UM Health System settles drug violations for $4.3 million
ANN ARBOR (AP) — U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider says the University of Michigan Health System has agreed to pay $4.3 million in the nation’s largest settlement of its kind involving allegations of the diversion of opioids.
Schneider says the deal settles an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration that began after a nurse suffered a fatal overdose and an anesthesiology resident also overdosed on stolen opioids, including fentanyl, in December 2013.
He says the DEA found several violations of the Controlled Substances Act.
They included not securing DEA registrations for 15 off-site ambulatory care locations throughout Ann Arbor and southeast Michigan that received narcotics from the main hospital’s pharmacy and dispensed them to patients.
They also included “significant” record-keeping violations.
Former gymnastics coach denies charges in Nassar scandal
LANSING (AP) — A former Michigan State University women’s gymnastics coach who’s charged with lying to investigators in the Larry Nassar sexual-assault scandal has appeared in court.
Kathie Klages appeared by video Thursday from a police lockup in Lansing and was ordered to post $500 to be released.
Klages is accused of denying that gymnasts had ever complained of assaults by Nassar. Authorities say two teens complained to her back in 1997. Defense attorney Mary Chartier says Klages denies the charges and will fight them.
Nassar was the doctor for Michigan State’s women's gymnastics team. He also treated other gymnasts in the Lansing area and Olympians at USA Gymnastics. He’s been sentenced to decades in prison for sexual assault and child pornography crimes.
Bear wanders into hotel that inspired ‘The Shining’
ESTES PARK, Colo. (AP) — A black bear wandered the lobby of the Colorado hotel that inspired Stephen King to write "The Shining."
A Stanley Hotel spokesman told KDVR-TV that 300 guests were asleep as the bruin figured out how to open the door and climbed over furniture. A front desk supervisor captured video of the romp.
There was no damage, but the furniture got rearranged before the bear walked out of the lower level door.
The hotel in Estes Park opened in 1909. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
King wrote “The Shining” after he and his wife stayed at The Stanley in 1974. The 1980 horror film was not shot there.
Rare translucent lobster caught, thrown back
STONINGTON, Maine (AP) — A Maine fisherman says he caught a rare, nearly see-through “ghost lobster," then threw the crustacean back into the ocean because it was too small to keep.
Mike Billings recently hauled in the lobster off the coast of Stonington. The Portland Press Herald reports the lobster’s unique coloration is likely caused by a genetic condition that results in the partial loss of pigmentation.
Billings says he took pictures of the lobster, and then threw it back into the ocean.
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