Motive sought in slaying of West Virginia sheriff

(Reuters) - West Virginia investigators searched on Thursday for a motive in the shooting death of a sheriff killed as he ate lunch in his vehicle, and his alleged attacker remained in critical condition after being shot by police.

The suspect, Tennis Maynard, 37, of Ragland, West Virginia, has been charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder in the Wednesday shooting of Mingo County Sheriff Eugene Crum, 59, who was killed in his police SUV in Williamson.

The shooting occurred amid a heightened awareness of attacks on U.S. law enforcement officials after two prosecutors in one Texas town and the Colorado prisons chief were killed in apparent targeted attacks this year.

Crum, a former magistrate, took office as sheriff at the beginning of the year vowing to crack down on drug trafficking. He and a local task force made 50 drug-related arrests in February.

Police said that after Crum was shot on Wednesday, Maynard fled the scene and crashed his car after a high-speed chase, and a sheriff's deputy shot him several times when he pointed a pistol at him.

Maynard was airlifted to a hospital, where he was in critical condition but was expected to survive, state police spokesman Sergeant Michael Baylous said.

"He's still on a ventilator and we have not been able to talk to him," he said.

Investigators have not specified a suspected motive for the shooting. Asked if it was related to Crum's crackdown on prescription-pill trafficking, Sheriff's Department Corporal Norman Mines said it was possible.

"But we're not going to focus on one motive," said Mines, the officer who shot Maynard.

He said Maynard spoke briefly after being shot, but Mines and Baylous said the comments were mostly garbled.

The suspect's father, Melvin Maynard, told WSAZ-TV in Huntington on Wednesday that his son had developed mental problems after being exposed to chemicals on a job in Alabama, and had no vendetta against police.

The state police said a .40 caliber Glock handgun thought to have been used to shoot Crum was recovered at the crash scene. The Mingo County Commission appointed Crum's widow, Rosie, interim sheriff.

The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund said 28 officers had been killed in the line of duty in the United States since April 3, 2012, including 13 killed with firearms.

(Reporting by Ian Simpson in Washington and Lee Mueller; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Eric Beech)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/motive-sought-slaying-west-virginia-sheriff-001802516.html

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Maryland set to become latest state to enact stiff gun-control measure

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Maryland was set to become the latest U.S. state to enact stiff gun control measures, with the approval on Wednesday by the state's House of Delegates of legislation that includes a ban on dozens of assault weapons and limits on magazine size.

The legislation, which had been proposed by Governor Martin O'Malley, was passed by the state Senate last month.

Colorado and New York have already passed new laws on gun control, and the Connecticut legislature was set to vote on Wednesday on what supporters describe as one of the toughest gun measures in the country.

Maryland's Democratic-controlled House voted 78 to 61 to pass the measure, sending it to O'Malley to be signed.

"We're so close to enacting common sense reforms," O'Malley posted on Twitter, moments after the bill's passage.

Maryland lawmakers joined others in seeking to tighten controls on firearms following the December massacre of 20 schoolchildren and six adults in Newtown, Connecticut.

The legislation limits magazine capacity to 10 bullets, requires that gun buyers be fingerprinted and licensed, and places new limits on weapons purchases by the mentally ill.

The legislation also bans more than 40 types of existing assault rifles, including all models of the AR-15. That weapon was used in the Newtown attack, by accused Aurora, Colorado, shooter James Holmes, and by Washington's "Beltway sniper" in 2002.

A House committee pulled from the bill part of O'Malley's proposal that set out physical characteristics used to weigh whether weapons made in the future should be banned as well.

Critics have contended that the removal of that proposal from the bill creates a loophole that could allow future types of weapons to be legal that otherwise would be banned.

The package also allows the purchase of assault weapons after October 1, when the law takes effect, as long as they can prove that the sale was initiated before it took effect.

(Reporting by Ian Simpson, additional reporting by Lacey Johnson; Editing by Scott Malone and Leslie Adler)

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Michelle Obama praises Jackie Robinson movie

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Michelle Obama said Tuesday that a new movie chronicling Jackie Robinson's rise through Major League Baseball, including the racial discrimination he endured while breaking the sport's color barrier in the 1940s, left her and the president "visibly, physically moved" after they saw it over the weekend.

The film, "42," also left the couple wondering "how on Earth did (the Robinsons) live through that. How did they do it? How did they endure the taunts and the bigotry for all of that time?" she said.

Mrs. Obama commented at a workshop for a group of high school and college students who saw the movie in the White House theater. Some of the students attend a Los Angeles charter school named for Robinson and others are undergraduate scholars in a program that bears the baseball great's name.

The students also participated in a question-and-answer session with Robinson's widow, Rachel, and members of the cast and crew, including Chadwick Boseman, who plays Robinson, Harrison Ford, who stars as former Brooklyn Dodgers General Manager Branch Rickey, and director-screenwriter Brian Helgeland.

President Barack Obama held a separate screening of "42" for the cast and crew Tuesday evening.

Mrs. Obama said everyone should see the movie, which opens nationwide April 12.

"I can say with all sincerity that it was truly powerful for us," she said. "We walked away from that just visibly, physically moved by the experience of the movie, of the story," and the "raw emotion" they felt afterward.

The first lady added that she was also "struck by how far removed that way of life seems today," noting how times have changed despite progress still to be made toward eliminating racial discrimination.

"You can't imagine the baseball league not being integrated. There are no more "Whites Only" signs posted anywhere in this country. Although it still happens, it is far less acceptable for someone to yell out a racial slur while you're walking down the street," she told the students. "That kind of prejudice is simply just not something that can happen in the light of day today."

After playing for the Negro Baseball League and the International League, Robinson became Major League Baseball's first black player on April 15, 1947, batting for the Brooklyn Dodgers. His number was 42.

Barack Obama broke a similar barrier in politics by winning election in 2008 as the first black U.S. president.

Mrs. Obama said the Robinsons' story is a reminder of the hard work it takes to move a country forward.

"It reminds you how much struggle is required to make real progress and change," she said, echoing her husband.

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Rewarding groups for losing weight more effective than rewarding individuals

Apr. 1, 2013 ? A multi-institution study led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan and Carnegie Mellon University, has found that tying financial incentives to group weight loss led to significantly greater weight loss than cash awards based on an individual's success in losing weight on his or her own.

The study, which appears in the April 2 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, enrolled employees of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia who had a body mass index (BMI) of 30 to 40 kg/m2. It compared two weight-loss incentive strategies. The first strategy paid individual employees $100 per month for each month that they met their weight-loss goals. The second strategy offered groups of five people $500 per month for each month they met their goals. In the second group, employees who met their goals received the balance of money unearned by employees who did not meet their goals. At the end of the six-month study, the group cash incentive led to a weight loss that was approximately seven pounds greater than the individual cash incentive.

An estimated 86 percent of large employers are using some kind of financial incentive to encourage their employees to lose weight. "To our knowledge, our study is the only randomized trial to compare the effects of group competition-based and individual incentives for weight loss," said the study's senior author, Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD, professor of Medicine and director, Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at Penn. "These new findings open up the possibility of more effective interventions for getting people to lose weight and could apply to other areas of serious health concern, such as smoking, as well."

The greater effectiveness of the group incentive was likely tied to the opportunity to earn a reward larger than $100 for achieving a weight-loss goal, and also the competition involved in such designs. The fact that most group members did not meet their weight-loss goals in most months likely provided additional inspiration by leaving a larger reward for those who did meet their goals.

"Under the Affordable Care Act, employers will be able to offer even larger financial incentives than they do now to encourage healthy behaviors among their employees," said co-author David Asch, MD, MBA, professor of Medicine and executive director of the Penn Medicine Center for Innovation. "Our study demonstrates that how one offers the incentive is critically important. A lot of employers, insurers, and health care institutions are rolling out incentive programs now, and with a little design help they can make those programs much more effective."

The study's first author is Jeffrey Kullgren MD, MS, MPH, a former Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania who is now an assistant professor at the University of Michigan. Additional Penn co-authors were Andrea B. Troxel, ScD; Laurie A. Norton, MA; Lisa Wesby, MS; Yuanyuan Tao, MS; and Jingsan Zhu, MS, MBA.

The primary funding source for the study was the National Institute on Aging (Grant RC2103282621). Support was also provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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1. Jeffrey T. Kullgren, Andrea B. Troxel, George Loewenstein, David A. Asch, Laurie A. Norton, Lisa Wesby, Yuanyuan Tao, Jingsan Zhu, Kevin G. Volpp. Individual- Versus Group-Based Financial Incentives for Weight LossA Randomized, Controlled Trial. Annals of Internal Medicine, 2013; 158 (7): 505-514 [link]

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