A disgraced immigrant physician convicted of poisoning American cancer patients has been granted a new hearing on his case in federal court, after spending the last 4 years in jail. Doctor Farid T Fata was sentenced to a 45-year federal prison term in 2014, after finally changing his "not guilty" plea to guilty. He was convicted of massive Healthcare Fraud, Conspiracy and Money laundering, and Fata's wife Samar escaped to Lebanon before she could be arrested, eventually confe

A Salinas California physician was found dead in the trunk of his car earlier this month, parked along a desolate highway near Las Vegas. Doctor Thomas Kirk Burchard, age 71, was found by police officers about 11:00 a.m. on March 7 near the entrance of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, According to authorities, Burchard died as the result of blunt force trauma to his head. A family out for a drive in the desert noticed a curious parked car with a broken window just off

We've always loved words. Here are a few examples of why we do: > What do you call the head of an asparagus? A "Squib" > The longest word with no repetitive letters is "Uncopyrightable" > The only word with 3 consecutive double letters? "Bookkeeping" > The longest with its letters in alphabetical order is "Almost" > The compulsion to watch scary movies? "Cacospectomania" > The most common first letter of all words is "S" > What word increased its use by 500,000% over 5

At best, the cheerful news to this sordid story is that there is now at least, one less medically degreed fool blitzing down the freeways of Florida, en route to inevitably killing somebody. We say inevitably because thankfully, this particular fool managed to kill himself - and only himself - last weekend. As reported by the Davie city police, Doctor Omar Awan, a 46-year-old anesthesiologist, lost control of his 2016 Tesla sportscar last Sunday afternoon, careened across 3 l