A man filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging he was paralyzed and needed his legs amputated after police officers in St. Petersburg, Florida, put him in restraints, placed him in the back of a police van without a seatbelt and then drove in a reckless manner. Heriberto Alejandro Sanchez-Mayen filed the lawsuit in US District Court … Read more
Genesis Chacon was pregnant when she essentially carried her husband and toddler across countries to get to Chicago. Her healthy, able-bodied husband became paralyzed from the chest down due to a rare condition he developed while on their journey to the United States last summer. Now, the 22-year-old mother from Venezuela tends to his every … Read more
By Maximilian Heath BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s grains trade is largely “paralyzed” by a lack of soybeans due to drought and farmers holding onto produce, anticipating a devaluation of the peso under President-elect Javier Milei, the head of the main export chamber told Reuters. The comments were the first from the crushing and export … Read more
You can’t talk about Thanksgiving in the NFL without discussing John Madden. The legendary football coach and broadcaster will forever be connected with the holiday, thanks to his over 20 years calling games on the November holiday — plus his introduction of the turducken. This season marks the second year that the NFL has the … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — The stunning removal of Kevin McCarthy as speaker left the House effectively paralyzed Wednesday as Republicans struggled to bring order to their fractured majority and begin the difficult — and potentially prolonged — process of uniting around a new leader. The House opened briefly then shuttered closed, with caretaker speaker pro-tempore Rep. … Read more
Maryland deputies are under fire after two shocking videos emerged of them detaining a paralyzed Black man, causing him to fall out of his car and forcing him to sit on the ground. Sources say the officers mistook him for a different suspect and reacted before verifying his identity. The two viral videos of the … Read more
Doralice Carneiro Sobreira Goes spent a year in the hospital after eating expired pesto from a local farmer’s market Jam Press/@doralice.goes Doralice Carneiro Sobreira Goes A Brazilian woman who ate expired pesto from a farmer’s market ended up in the hospital for a year, fighting a botulism infection that left her temporarily paralyzed. Doralice Carneiro … Read more
Ann, a stroke survivor, can talk utilizing a digital avatar that decodes her meant speech. {Photograph}: Noah Berger/UCSF There are trade-offs to each group’s approaches. Implanted electrodes, like those the Stanford group used, file the exercise of particular person neurons, which tends to supply extra detailed data than a recording from the mind’s floor. However … Read more
A Turkish-born artist who moved to New York six years in the past was immediately paralyzed from the neck down after a person allegedly shoved her right into a shifting subway prepare in what a prosecutor described Wednesday as a “fully unprovoked” assault. Kamal Semrade, 39, was charged with second-degree tried homicide and different crimes … Read more