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DC to declare rickey as city's native cocktailAP – Thu, Jul 14, 2011 WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's capital is the birthplace of the rickey, a classic cocktail made with gin or whiskey, fresh lime juice and club soda. On Thursday, D.C. Councilmember Jack Evans will join cocktail aficionados to read a proclamation declaring the rickey as Washington's native cocktail and declaring July as rickey month in the district. The rickey was invented in 1883 at Shoomaker's, a bar once frequented by politicians and journalists. The J.W. Marriott hotel now sits on the Shoomaker's site, across the street from the...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Some executions in the U.S. have been put on hold because of a shortage of one of the drugs used in lethal injections from coast to coast. Several of the 35 states that rely on lethal injection are either scrambling to find sodium thiopental - an anesthetic that renders the condemned inmate unconscious - or considering using another drug. But both routes are strewn with legal or ethical roadblocks. The shortage delayed an Oklahoma execution last month and led Kentucky's governor to postpone the signing of death warrants for two inmates. Arizona is trying to get...

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Lacking enough of the anesthetic essential to the cocktail of lethal drugs administered during executions, several US states are being forced to postpone the procedure until early next year. At the heart of the drug supply problem is Hospira, the only pharmaceutical company that produces the anesthetic sodium thiopental. "We are working to get it back on the market and we anticipate we will by 2011," Hospira spokesman told AFP. The US Food and Drug Administration does not approve the drug's use in lethal injections and Hospira does not sell it for that purpose, though prison officials...

According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 3,500 acres in southern Arizona have now been closed to U.S. citizens because of the dangers posed in that area from Mexican drug smugglers. The area includes part of the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge. Refuge manager Mitch Ellis told Fox News: “The situation in this zone has reached a point where continued public use of the area is not prudent.” Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said: “It’s literally out of control. We need support from the federal government. It’s their job to secure the border and they haven’t done it. In...

WASHINGTON: A fruity cocktail may not only be fun to drink but may count as health food, US and Thai researchers said on Thursday. Adding ethanol — the type of alcohol found in rum, vodka, tequila and other spirits — boosted the antioxidant nutrients in strawberries and blackberries, the researchers found. Any coloured fruit might be made even more healthful with the addition of a splash of alcohol, they report in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. Dr Korakot Chanjirakul and colleagues at Kasetsart University in Thailand and scientists at the US department of agriculture stumbled upon...

Health officials have reported a medical alert. There have been eight deaths reported on Friday and four deaths reported on Thursday in Wayne County. Health officials said the deaths were a result of people overdosing on a deadly cocktail of drugs. The Wayne County Medical said the victim's mixed fentanyl, which is used as a painkiller, with heroin or cocaine.

Rep. Patrick Kennedy (news, bio, voting record) crashed his car near the Capitol early Thursday, and a police official said he appeared intoxicated. Kennedy said he had taken sleep medication and a prescription anti-nausea drug that can cause drowsiness. Kennedy, D-R.I., addressed the issue after a spate of news reports. His initial statement said: "I consumed no alcohol prior to the incident."'Later, however, he issued a longer statement saying the attending physician for Congress had prescribed Phenergan on Tuesday to treat Kennedy's gastroenteritis.Kennedy said he returned to his Capitol Hill home on Wednesday evening after a final series of votes...

An American town is being renamed after a cocktail for two weeks this month. According to Ananova, the Richland section of Buena Vista in New Jersey is already into the first week with its new name Mojito. The move comes after Bacardi donated 5,000 dollars to the town. However, Mayor Mayor Chuck Chiarello and Township Committee members had consulted residents before officials could give the go-ahead with the change. The mayor said that he had received positive feedback from the people. The Mojito cocktail has become popular over the last five years, especially after a character in the TV sitcom...

A $119 million federally funded experiment in which an AIDS vaccine is being tested on 16,000 volunteers in Thailand is doomed to fail and should never have been started, 22 leading HIV researchers charge. The scientists allege the Thai volunteers are receiving a crude cocktail made of two antiquated AIDS vaccines, each of which has proved ineffective in previous human tests. "They are taking two failed products and hoping that if they are combined that they are going to work," said Dennis Burton, an AIDS researcher at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla. "Everything I've seen about the Thai...

Experimental 'Coffee Cocktail' Tested As Way To Limit Stroke Damage DALLAS, April 11 ? An experimental drug delivering the potency of two cups of strong coffee and a mixed drink has been shown to limit stroke-induced brain damage in animals. Now, this agent has been demonstrated to be safe in a small pilot study of ischemic stroke patients reported in today?s rapid access issue of Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. This safety study is a crucial prelude to testing the effectiveness of the combination in patients. In previous studies in rats, the size of brain damage was reduced...

NBC reporter Dana Lewis reporting live video from newly discovered PLO terrorist training camp that was discovered in Iraq. It has obstacle course, shooting range, pretty much looks like one of the familiar AlQaeda terrorist training camps. Dana Lewis also reports that this camp is close to the infamous pesticide site and that there are some of the same French pesticide drums (not the others suspected of containing the CW "Cocktail" mixture) at the PLO camp along with gas masks and chemical suits. They're not sure what to make of it and the officer in charge was hesitant to say...

<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A man has been arrested in connection with the discovery of a Molotov cocktail device found outside an office building during one of the recent anti-war protests, The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and police announced Tuesday.</p>

<p>Trust, a Philadelphia restaurant, offers an 'electronic cocktails' menu built around glow-in-the-dark straws and ice cubes.</p>