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Shriners treating victims of Mexico day care fire

Jun. 6, 2009
The death toll from a fire Friday at a Mexican day care center in the northwestern state of Sonora has risen to at least 31, the government reported Saturday via the state-run news agency.
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HERMOSILLO, Mexico, June 6 (UPI) -- Mexican President Felipe Calderon Saturday ordered a federal investigation into a fire that killed at least 38 children at a daycare center.

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AUSTIN, Texas, May 20 (UPI) -- Texas officials estimate it will cost the state about $21 million next year to care for the hundreds of children removed from a polygamist cult.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Officials at a Louisville day-care center say they have fired the facility's cook after he turned out to be a registered sex offender.

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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Los Angeles police say they found a key source of skid row drugs and weapons in a day-care facility.

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WASHINGTON, April 19 (UPI) -- Medicare has launched a new pilot project to cover "adult day care" medical services, the agency said Wednesday.

Aussie day care turning away toddlers

SYDNEY, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Day-care centers in Australia have been rejecting toddlers because they cost too much to care for.

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NITRO, W.Va., Sept. 12 (UPI) -- Federal regulators say dioxin levels in a West Virginia day-care center fall just short of the unacceptable range.

Inquiry in British trauma care

LONDON, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- The Royal College of Surgeons in Britain have asked for an independent inquiry into the quality of care of trauma patients.

Fearing attack, Pentagon to move day care

WASHINGTON, July 14 (UPI) -- Fearing another terrorist attack, the Pentagon plans to move its onsite Washington day care center for employees' children, spokesman Larry DiRita confirmed.

Alabama passes law on day-care medicating

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 18 (UPI) -- Alabama Gov. Bob Riley signed a law Monday making it a crime for day-care workers to medicate a child beyond what is medically prescribed.
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler