|
(Continued from page 22)
• Moeller said he doesn't have a death wish, but executing him is "right." He said if the rape and killing of a little girl doesn't warrant the punishment of death, then nothing does.
• "I don't want to be executed," Moeller said. "I don't want to die. I want to pay for what I owe."
•
SD hospital being fined for radiation mishap
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission plans to fine a Sioux Falls hospital $11,200 for incidents in which a breast cancer patient suffered skin burns during treatment.
• The commission says the incident at Avera McKennan Hospital involved brachytherapy, which irradiates cancerous tumors inside the body. The agency says the patient's skin was exposed directly to radiation twice in January because of a computer programming error.
• Avera McKennan issued a statement Thursday saying it took the incidents seriously and cooperated with the NRC. The hospital says the patient is doing well, and that it has taken steps to ensure a similar incident doesn't happen in the future.
• The NRC says Avera McKennan has taken steps that provide "reasonable assurance" that such an incident will not reoccur.
•
Drought worsens in some key Midwest farming states
JIM SUHR,AP Business Writer
• ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The nation's worst drought in decades is showing no sign of letting up in several key Midwest farming states, worrying farmers harvesting the summer's withered corn crop in record time that their winter crops may also be at risk.
• Overall drought conditions in the lower 48 states held steady over the seven-day period ending Tuesday, with about one-fifth of the total land area in extreme or exceptional drought, the two worst classifications, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor's weekly update of its drought map released Thursday.
• Conditions worsened, though, in Kansas and Iowa, the nation's biggest corn producer, and nearly 98 percent of Nebraska was still deemed to be in one of the two worst categories.
• The unrelenting dryness won't have much effect on the region's corn and soybean crops, which are already being plucked from the fields. But it could hurt other crops, such as winter wheat.
(Continued on page 24)
|
|
