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Medical examiner takes over a year to return autopsy reports in deaths of children
Three local child homicide investigations still unsolved By Ann McAdams | December 14, 2020 at 2:25 PM EST - Updated December 14 at 7:46 PM
PENDER COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) - It’s disturbing to learn about the murder of a single child. But WECT recently learned three children ages five and younger died by homicide in Pender County in a single year. All of those cases remain unsolved.
One of children, 5-year-old Paitin Fields, made headlines after she was rushed to the hospital after being sexually assaulted and strangled in 2017. She did not survive. Three years later, no one has been charged with her murder.
Leading Into New Communities, Inc. operates a transitional living campus on Division Drive for participants in its re-entry program; the goal of which is to help people recently released from prison while they regain financial independence and secure permanent housing. (Port City Daily photo/Alexandria Sands)
WILMINGTON â Re-entering society after prison is no easy task. Thereâs a criminal record to disclose on job applications, often no stable home to return to and the temptation to return to old vices.
Add âpandemicâ to that list and the challenge becomes unparalleled.
Thatâs when organizations like Leading Into New Communities, Inc. (LINC) are needed. The nonprofit guides men and women through the struggles of returning to life after jail or prison.
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Medical bills and price transparency: Patients will have an easier time knowing what they’ll pay for medical services at UNC Health. The system will roll out an online tool that will give patients an estimate of the cost of some procedures and visits. But the new price transparency is the result of new rules from the Trump administration. President Trump required hospitals to post their prices by January. Hospitals sued to keep prices secret, but they lost the first round in court in June. A federal judge ruled that hospitals were “attacking transparency measures generally” to restrict patients’ access to medical prices. Medical prices are notoriously opaque, and hospitals account for much of the soaring cost of health care in the U.S. In North Carolina, some hospitals charge patients more than twice as much as others but mul
Gov. Cooper modified a stay-at-home order, which goes into effect today, Dec. 11, at 5 p.m. He also released an op-ed to all North Carolinians (see below). (Port City Daily/File)
NEW HANOVER COUNTY Covid-19 cases keep rising since the pandemic swept the nation in March. Friday, in New Hanover County, 8,034 cases and 67 deaths have been reported to the New Hanover County Health Department.
Five new deaths were reported this week, with patients ranging from ages 50 to 80 and having underlying health conditions. Public health is closely monitoring eight outbreaks and three clusters as well.
New Hanover Regional Medical Center, which serves patients in a seven-county area, is reporting treatment of 886 Covid-19 patients to date. It discharged 722, while 122 have died, and 46 on average have been hospitalized as of the data released on Friday, Dec. 4.