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31-Jan-2009

Neighbors React To Beating Suspect's Arrest (News On 6 Tulsa)
Kevin Simmons was arrested after his girlfriend called 911 and said he was holding her and her 89-year-old mother captive in a hotel and beating them.

Pfizer Buy Of Wyeth Has A Familiar Look (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! Finance)
It's not as if Pfizer is breaking new ground with its $68 billion cash-and-stock bid for Wyeth, which was announced to great fanfare last week...

Canadian 93-year-old man sentenced two years for sexually abusing daughters (People's Daily)
A 93-year-old Canadian man was given a sentence of two years less a day for sexually abusing his daughters when they were children some 50 years ago. Philippe Hamelin, who is deaf, nearly blind and suffers from a disease similar to Alzheimers, was allowed to serve his sentence in the community without going to the jail, the Canadian Press reported Tuesday. Prosecutors have asked for a prison ...

Charlene Hazel Joslyn (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
FORT MITCHELL - Charlene Hazel Berringer Joslyn, 75, died Wednesday, Jan. 28, at Florence Park Care Center.

Events Calendar (The Adobe Press)
n Cal Poly Music Department Early Music Ensemble: ?Masters of the Mission,? 8 p.m., Saturday, pavilion of the Performing Arts Center?s Christopher Cohan Center; cost: $12 general, $8 seniors and students.

Drugmaker Lilly enters guilty plea in Zyprexa case (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania says drugmaker Eli Lilly & Co. formally pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor tied to the marketing of its top-seller, the anti-psychotic Zyprexa.

Silver Alert Cancelled for Palm Coast Man with Alzheimers (First Coast News)
PALM COAST, FL -- Flagler County Sheriff's Officers have canceled a Silver Alert for an elderly man with alzheimers just hours after he was reported missing.