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A beer poster produced by Frederick-based Flying Dog Breweryfeaturing an image of Councilmember Marion Barry (D-Ward 8)was taken down today at the behest of Barry’s lawyer.
The poster, which showed Barry next to the text “Crack One Open D.C.,” was advertising a release party this Saturday at Jack Rose Saloon for its Underdog Atlantic Lager. But according to a tweet this afternoon from head brewer Matthew Brophy, a lawyer representing Barry called the brewery this morning. “Guess it is better than having to bail him out,” joked Brophy.
Barry’s lawyer, Fred Cooke, confirmed that he called Flying Dog CEO Jim Caruso and asked him to take down the ad. According to Cooke, it had nothing to do with the tastefulness (or lack thereof) of the ad, but rather the simple fact that it’s illegal to use a person’s likeness for commercial purposes without their permission.
Cooke said Caruso was cooperative; as of earlier this afternoon, the ad had disappeared from the company’s Facebook page, though it was still available via a link tweeted out yesterday.
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Spotsylvania County emergency officials are working to secure drug compartments in ambulances following a recent string of thefts.
Since April, two thefts have occurred at one rescue station and a third at another station. Morphine and other drugs were taken from locked ambulance compartments.
Fire Chief Chris Eudailey tells The Free Lance-Star that the Department of Fire, Rescue and Emergency Management is changing the drug compartment locks in every ambulance. Separate lock boxes are being added for morphine and Versed, a drug used to produce drowsiness and to relieve anxiety before medical procedures.
Eudailey says fire and rescue officials also hope within the next few months to buy new drug compartments that have technology to identify who accessed them and when.
Madonna’s 15-year-old daughter Lourdes Leon appears to already have picked up a bad nicotine habit after she was pictured smoking a cigarette on Friday.
The eldest daughter of the Material Girl was seen puffing away as she loitered around with male friends in New York.
She had the cigarette in her hand as a pal lighted it for her and seemed very comfortable with it. The legal age for smoking in America is 18.
After a drunken night popping Valium, Thomas Kinkade, the “Painter of Light,” died in his bed. Smudges of green paint still stuck to his fingernails.
An eight-page autopsy report released Tuesday by the Santa Clara County Coroner’s Office, plus police documents obtained by this newspaper detailing a domestic disturbance at his home last summer, added more troubling details to the final months and hours of the world-famous artist known for his peaceful, pastoral images.
Kinkade was 54 when he died the morning of April 6 at the Monte Sereno home he shared with his girlfriend, Amy Pinto-Walsh. When she found him unresponsive, she called police at 11:15 a.m. and told authorities he had been drinking all night. “He was last known to be alive approximately four hours prior,” the coroner’s report said.
For the past two years, he had been legally separated from his wife, Nanette. Her lawyers filed a restraining order against Pinto-Walsh after Kinkade’s death to keep her from talking to the media and besmirching his reputation.
Kinkade, who donated to numerous local causes, had become a fixture in the Los Gatos bar scene over the past couple of years. He was often accompanied by his private bodyguard, who doubled as a driver ever since Kinkade was arrested for drunken driving in Carmel in 2010.
The autopsy revealed “a lethal level” of alcohol, combined with benzodiazepine, the anti-anxiety medication known as Valium.
“His medical history included chronic substance abuse, systemic hypertension” and high cholesterol, according to the report. The autopsy also found hypertensive heart disease and mild coronary artery disease.
The House again rejected a bipartisan amendment to forbid the Justice Department from interfering with states’ implementation of medical marijuana laws, declining to rebuke the Obama administration for recent raids in states including California.
The vote was 163-262. All Bay Area members voted in favor of the amendment.
After 35 years in medicine, a Los Gatos doctor is facing serious criminal trouble for charging drug addicts $100 a bottle for prescription painkillers, which they resold and abused — including one “patient” who overdosed and died, prosecutors said Monday.
Authorities across Santa Clara County, armed with a $1 million arrest warrant, on Friday raided the “pill mill” allegedly being operated by Dr. Jasna Mrdjen, who appeared in court Monday on at least 12 felony charges.
The District Attorney’s Office accuses Mrdjen, a 69-year-old Mountain View resident, of essentially being the kingpin of a drug-dealing operation by knowingly prescribing powerful prescription pain-relievers called oxycodone to drug addicts, even after their families pleaded with her to stop. About four of her patients were also arrested on suspicion of reselling the drugs she prescribed them, purportedly doing some of the deals in her office parking lot. One of them died of a drug overdose.
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