Volume XX No.2: January 9, 2015

That was fast. For a couple weeks we caught a glimpse of a private market response to terrorism insurance. But no more. Wednesday the House renewed the federal government’s expired Terrorism Risk Insurance Program (TRIP). The Senate quickly followed suit and it’s set for the President’s signature. While it’s tempting to applaud swift Congressional action, in this instance inaction would have been best.

Newswise (JANUARY 7, 2015) — In a surprising paradox, the male hormone testosterone, generally thought to be a feeder of prostate cancer, has been found to suppress some advanced prostate cancers and also may reverse resistance to testosterone-blocking drugs used to treat prostate cancer.

The finding, by scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, is reported in the Jan. 7 issue of Science Translational Medicine.

Medical oncologist Samuel Denmeade, M.D., who led the small study of 16 patients with metastatic prostate cancer, warns that the timing of testosterone treatment used in his research is critical and difficult to determine, and says men should not try to self-medicate their cancers with testosterone supplements available over the counter.

PRESS RELEASE

GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP (JANUARY 9 2015)–Michael Rodriguez (DOB 5/25/89), of 369 Delsea Drive., Malaga NJ was arrested Thursday (1/8) and charged with assault on his eight-month-old daughter that resulted in a skull fracture, as well as a retinal hemorrhage indicative of a child who has been shaken.

Rodriguez was taken into custody by Det. Bryn Wilden of the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office and Det. Warren Rivell of the Franklin Township Police Department.

He is being held in default of $100,000 bail.

By Andrew Staub | PA Independent

State lawmakers took their oath of office Tuesday, solemnly promising to uphold the U.S. and Pennsylvania constitutions.

But it shouldn’t stop there, State Rep. John Lawrence, R-Chester says. They should swear to something else, too: that their pee is clean.

LINDENWOLD NJ (January 9, 2015)–Camden County Prosecutor Mary Eva Colalillo and Lindenwold Police Chief Thomas Brennan reported two men have been charged in connection with a Lindenwold shooting.

by Jim Kouri/ Law Enforcement Examiner

One of the key players in the creation and implementation of cybersecurity protocols for President Barack
Obama\’s \”signature legislation,\” the Affordable Care Act of 2010, will be spending the next two-and-a-half decades in a federal prison cell after a conviction for trafficking in Internet child pornography.Timothy DeFoggi, who served as the acting director of cybersecurity at Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the disgraced Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, was told by a judge on Monday that he\’ll serve the next 25 years in federal prison for kiddie pornography dissemination. DeFoggi was convicted by a federal jury on Aug. 26, 2014, after only a four-day trial in Omaha, Nebraska.

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Donald Norcross (D-NJ) has been selected to serve on the House Armed Services Committee for the 114th Congress. The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) is responsible for funding the Department of Defense and the United States Armed forces, having jurisdiction over military operations and defense policy. Furthermore, the Committee is responsible for overseeing a number of programs under the Department of Energy relating to national security.