A 75-year-old Redlands man died from the mosquito-borne West Nile virus, becoming California’s second fatality linked to the illness, officials said Sunday. Morris Sternberg was admitted to a hospital July 18, and died Saturday “as a result of complications from the virus,” San Bernardino County Deputy Coroner Randy Emon said. West Nile has sickened more than 260 people across the nation this year, and resulted in six deaths, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Five of 30 supposedly rare stringed instruments bought by the New Jersey Symphony for $17 million from a man now under indictment for tax fraud are probably not authentic, The Sunday Star-Ledger of Newark reported Sunday. Five experts determined that four violins and one cello – among a collection purchased from pet products tycoon Herbert Axelrod – were not produced by the master craftsmen named by Axelrod.
Oceana and the Ocean Conservancy, ocean watchdog groups, filed a lawsuit in New Orleans to challenge new federal hook rules for longline fishermen who pursue tuna and other fish in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, contending the changes do not do enough to protect endangered and threatened species of sea turtles.
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