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Dentist sued after boy swallows tool

HOUSTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- A Texas dentist is being sued by parents who claim their young son swallowed a piece of dental equipment during an exam.

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Juhlia Nelson and Shayne Nelson claim in their Sept. 30 Harris County District Court lawsuit against Dr. Gloria Phillips that their son, Kayne Nelson, swallowed a piece of a dental instrument when there was an equipment failure during his exam, the Houston Chronicle reported.

The age of the boy and the nature of his injuries from the incident were unclear Tuesday.

The lawsuit is seeking unspecified monetary damages.


SunChips nix loud, eco-friendly bags

PLANO, Texas, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Texas-based snack company Frito-Lay said it is getting rid of its 100 percent compostable SunChips bags after customer complaints about the loud packaging.

Officials with the Plano company said the chips will be returned to their previous, non-recyclable bags while developers work to make the eco-friendly packaging less noisy, USA Today reported.

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"Clearly, we'd received consumer feedback that it was noisy," Frito-Lay spokeswoman Aurora Gonzalez said. "We recognized from the beginning that the bag felt, looked and sounded different."

Gonzalez, who said the Original flavor chips will still feature the eco-friendly packaging, said the company will continue trying to develop environmentally safe chip bags without the extra noise.

"We are on a journey with compostable packaging," Gonzalez said.


School greenhouses searched for pot

CUARTELES, N.M., Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Officials of a New Mexico middle school said they were stunned when authorities searched their greenhouses for marijuana but all that was growing were tomatoes.

Patricia Pantano, education director of the Camino de Paz Montessori School and Farm in Cuarteles, said the school's faculty and 12 students were eating lunch outside Sept. 21 when they spotted a helicopter flying back and forth over the property, The (Santa Fe) New Mexican reported.

Pantano said the helicopter left after about 15 minutes and a state police officer arrived about five minutes later and told officials only that he was there as a representative of law enforcement.

She said other vehicles soon arrived and four men wearing bullet-proof vests with no visible insignias asked to search the school's greenhouses.

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"As we have nothing to hide, you know, they did the tour and they went in the greenhouses and they found it was tomato plants and so that was the story," she said.

A state police spokesman confirmed a drug task force involving police, the National Guard and other agencies conducted raids in the area.


Hospital apologizes for 'see blood' slogan

GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- A Swedish hospital has apologized for a Halloween blood drive campaign that some residents complained was too frightening.

Jan Kronar of Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg said the slogan -- "Give Blood! See Blood!" -- was a "big, big mistake," Swedish news agency TT reported.

Kronar said the slogan was printed by an advertising company on an unaddressed sheet of paper and sent to 30,000 local households.

The hospital said 20 to 30 people called and complained the message was frightening and threatening, especially in light of recent homicides in the city.

"We did not think, we apologize, we have learned from this and have done a complete U-turn," Kronar said.

The hospital said it is drawing up plans for a new campaign.

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