| Indictments include drug busts, child pornography
A Johnson County grand jury handed up indictments last week for charges of aggravated sexual assault of a child, stalking, burglary, evading arrest, possession of controlled substances and child pornography.Robert Walter Bonner and Amanda Dawn Bonner were reindicted on possession of marijuana in a drug-free zone between five and 50 pounds. On May 8, the Burleson Police Department seized more than 500 marijuana plants in the Bonners' home, which was 1,000 feet from Kerr Middle School. The couple's two children were placed in foster care. Robert Walter Bonner was also charged with possession of child pornography. The task force found the images on a computer seized from Bonner's home during the arrest.Chistopher Warren Bone of Mineral Wells was indicted on a charge of stalking. Bone, 42, was arrested by the Cleburne Police Department on Sept.
Hope for new cancer therapies
The team is absolutely on the mark with this work. It's enormously promising,'' said Erik Thompson, a breast cancer scientist with St Vincent's Institute and the University of Melbourne. That's so, he said, as the group - led by Joan Massague, head of the cancer biology and genetics program at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York - have revealed key steps breast cancer cells take when they spread to the lungs and bone in a process called metastasis. "Metastasis is what's killing people with cancer,'' said Associate Professor Thompson. "The pathways which allow tumour cells to spread through the body and stay there, resistant to chemotheraphy, are exactly the pathways we have to understand and conquer,'' claimed Professor Thompson. Melbourne-based oncologist and breast cancer scientist Geoff Lindeman agreed, but cautioned that the findings must be proven in clinical trials.
Pledge to scrap Scottish prescription charges
SNP deputy leader Nicola Sturgeon repeated party pledges today that scrapping prescription charges will signal a return to the core values of the NHS as it approaches its 60th anniversary. Speaking at the start of the SNP's annual conference, Ms Sturgeon said that the charges amounted to "a tax on ill health", and confirmed that the Scottish Government will scrap them within the next four years. The health secretary told delegates in Aviemore: "I am announcing today and confirming today that prescription charges will be abolished completely for all, and will be abolished within the lifetime of this parliament. .
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