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By NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE | October 28, 2005
To avoid tissue injury or death, creatures that live in extremely cold environments need protection. That means some kind of antifreeze - proteins that prevent freezing of blood or other fluids. Antifreeze proteins are most commonly associated with saltwater fish that can survive in salt water colder than 32 degrees. But other animals have them, too. The latest is the lowly snow flea, a tiny creature found on the surface of snow. Laurie A. Graham and Peter L. Davies of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, report in Science that the flea has unique antifreeze proteins that do not resemble those found in any other known organism.
NEWS
By Sarah Schaffer and Sarah Schaffer,SUN STAFF | January 28, 2005
A federal jury last night absolved a former Anne Arundel County police officer of blame in the death of a 20-year-old man who he thought was drunk but who had consumed a fatal amount of antifreeze before his arrest. Ending a legal battle in Baltimore U.S. District Court, the jury decided after deliberating 3 1/2 hours that former Officer Charles R. Atwell had no way of knowing that Phillip Montgomery, 20, needed emergency medical treatment before he died Dec. 15, 2000, in a holding cell at an Edgewater police station.
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By Sarah Schaffer and Sarah Schaffer,SUN STAFF | January 28, 2005
A federal jury last night absolved a former Anne Arundel County police officer of blame in the death of a 20-year-old man who he thought was drunk but who had consumed a fatal amount of antifreeze before his arrest. Ending a legal battle in Baltimore U.S. District Court, the jury decided after deliberating 3 1/2 hours that former Officer Charles R. Atwell had no way of knowing that Phillip Montgomery, 20, needed emergency medical treatment before he died Dec. 15, 2000, in a holding cell at an Edgewater police station.
NEWS
By Julie Bykowicz and Julie Bykowicz,SUN STAFF | December 13, 2003
The widow of a young man who died in police custody after consuming antifreeze and not receiving medical treatment has filed a $231 million lawsuit that names Anne Arundel County, the police chief and seven other police officers as defendants. Phillip A. Montgomery, 20, died of antifreeze poisoning in lockup at a police station in Edgewater on Dec. 15, 2000. The Calvert County resident, who suffered from schizophrenia, had been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving. Anne Arundel County prosecutors never brought criminal charges in the case, but one officer was fired because officials said he violated the Police Department's operating procedures by not seeking medical attention for Montgomery.
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By Laura Barnhardt and Laura Barnhardt,SUN STAFF | December 16, 2001
Chuck Atwell was a police officer for nearly 27 years. He is the first to admit that he wasn't always as tactful as he could have been, but until last December, nothing he said ever kept him awake at night. A year ago yesterday, he arrested a Calvert County man on drunken-driving charges. Atwell phoned the man's mother to tell her that her 20-year-old son was fine and that she could come get him when he sobered up. Six hours later, police went to the woman's house to tell her that her son was dead.
NEWS
By Laura Barnhardt and Laura Barnhardt,SUN STAFF | November 25, 2001
Anne Arundel County police union leaders say a trial board finding that an officer was negligent after a drunken-driving suspect died of antifreeze poisoning in a holding cell shows that police policies are unclear. Since Charles R. Atwell was found negligent this month, more than a dozen lieutenants in search of legal protections have joined the Fraternal Order of Police, union officials said. And supervisors and union leaders are advising their officers to call for an ambulance any time there is any question whether a suspect is ill - physically or mentally.