A 9-year old Michigan girl taunted on facebook by neighbors while she suffered from a terminal disease died Wednesday.

Kathleen Edward of Trenton died from Huntington’s Disease the same genetic degenerative brain disorder that took her mother’s life in 2009.

Late 2010, 33-year-old Jennifer Petkov, who lived on the same block as Kathleen’s family, allegedly began cyberbullying the little girl. On a Facebook page under Petkov’s name, there were images of Kathleen’s mother, Laura, in the arms of the Grim Reaper and Kathleen above a set of crossbones. Neighbors also accused Petkov and her husband Scott of building a coffin, putting it on their truck and driving past the Edward home, honking the horn.

The little girl’s plight attracted attention around the world, and social media pages attacking Petkov sprang up online. The Petkovs also allegedly received death threats and had eggs thrown at their house. Jennifer Petkov later apologized to the Edward family, telling a local newspaper her actions were “ignorant.”

Professor Tanzi has been investigating the genetics of neurological disease since 1980 when he participated in the study that led to the first disease gene being identified by genetic analysis (Huntington’s Disease). Geoffrey Kempler, Prana’s Executive.

Thursday afternoon, after a 911 call was placed from her home earlier in the day actress Heather Locklear was taken to the hospital.

“Emergency response personnel responded to a medical emergency call at Ms. Locklear’s residence,”  Ventura County Sheriff’s Capt. Mike Aranda. ”Once they arrived, it was determined that Ms. Locklear needed to be transported to the hospital for further medical attention.”

Aranda told NBC News that when deputies arrived, paramedics were already administering aid to the actress.

Once emergency crews responded to the call, paramedics decided the actress needed to be transported to Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center, where she was admitted awake and responsive.

Hospital reps would not talk to people about why Locklear was receiving medical attention  but the incident has unfortunately dredged up the memory of old gossip. In March 2008, Locklear’s psychiatrist called 911, fearful that she was going to purposefully OD on pills

Though emergency workers were sent to check on her, it was just a false alarm. In June that year, Locklear revealed she was checked in at an Arizona medical facility, undergoing treatment for anxiety and depression,  though trouble followed her not long after leaving rehab. In September 2008, Locklear was arrested in DUI charges outside Santa Barbara, California.

Charges were later dismissed when she pleaded no contest to reckless driving.

The 2012 HGTV’s Dream Home is located in Utah this year.

The 2012 HGTV Dream Home is located in Midway, Utah and is up for grabs — It will go to one lucky winner later this year.

“Starting today, viewers can enter twice daily for a chance to win the spectacular 2012 HGTV Dream Home,” stated HGTV December 29.

Gov. Mitt Romney former Massachusetts and Texas Gov. Rick Perry both voiced their support in the Republican presidential debate Sunday for so-called right-to-work legislation in New Hampshire.

A bill that would have barred unions from collecting dues from nonmembers, passed the state’s Republican-controlled legislature but was vetoed by its Democratic Gov. John Lynch. Leaders of the legislature, which includes a contingent of tea-party members elected in 2010, have promised in recent days to introduce it again this month in New Hampshire.

“Right-to-work legislation makes a lot of sense for New Hampshire,” said Mr. Romney, at the debate sponsored by NBC News and Facebook.

Mr. Perry said ”I’m a right-to-work guy,”   ”I come from a right-to-work state and I will tell you, if New Hampshire wants to become a magnet for job creation in the Northeast, you pass that right-to-work legislation in this state.”

Rick Santorum former Pennsylvania Senator  said during the debate he would support a national right-to-work law. But he added that when he was in the Senate, he “didn’t vote for it because Pennsylvania’s not a right-to-work state and I didn’t want to vote for a law that would change the law in Pennsylvania.”

In Indiana, a right-to-work bill that would ban labor contracts requiring all employees to pay union dues, drew thousands of protesters to the Statehouse last week and has stalled the start of the session in the Indiana House.

Indiana House Democrats have refused to answer a roll call to prevent a vote on the measure, delaying the session scheduled to begin on Jan. 4. House Democrats are trying to get Republicans to hold more hearings on the bill and, ideally, put the measure to a referendum.

Sex offender ( Registered)  who lives in Moranbah has been fined $600 for failing to make his annual report to police.The 59-year-old human resources manager for a mining firm is a registered offender under the Australian National Child (Sex) Offenders Registry, known as ANCOR.

Sheena Hayes told the Mackay Magistrates Court, and he has to report his personal circumstances and details to police every October until 2024.

He pleaded guilty  in court to failing to report this October.he said he had work commitments and forgot.

Morrison County Sheriff Michel Wetzel said his office, in cooperation with each local police department in the county, has completed annual verification checks on each registered sex offender in Morrison County.

According to Sheriff Wetzel all offenders on the registry are checked annually. In addition,level II offenders are checked twice per year and level III offenders are checked four times per year. “It is important that we keep tabs on these people, and remind them they remain on our radar screen,” said the Sheriff.

A total of 111 Morrison County residents are on the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension’s (BCA) predatory offender registry. The vast majority of them are at risk level I (least likely to reoffend), or have not been assigned a risk level, Wetzel said.