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SIx middle schoolers hospitalized for overdose
By Times Staff
Published April 8, 2006
ST. PETERSBURG - Six students at Riviera Middle School were taken to a hospital Wednesday after overdosing on over-the-counter cold medicine.
Five eighth-graders and one seventh-grader took six to 12 pills each in a bathroom at the school, said Pinellas County school spokesman Sterling Ivey.
The students soon experienced high blood pressure and rapid heart rates and were taken to the hospital; all were released.
Ivey said the students have been reassigned to alternative schools for the rest of the school year and at least the beginning of next year.
The incident will not prevent them from advancing to the next grade if they are otherwise eligible, he said.
SOCom commander's assignment extended
TAMPA - Army Gen. Bryan "Doug" Brown, commander of Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base, has agreed to stay as SOCom chief beyond the normal three-year stint.
Brown was scheduled to step down in October. But SOCom spokesman Col. Sam Taylor said Brown was asked to stay another year.
According to an article in Inside the Air Force on Friday, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld recently asked Brown to extend his assignment at SOCom in an informal telephone conversation.
As SOCom commander, Brown oversees the nation's elite commandos and is in charge of the Defense Department's global war on terrorism.
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