what they could be.

A: Those brown, furry balls dropping from oak tree leaves are kind of cute but may also be alarming to residents. Maybe the drop is heavier this year or the wasps that cause the leaves to produce the growths, called wooly galls, have just found the trees.

Wooly galls form on many types of oaks but are most prevalent on the laurel and live oaks found locally. Small wasps appear to lay their eggs in the leaves during spring and the galls gradually develop, being most noticeable in late summer or fall. Their presence on the leaves may encourage an early leaf drop and the galls often slough off individually to accumulate on the ground. They cause little or no damage and can be ignored. Control would be too difficult.

Q: Do you feel renting a machine and aerating a residential lawn would be helpful if I plan to over-seed with a combination of winter rye and bermudagrass seed?

A: A good raking to remove old grass blades and surface debris is probably a better treatment before over-seeding with a winter grass than aerating that punches holes in the ground. If your soil is compacted, has nematodes or is hard to wet then aeration may be considered as an additional treatment to help all the turf growing as your lawn.

Ryegrass is the traditional seed for establishing a temporary lawn. You can select either annual or perennial ryegrass. Both give a good green lawn for the cooler months and then decline during spring. Only add the bermudagrass seed if you want to establish a new permanent lawn type. Many residents consider bermudagrass a weed when growing with St. Augustine, bahia or zoysia lawns. It is best not to mix these grasses.

Q: Our Gold Mound duranta plants are being eaten by small, white insects. We used a disease control product with no effects. Do you have any advice?

A: Most likely your duranta planting is now free of leaf spots and similar blotches but those juice-sucking whiteflies are going to continue feeding unless you switch to an insecticide. Natural products like insecticidal soap or horticultural oils can control these pests but you have to hit the under side of the leaves which can be difficult with these dense-growing shrubs.

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SALT LAKE CITY A Utah dad foiled an attempt to kidnap his young daughter from her bed early Friday after confronting a man carrying her across the lawn.

The 5-year-old girl wasnt hurt in the frightening experience, but the incident has evoked haunting echoes of when 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was snatched out of her Salt Lake City bedroom in 2002. She was held captive for nine months before being found.

The suspect in this case entered the home through an unlocked door or window about 4:30 a.m. in Sandy, a middle-class suburb south of Salt Lake City, Police Sgt. Dean Carriger said.

The intruder was in the familys basement searching through things when he came upon the girl sleeping in her bedroom, Carriger said. The suspect took her out of bed and carried her upstairs, making noises that woke the parents.

The girls father went to the door and saw the man carrying his daughter in the front lawn. He ran outside and confronted the man, wrestling away his daughter.

The suspect then fled, and the father called 911.

Officers set up a perimeter, and with the help of police dogs, launched a search. The suspect went into a second home, where the residents heard him and called police.

Police captured the 46-year-old man outside that second home thanks to a police dog that bit the suspect in the upper shoulder, Carriger said.

The family told police they had never seen and dont know the suspect, who police have identified as Troy Morley of Roy, Utah. Police dont know yet why the suspect was in the house or if he had a planned it, Carriger said.

Morley is still at the hospital receiving medical treatment for the dog bite but is expected to be arrested later Friday and booked on charges of child kidnapping and burglary.

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Fair Lawn, NJ (PRWEB) November 04, 2014

Fair Lawns newest dental care office had its gala grand opening last Wednesday evening. Fair Lawns Mayor John Cosgrove helped welcome the crowd and started the festivities by officially cutting the ribbon to announce that Promenade Dental Care is now open and accepting patients. Also in attendance were Dr. Yiska Furman and staff, members of the Fair Lawn Chamber of Commerce, and other community leaders.

Guests enjoyed refreshments while being shown around the beautiful new office. Promenade Dental Care is a paperless office and has installed state-of-the-art dental equipment designed to provide the most comfortable care available. While getting dental treatment, patients can sit back and relax in the heated massage chairs each equipped with its own television. The office has digital X-rays that emit 90% less radiation than traditional X-rays. Dr. Furman is committed to making sure patients understand and participate in every step of their treatment. According to Dr. Furman, Patients better understand their treatment options when I use the chair-side television to show them the X-rays and close-up images of their teeth with the intraoral camera. When patients see and understand what is going on they become more comfortable and at ease.

Dr. Yiska Furman is a graduate of the prestigious University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. She completed her residency at Long Island College Hospital followed by two year intensive surgical and restorative implant studies at NYU. With over 500 hours of continuing education, well above New Jerseys requirement, Dr. Furman is highly skilled and is committed to providing excellent dental care at the Fair Lawn Promenade, which is centrally located on Route 208 North. Her office, Promenade Dental Care, is conveniently located next to Fair Lawns first Starbucks and is easily accessible from all the surrounding towns. She has convenient office hours before and after work and Sunday appointments.

Modern technology and personalized care will help patients stay healthier, and this will be more cost-effective in the long run, explains Dr. Furman. Comfortable financial arrangements are offered in her practice to help patients afford the dental care they deserve. Dr. Furman and staff can speak English, Spanish and Hebrew. Dr. Furman wants patients to be able to communicate in the language with which they are most comfortable.

Dr. Furman is excited to join the community. She looks forward to providing the residents of Bergen County with a positive and rewarding dental experience that focuses on meeting her patients needs. For more information please visit the practice website http://promenadecare.com.

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Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today announced a lawsuit against a landscaping contractor accused of failing to deliver lawn care services despite accepting hundreds of dollars in advance payment from Ohio consumers.

The lawsuit charges Israel Alex Barrett, of Cape Coral, Fla., with consumer law violations. In the lawsuit, the attorney general seeks consumer restitution and civil penalties.

We wont tolerate businesses that take advantage of Ohio consumers, DeWine said. This contractor went door to door signing up customers but left town before providing the promised services.

According to the lawsuit, Barrett had a principal place of business in Goshen, Ohio. He used various business names, including Pleasant Plain Lawn & Landscape, Alexs Elite Lawn Care, and Elis Lawn Care, which are not registered with the Ohio Secretary of State.

He contacted homeowners through door-to-door visits and accepted about $300 each from consumers. He offered a complimentary aeration and one free treatment as part of the offer. His six-step lawn treatment program was supposed to last from early spring to early winter.

In March 2014, Barrett closed his operation in Ohio. Although he notified customers that he was closing, he did not find another landscaping contractor to apply the lawn treatments, nor did he provide refunds.

The Ohio Attorney Generals Office is aware of 12 complaints from consumers who said that Barrett provided no service or only a fraction of the services for which he was paid.

The Attorney Generals lawsuit, filed in the Warren County Court of Common Pleas, charges Barrett with violating Ohios Consumer Sales Practices Act and Home Solicitation Sales Act by failing to deliver services, performing shoddy work, and failing to provide proper notice of consumers right to cancel a home solicitation sale.

Consumers who believe they have been treated unfairly should contact the Ohio Attorney Generals Office at http://www.OhioAttorneyGeneral.gov or 800-282-0515.

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CHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) -

One construction worker was killed and two others were injured Saturday afternoon when a brick facade collapsed from the front of a West Lawn building.

About 1 p.m. the facade fell from the first story of a commercial building in the 4100 block of West 63rd Street, Fire Media Affairs spokesman Will Knight said.

Roberto Topia-Gonzalez, 44, of the 2500 block of South Homan Avenue, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 1:41 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.

An autopsy performed Sunday found Topia-Gonzalez died of multiple injuries he suffered when he was crushed by a falling brick wall, the medical examiner's office said. His death was ruled an accident.

Another worker, a 30-year-old man, was also taken in serious-to-critical condition to Christ Medical Center, while a third construction worker, a 44-year-old man, was taken to Holy Cross Hospital in fair-to-serious condition, authorities said. A 41-year-old man denied medical treatment, police said.

Mimi Simon, a spokeswoman with the city's Department of Buildings, said the work at the site was being performed by unlicensed contractors without building permits.

The building owner has been instructed to abate the dangerous and hazardous conditions, remove debris and erect a heavy duty canopy for public safety, Simon said in a statement.

The building's owner will be issued several violations upon the completion of a full inspection, Simon said.

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A 44-year-old worker died and three others were injured Saturday afternoon when a brick facade fell from a West Lawn neighborhood building and injured workers, officials said.

The accident happened shortly before 1 p.m., at a single-story commercial building that houses several different businesses across the street from a Mexican restaurant in the 4100 block of West 63rd Street, Chicago Fire Department officials said.

Workers were making changes to the buildings facade when it came tumbling down. Stacks of fallen bricks remained piled on the sidewalk an hour after the accident, attracting a group of gawkers who stood in the parking lot across the street.

A 44-year-old man and a 30-year-old man were taken in serious-to-critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where the older man later died. A 44-year-old man was taken to Holy Cross Hospital in fair-to-serious condition. According to police officials, a 41-year-old man was injured but refused treatment.

Chicago Department of Buildings spokeswoman Mimi Simons said the work at the site was being performed by unlicensed contractors without building permits.

When a full inspection is complete, we expect that we will issue the building owner several violations, said Mimi Simons, spokeswoman for the Chicago Department of Buildings.

The building owner must remove the debris and erect a canopy for the public's safety, she said.

Ramona Lopez, 55, runs a bakery and a small shop selling religious artifacts and plants inside the building. Lopez, who is a tenant in the building, said the workers had been there for three days and described them as hard-working, humble people.

Lopez was working inside the building when she heard a loud crash and saw the accident, she said.

Fighting back tears, she said she was nervous about the future of the building and what its closure could mean for her family.

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