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US prosecutors said Merck will pay $671 million to settle claims it overcharged government health programs for 4 drugs and gave doctors fees and gifts to induce them to prescribe the drugs. The case was triggered when a sales manager filed suit in 2001 and a Louisiana doctor exposed overcharging.
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In Los Angeles a man barricaded himself in a house after telling police he had killed 3 relatives, then opened fire on a SWAT team, killing one officer and wounding another. Randall Simmons (51) was the first SWAT officer killed in the line of duty in the unit’s 41-year history.
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In Port Wentworth, Georgia, an explosion and fire at a sugar refinery owned by Imperial Sugar, based in Sugar Land, Texas, left 11 people dead. Imperial had acquired Savannah Foods & Industries, the producer of Dixie Crystals, in 1997. The acquisition doubled the size of the company, making it the largest processor and refiner of sugar in the US.
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In Kirkwood, Missouri, a gunman stormed a council meeting, yelled "Shoot the mayor!" and opened fire, critically wounding Mayor Mike Swoboda (69), killing two police officers and three city officials. Swoboda died on Sep 6. Charles Le "Cookie" Thornton, who had lost a free-speech lawsuit against the St. Louis suburb 10 days earlier, was fatally shot by law enforcers. He had claimed in the past city leaders stifled and harassed him.
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In Portsmouth, Ohio, William Michael Layne (56) stabbed his estranged wife in front of her 5th grade class and girl friend in an alley behind her home and then shot himself dead in a standoff with police. Both women were in critical condition.
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In Afghanistan a suicide car bomb targeting a NATO convoy left three soldiers lightly wounded in eastern Khost province. A bungled suicide attack hurt two civilians in southwestern Nimroz province.
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Experts said Iran's nuclear project has developed its own version of an advanced centrifuge to churn out enriched uranium much faster than its previous machines.
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1996 –
Mai Hagiwara, Japanese singer
1993 –
David Dorfman, American actor
1993 –
Philip Wiegratz, German actor
1992 –
Maimi Yajima, Japanese singer
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Rachel Sibner, American actress
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Anna Abreu, Finnish singer
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Steven Stamkos, Canadian ice hockey player
1989 –
Louisa Lytton Feb 7 British actress
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Ai Kago, Japanese singer
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Matthew Stafford, American college football player
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February, 7
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2009,
Brian Naylor (broadcaster), Australian television presenter (b. 1931)
2008,
Tamara Desni, German-born British actress (b. 1913)
2006,
Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (b. 1914)
2005,
Bob Turner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1934)
2003,
Augusto Monterroso, Guatemalan author (b. 1921)
2003,
John Reading, Mayor of Oakland, California (b. 1917)
2002,
Jack Fairman, British racing driver (b. 1913)
2001,
Dale Evans, American actress and singer (b. 1912)
2001,
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator (b. 1906)
2000,
Big Pun, Puerto Rican-American rapper (b. 1971)
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February, 7
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