Robert Martel News Today

Five jockeys and horses escaped serious injury from a chain-reaction spill in Tuesday's fourth race at Pennsylvania's Parx Racing.

Allison Holthoff, 37, died on New Year's Eve after waiting hours to be seen in the emergency department of her local Nova Scotia hospital. We talk to her husband Gunter Holthoff, who is calling for change in the health-care system; as well as Robert Martel, a former emergency doctor in Nova Scotia; and Catherine Little, a registered nurse at an ER in New Brunswick, and the unit representative for all hospital nurses in that province.

With a renewed scrutiny on Nova Scotia's emergency departments, experts say the problems of overcrowding and long wait times stem from issues elsewhere in the health-care system.

A federal court has dismissed claims that New Hampshire's Hillsborough County, along with the nurses and outside medical providers for the county's Valley

Robert Martel of Ipswich, Massachusetts is suing the New Hampshire Lottery Commission, claiming they owe him either a gold bar or about $750,000. Thats because when he scratched off his lottery ticket, it revealed a picture of a gold bar - which basically means you lost. Winners reveal a specific dollar amount. But old Rob thinks the picture of the gold bar means he wins a gold bar. As a standard gold bar is 400 ounces in the United States, he calculates the value at $750K. Hell be repres...