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Toll from crash of team bus rises to seven

By TIMES WIRES
Published March 10, 2007

ATLANTA

A college baseball player pulled from the wreckage of his Ohio team's charter bus died of his injuries Friday morning, raising the death toll from the March 2 crash to seven. Zach Arend's grandmother, Ann Miller, had said the 18-year-old had suffered chest and abdominal injuries, a fractured pelvis and collapsed lungs. Four of Arend's Bluffton University teammates, the bus driver and the driver's wife were killed when the bus plowed off an overpass in Atlanta and crashed onto the Interstate 75 pavement below. More than two dozen others aboard were injured. The team's coach, James Grandey, was listed in stable condition in the intensive care unit at Piedmont Hospital Friday. Two players remained hospitalized at Grady Memorial, one in critical condition and one in fair condition, Simpson said. Another player was in stable condition at Atlanta Medical Center.

TUCSON, ARIZ.

Dozens arrested in immigration raid

Federal authorities arrested a construction company's president and several employees Friday on allegations they hired illegal workers and used lookouts to avoid immigration agents. Eight undocumented workers were detained Friday, and authorities said 30 others had been picked up previously in the investigation. Scores of agents fanned out in Sierra Vista in the raid on Sun Dry Wall & Stucco Inc.'s offices, a foreman's home, the home of a suspected counterfeiter and eight work sites. Company president Ivan Hardt, 44, and one of his foremen used two-way radios to communicate about the whereabouts of immigration agents, according to a criminal complaint. They would relay the location of unmarked Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicles to supervisors who would move the undocumented workers to another site, prosecutors allege. If the immigrants couldn't be moved in time, the foremen would tell them to hide, investigators say.

HEALTH

FDA issues warning on anemia drugs

The Food and Drug Administration issued strict warnings Friday about overuse of widely prescribed anemia drugs after a flurry of recent studies suggested they might cause heart problems or hasten the death of cancer patients. The agency said that a "black box" warning - the strongest kind - had been added to the labels of darbepoetin alfa, sold as Aranesp by Amgen, and epoetin alfa, sold as Epogen by Amgen and as Procrit by Johnson & Johnson. It also said doctors should use the lowest possible dose needed to help patients avoid blood transfusions.

Elsewhere

Madison, Wis.: The state's largest nursing home for veterans paid $87,500 to settle a lawsuit claiming poor nursing care led to a patient's death in 2004. The lawsuit claimed the patient fell out of bed and fractured his hip in December 2003 and, later, nurses failed to follow a plan to monitor and treat a case of pneumonia.

Manheim, Pa.: The Elstonville Sportsmen's Association's was fined $400 Friday for using dozens of live turkeys as targets in an archery contest on Sept. 9. The birds were secured to straw bales at their feet. Archers who drew blood won the birds, authorities said.

Oakland, Calif.: Two 4-year-old girls were shot in the head, one fatally, in what police believe was a gang-related attack on a group of people outside a home, authorities said Friday.

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