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(CNN) -- Ivo Josipovic won the runoff election Sunday for Croatia's presidency, a spokesman for the election commission told CNN.

Social Democratic Party candidate Josipovic won 60.3 percent of the vote, or about 1.3 million of the nearly 2.3 million votes cast, said spokesman Hrvoje Sadaric of the Croatian State Election Commission.

Milan Bandic, an independent and eight-year mayor of the Croatian capital of Zagreb, garnered 39.71 percent of the vote, or just over 880,000 votes. He was once a member of Josipovic's party, Sadaric said.

Slightly more than half of voting eligible Croatians voted in the runoff and more than 99 percent of votes had been counted, Sadaric said.

Josipovic, 52, a law professor and classical music composer, had earlier garnered the most votes in the first round of voting. His campaign focused on cleaning up corruption in government.

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(CNN) -- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged businessman Robert Allen Stanford with orchestrating an $8 billion fraudulent investment program.

Stanford presents a trophy to the winners of his Twenty20 cricket tournament in November 2008.

Stanford is the tycoon who bankrolled the Twenty20 Super Series cricket competition in the West Indies last year.

The Texan has also contributed millions of dollars to the West Indies Cricket Board in an attempt to boost their flagging fortunes.

Rose Romero, Regional Director of the SEC's Fort Worth Regional Office in Texas, said, "We are alleging a fraud of shocking magnitude that has spread its tentacles throughout the world."

Stanford allegedly fabricated historical return data to prey on investors. The SEC says the investigation is on-going.

Reuters.com reports three of Stanford's companies are involved in the SEC probe including Texas-based Stanford Group Co, Antigua-based Stanford International Bank and investment adviser Stanford Capital Management.

The SEC Web site said Stanford International Bank CFO James Davis and Stanford Financial Group chief investment officer Laura Pendergest-Holt also face charges.

It added that U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor granted a temporary restraining order freezing the defendants' assets and appointed a receiver to marshal those assets, as part of a request for emergency relief for the benefit of defrauded investors.

The SEC's complaint alleges that the fraud centered on a program in which Stanford International Bank promised "improbable and unsubstantiated high interest rates."

SIB allegedly acted through a network of Stanford Group Company financial advisers to sell approximately $8 billion of "certificates of deposit" to investors.

The bank boasted a unique investment strategy that it said allowed it to receive double-digit returns on its investments for the past 15 years, the SEC said.

Early Tuesday, CNBC reported federal marshals were seen entering the offices of Stanford Financial Group in Houston. Reuters reported an eyewitness saw a sign taped to the window stating the company is now "under the management of a receiver."

Stanford Financial Group could not immediately be reached for comment.

According to the SEC's complaint, a close circle of Stanford's family and friends operates SIB.

Its investment committee, responsible for managing the bank's multi-billion dollar portfolio of assets, includes Stanford; Stanford's father, who lives in Mexia, Texas; another Mexia resident with business experience in cattle ranching and car sales; Pendergest-Holt, who had no financial or securities experience prior to joining SFG; and Davis, Stanford's college roommate.

The SEC alleges an additional scheme relating to $1.2 billion in sales.

Stanford Group Company advisers are accused of using materially false historical performance data to create a mutual fund program called Stanford Allocation Strategy, the release said.

According to the complaint, the false data helped grow the program from less than $10 million in 2004 to more than $1 billion, generating SGC - and ultimately, Stanford - about $25 million in 2007 and 2008.

In the UK, the Press Association news agency reported that the England and Wales Cricket Board has ceased negotiations with Stanford, who was expected to become a major backer of a proposed tournament in England from 2010.

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(CNN) -- U.S. President Barack Obama called Pakistan's president Sunday to express condolences over the airstrike that killed 24 soldiers near the Afghanistan border more than a week ago, the White House said in a statement.

"The president made clear that this regrettable incident was not a deliberate attack on Pakistan and reiterated the United States' strong commitment to a full investigation," the statement said. "The two presidents reaffirmed their commitment to the U.S.-Pakistan bilateral relationship, which is critical to the security of both nations, and they agreed to stay in close touch."

The conversation between Obama and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari was the latest bid to address strained relations between the two nations after a NATO airstrike killed the Pakistani troops on November 26.

After the attack, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told CNN that Pakistan was re-evaluating its relationship with the United States.

NATO later called the subsequent mass casualties caused by the strike "tragic (and) unintended." U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta have called the incident a "tragedy" and offered condolences, though Washington has not issued a formal apology.

The issue of U.S. and fellow NATO forces coming into Pakistan has been an especially sensitive topic in that country since May, when U.S. commandos killed then al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad without Pakistani leaders' consent

During an exclusive interview last week with CNN, Gilani said the country wants to maintain its relationship with the United States as long as there is mutual respect and respect for Pakistani sovereignty.

Asked directly if Pakistan is getting that respect, the prime minister said: "At the moment (it is) not."

"If I can't protect the sovereignty of my country, how can we say that this is mutual respect and mutual interest?" he asked rhetorically.

Pakistan has taken several steps aimed at NATO since the attack.

That includes an announcement Friday, by Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, that NATO and International Security Assistance Force supplies could no longer be routed through Pakistan. The country has served a vital supply route for allied forces who have been fighting for more than a decade in neighboring Afghanistan.

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(CNN) -- A Muslim teenager from Ohio says her father threatened to kill her because she converted to Christianity.

Rifqa Bary claims her father wants her dead after she converted to Christianity.

Rifqa Bary, 17, ran away from her family in Columbus, Ohio, in July and took refuge in the central Florida home of the Rev. Blake Lorenz with the Global Revolution Church in Orlando.

The teen heard of the pastor and his church through a prayer group on Facebook. The girl's parents reported her missing to Columbus police, who found her two weeks later in Florida through cell phone records.

The teenager, in a sworn affidavit, claims her father, Mohamed Bary, 47, was pressured by the mosque the family attends in Ohio to "deal with the situation." In the court filing, Rifqa Bary stated her father said, "If you have this Jesus in your heart, you are dead to me!" The teenager claims her father added, "I will kill you!"

Mohamed Bary told CNN a lot of false information has been given and "we wouldn't do her harm." He knew his daughter was involved with Christian organizations.

"I have no problem with her practicing any faith," he said, but Bary admitted he would have preferred his daughter to practice the Muslim faith first.

Although Mohamed Bary said he did not expect his daughter to run away, Rifqa Bary was placed in foster care by an Orlando judge in August while the Florida Department of Children and Family investigated the threat allegations against the parents.

In a court filing Monday, John Stemberger, Rifqa Bary's attorney and president of the Christian advocacy organization Florida Family Policy Council, accused the parents' Ohio mosque of having ties to terrorism and radical Islam. The Noor Islamic Cultural Center has denied the allegations.

Stemberger told CNN he agreed with his client that she would be killed by radical Muslims if she is returned to Ohio.

"She is a person who is ripe for apostate killing or mercy killing. I'm not going to let my client slip away in the night by going back," said Stemberger.

Roger Weeden, the mother's attorney in Florida, said the filing had no credible evidence but instead was meant "just to inflame the community and the court." Weeden said he believes the teen's attorney is trying to create an atmosphere of fear and intimidation.

The teen's attorney said his client has endured a history of abuse from her family. Stemberger said the young girl was forced to wear the Muslim headscarf called a hijab and was punched in the face by her father for being ashamed while wearing it.

Stemberger is asking the court to keep Rifqa Bary in the custody of the state of Florida until she turns 18 in a year.

Mohamed Bary, who is not a United States citizen, said he can't believe all the false allegations and the bad image caused by the situation.

"We are not bad people," Bary said. "We are not like that, we are normal."

The mother's attorney said the teenager was a normal girl, a cheerleader in Ohio, and what Muslim extremist would allow his daughter be a cheerleader?

At a court hearing scheduled for Thursday in Orlando, the parents will have an opportunity to respond to the allegations against them. Their attorney said the parents will deny all allegations.

After the court hearing, the judge may force all the parties involved into mediation, followed by an adjudication hearing.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A mother suspected of killing her four children, whose decomposing bodies were found in her home, told police they were possessed by demons, according to court records.

Banita Jacks, 33, is charged with three counts of felony murder and one count of first-degree murder while armed.

The victims, who range in age from 5 to 17 years, are thought to be her daughters. Their bodies were found when U.S. marshals served an eviction notice at Jacks' apartment in southeast Washington, D.C.

Court documents say Jacks identified the victims as her daughters Brittany Jacks, 17; Tatianna Jacks, 11; N'kiah Fogle, 6; and Aja Fogle, 5.

Earlier Thursday, Mayor Adrian Fenty said the bodies' decomposition has hindered their identification, although they were believed to be Jacks' children.

Marie Pierre-Louis, Washington's chief medical examiner, said all four of the girls had been dead for at least 15 days.

Jacks is being held without bail. Her next court appearance is scheduled for February 11. If convicted, she could receive a maximum sentence of life in prison.

Jacks told police that her daughters were possessed by demons and that each died in her sleep during a seven- to 10-day period, court documents said. Aja died first, she told police, then N'kiah, Tatianna and Brittany.

"She said that as the first three younger children died, she placed them side by side in the room in which they died," according to court documents.

She reported that all the deaths occurred sometime before the electricity in her house was disconnected, which records show was September 5, 2007, documents said.

Jacks said she never tried to call authorities to remove the bodies "because she didn't trust either agency and because she thought if she notified emergency personnel, that would cause her more problems," the documents said.

She also said she had not fed her daughters food "for a substantial period of time prior to their deaths."

No one besides herself or the children had been in the home since May 2007, Jacks said.

Pierre-Louis ruled the deaths homicides, according to a court document.  Watch Pierre-Louis describe the condition of the bodies Â»

Preliminary findings are that Brittany was stabbed to death and that Aja died from blunt-force impact to the back of her head and possible ligature strangulation.

Both Tatianna and N'kiah also had "apparent ligature evidence" on their necks that was "somewhat more defined than that noted on Aja Fogle's neck," court documents said.

However, the documents said, further tests are needed to confirm the causes of the deaths.

All four children were wearing white T-shirts and were discovered in unfurnished bedrooms -- three in one and a fourth in another, the documents said.

"What appeared to be a metal steak knife" was found next to the fourth. Also, the fourth body was found in a bedroom with hardwood floors, and a T-shirt with duct tape was found at the bottom of the bedroom door, filling the gap between the floor and the bottom of the door when it was closed.

A witness told police they saw Jacks treat Brittany differently from her other children, sometimes withholding food from her while feeding the others, court documents said.

In addition, the witness said Jacks once drove Brittany to Jacks' mother's home in Waldorf, Maryland, and left her there. Jacks' mother was not home, the witness said, and Brittany was left on the porch unattended for more than 10 hours.

City officials are trying to determine how the children could have been dead for at least two weeks without anyone noticing their absence. Fenty said the city had determined that Jacks' children were "in and out of the public school system" and that the child welfare caseworkers and the metropolitan police had each had at least "one contact" with the family.  Watch Fenty explain how a "routine" eviction became a death investigation Â»

"There may be other contacts with the government ... in the case of the Jacks family," he said.

He did not divulge further details.

"Somebody should have known that these young people were not in school or someplace," Councilman Marion Barry said Wednesday. The former Washington mayor represents the ward in which the bodies were found. E-mail to a friend

CNN's Larry Lazo contributed to this report.

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question: How many counts of felony murder does Jacks face?

answer: three

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question: How old is Jacks?

answer: 33,

question: What is the number of counts of felony murder Jacks faces?

answer: three

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question: What are the counts facing the mother?

answer: first-degree murder while armed.

text: first-degree murder while armed.

question: What are officials trying to determine?

answer: how the children could have been dead for at least two weeks without anyone noticing their absence.

text: how the children could have been dead for at least two weeks without anyone noticing their absence.

question: What did Mother Banita Jacks tell police?

answer: they were possessed by demons,

text: they were possessed by demons,

question: Who is the mother?

answer: Banita Jacks,

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question: What is the name of the mother who told police her children died in their sleep?

answer: Banita Jacks,

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question: What is the age of the mother?

answer: 33,

question: Who told police that children died in their sleep?

answer: Banita Jacks,

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question: How many children were stabbed to death?

answer: four

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London, England (CNN) -- The X-ray machine was Wednesday named the most important scientific invention, in a poll marking the centenary of the Science Museum in London.

Almost 50,000 people voted in the museum or online on a shortlist of ten discoveries and inventions from past centuries in science, technology and engineering.

The X-ray machine, which was discovered in 1895 and revolutionized how doctors detected disease and injury, struck a chord with most voters who singled it out for having made the greatest impact on the past, present and future.

It gathered one fifth of the votes( 9581 votes) followed by the discoveries of penicillin and the DNA double helix structure.

Katie Maggs, associate curator of medicine at the Science Museum, told CNN that she was "pleasantly surprised" with the results, saying she "wondered whether the therapeutic benefit of penicillin might just edge in front -- or perhaps the Apollo 10 capsule as visitors find space travel so inspirational as the ultimate test of technology."

Maggs attributed the X-ray machine's popularity to the wide impact it has on people's everyday life, from the very first steps of a medical diagnosis to security control at airports.

"People are just fascinated with seeing inside their bodies --- even today. It has fundamentally changed the way we see and understand our world -- but particularly our bodies.

"But I also think visitors are aware of the immense and various benefits x-rays have brought -- revolutionizing medical diagnosis and therapy but also astronomy and material and chemical science -- it was x-rays that enabled us to discover the structure of DNA after all!"

X-rays were discovered in November 1895 by German physicist Wilhelm RÃ¶ntgen.

The Science Museum also houses the Reynolds machine, which was built by a father and son John and Russell Reynolds, months after RÃ¶ntgen announced his discovery.  They were so inspired by the news that they started constructing the equipment in their own home.

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Baghdad (CNN) -- Three security contractors, two of them American veterans and one from Fiji, have been freed in Iraq almost three weeks after they were detained by the Iraqi Army, U.S. Rep. Peter King said Wednesday.

The men, who were working for a security firm, were arrested by Iraqi Army forces in Mahmudiyah on December 9 but were not charged with any offense, said King, a New York Republican.

"I am pleased that these three men have been released after having been detained," King said. "With the unfortunate and clearly deteriorating security situation in Iraq and with al Qaeda in Iraq still very active, these men were in increasing danger with each passing day."

King said he got involved after being contacted by the wife of one of the men, Army veteran Alex Antiohos of Long Island, New York.

The other two contractors are Jonas March of Savannah, Georgia, and Kevin Fisher of Fiji, he said.

The congressman asked the U.S. State Department for help and wrote to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to appeal for their release, he said in a statement.

King said the three men were detained because the Iraqi military "did not like the 'mission request authorization' paperwork that had been issued by the Iraqi Ministry of Interior."

The United States is still negotiating with the Iraqi government about whether U.S. contractors will be granted any diplomatic protections under Iraqi law. The final U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq 10 days ago, after a war that lasted almost nine years.

CNN's Adam Levine contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- Seven states and two organizations have sued the Bush administration in an attempt to block a federal regulation that would further protect health care workers who refuse to perform abortions or other medical procedures because of religious or moral reasons.

A rule protecting the rights of health care providers who refuse to participate in certain procedures is under fire.

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal filed a lawsuit Thursday on behalf of his state, California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon and Rhode Island.

Blumenthal said the regulation would put women's health care at risk and would undercut state contraception laws.

"On its way out, the Bush administration has left a ticking legal time bomb set to explode literally the day of the inaugural and blow apart vital constitutional rights and women's health care," Blumenthal said in a statement. "Women's health may be endangered -- needlessly and unlawfully -- if this rule is allowed to stand."

He said the regulation "intentionally shrouds" abortion in "new and unnecessary ambiguity," encouraging individuals to define it and to "deny virtually all forms of contraceptions, even emergency contraception to rape victims."

The Planned Parenthood Federation of America and American Civil Liberties Union, which was acting on behalf of the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association, also filed separate suits Thursday.

The Department of Health and Human Services said the regulation would allow the federal government to withhold federal funds for state and local governments, health plans and health care facilities that do not follow existing federal laws that ban discrimination against doctors and other health workers who refuse to participate in procedures such as sterilizations or abortions or to make referrals for such procedures.

"We have not had an opportunity to review the lawsuits and we will respond to the court on any pending litigation," department spokeswoman Rebecca Ayers said in an e-mail. "The department followed appropriate procedures to put the regulation in place and the regulation is fully supported by law."

The department promulgated the rule last month.

"Doctors and other health care providers should not be forced to choose between good professional standing and violating their conscience," Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said in a statement then. "This rule protects the right of medical providers to care for their patients in accord with their conscience."

The department has said that it believes the public and health care providers are unaware of the federal anti-discrimination laws.

"Many health care providers routinely face pressure to change their medical practice -- often in direct opposition to their personal convictions," said the department's assistant secretary of health, Adm. Joxel Garcia, in a statement in December.

"During my practice as an OB-GYN, I witnessed this firsthand. Health care providers shouldn't have to check their consciences at the hospital door. Fortunately, Congress enacted several laws to that end, but too many are unaware these protections exist."

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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Dangerous cocktails of prescription drugs were pumped into Anna Nicole Smith "almost to the point of stupefaction" and eventually led to her death, California Attorney General Jerry Brown said Friday.

Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend Howard K. Stern was among those charged Thursday.

Brown called Smith's longtime partner and attorney Howard K. Stern the "principal enabler" in a conspiracy with two doctors for giving the "known addict" thousands of prescription pills.

Stern and a doctor were jailed on charges of conspiring to furnish drugs before her death in 2007, authorities said.

"Stern and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor were arrested and later released from a Los Angeles County jail Thursday night after each posted a $20,000 bond, a police spokesman said.

Dr. Khristine Eroshevich also faces charges and is expected to turn herself in Monday, authorities said.

The doctors and Stern devised a plan to use fake names so Smith could be prescribed "thousands of pills," Brown said.

Her doctors knew she was addicted and gave her drugs "excessively," Brown said.

"The quantity of the drugs, the variety of the drugs, the combination at any given point and her continuing to use that; that, to a professional, is clear evidence of addiction," Brown said.

"These cocktails of methadone and antidepressants and sleeping pills and Xanax, you put all that into a cocktail, it explodes and can cause death, injury and permanent morbidity and disability," he said.  Watch Brown speak to the media Â»

Brown said he hoped the charges send a loud and clear message.

"Doctors do not have a license to pump innocent and often vulnerable people full of dangerous chemicals," he said.

Smith, 39, was pronounced dead February 8, 2007, after being found unconscious in her hotel room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino near Hollywood, Florida.

The former Playboy playmate and reality TV star died from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs, a coroner said. Several prescription medications -- both in Smith's and Stern's names -- were found in the room after her death.

Officials said prescription and over-the-counter drugs were found in Smith's system, including three antidepressant or anti-anxiety drugs. Also found in toxicology testing was human growth hormone and chloral hydrate, a sleep medication, officials said.

Stern and Kapoor, both 40, and Eroshevich, 61, each were charged with eight felonies, including conspiring to furnish controlled substances, unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance and obtaining fraudulent prescriptions from June 2004 to January 2007 -- only weeks before Smith's death.

Kapoor and Eroshevich also were each charged with obtaining a prescription for opiates by "fraud, deceit or misrepresentation." And each was charged with one count of obtaining a prescription for opiates by giving a false name or address, according to the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office.

Smith was buried in the Bahamas on March 2, 2007, next to the grave of her son, Daniel, who had died in September 2006, days after the birth of her daughter, Dannielynn.

Brown said his office will aggressively target California doctors who over-prescribe dangerous drugs.

"People think those drug dealers on the street corners are the only threat," he said. "As a matter of fact, people in white smocks and pharmacies and with their medical degrees are a growing threat, and we aim to curtail it and curb it in the best way we can."

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text: jailed

text: on

text: charges

text: of

text: conspiring

text: to

text: furnish

text: drugs

text: before

text: her

text: death

text: in

text: authorities

text: said

text: Stern

text: and

text: Dr.

text: Sandeep

text: Kapoor

text: were

text: arrested

text: and

text: later

text: released

text: from

text: a

text: Los

text: Angeles

text: County

text: jail

text: Thursday

text: night

text: after

text: each

text: posted

text: a

text: bond

text: a

text: police

text: spokesman

text: said

text: Dr.

text: Khristine

text: Eroshevich

text: also

text: faces

text: charges

text: and

text: is

text: expected

text: to

text: turn

text: herself

text: in

text: Monday

text: authorities

text: said

text: The

text: doctors

text: and

text: Stern

text: devised

text: a

text: plan

text: to

text: use

text: fake

text: names

text: so

text: Smith

text: could

text: be

text: prescribed

text: thousands

text: of

text: pills

text: Brown

text: said

text: Her

text: doctors

text: knew

text: she

text: was

text: addicted

text: and

text: gave

text: her

text: drugs

text: excessively

text: Brown

text: said

text: The

text: quantity

text: of

text: the

text: drugs

text: the

text: variety

text: of

text: the

text: drugs

text: the

text: combination

text: at

text: any

text: given

text: point

text: and

text: her

text: continuing

text: to

text: use

text: that

text: that

text: to

text: a

text: professional

text: is

text: clear

text: evidence

text: of

text: addiction

text: Brown

text: said

text: These

text: cocktails

text: of

text: methadone

text: and

text: antidepressants

text: and

text: sleeping

text: pills

text: and

text: Xanax

text: you

text: put

text: all

text: that

text: into

text: a

text: cocktail

text: it

text: explodes

text: and

text: can

text: cause

text: death

text: injury

text: and

text: permanent

text: morbidity

text: and

text: disability

text: he

text: said

text: Watch

text: Brown

text: speak

text: to

text: the

text: media

text: Â

text: Brown

text: said

text: he

text: hoped

text: the

text: charges

text: send

text: a

text: loud

text: and

text: clear

text: message

text: Doctors

text: do

text: not

text: have

text: a

text: license

text: to

text: pump

text: innocent

text: and

text: often

text: vulnerable

text: people

text: full

text: of

text: dangerous

text: chemicals

text: he

text: said

text: Smith

text: was

text: pronounced

text: dead

text: February

text: after

text: being

text: found

text: unconscious

text: in

text: her

text: hotel

text: room

text: at

text: the

text: Seminole

text: Hard

text: Rock

text: Hotel

text: Casino

text: near

text: Hollywood

text: Florida

text: The

text: former

text: Playboy

text: playmate

text: and

text: reality

text: TV

text: star

text: died

text: from

text: an

text: accidental

text: overdose

text: of

text: prescription

text: drugs

text: a

text: coroner

text: said

text: Several

text: prescription

text: medications

text: both

text: in

text: Smith

text: 's

text: and

text: Stern

text: 's

text: names

text: were

text: found

text: in

text: the

text: room

text: after

text: her

text: death

text: Officials

text: said

text: prescription

text: and

text: over

text: the

text: counter

text: drugs

text: were

text: found

text: in

text: Smith

text: 's

text: system

text: including

text: three

text: antidepressant

text: or

text: anti

text: anxiety

text: drugs

text: Also

text: found

text: in

text: toxicology

text: testing

text: was

text: human

text: growth

text: hormone

text: and

text: chloral

text: hydrate

text: a

text: sleep

text: medication

text: officials

text: said

text: Stern

text: and

text: Kapoor

text: both

text: and

text: Eroshevich

text: each

text: were

text: charged

text: with

text: eight

text: felonies

text: including

text: conspiring

text: to

text: furnish

text: controlled

text: substances

text: unlawfully

text: prescribing

text: a

text: controlled

text: substance

text: and

text: obtaining

text: fraudulent

text: prescriptions

text: from

text: June

text: to

text: January

text: only

text: weeks

text: before

text: Smith

text: 's

text: death

text: Kapoor

text: and

text: Eroshevich

text: also

text: were

text: each

text: charged

text: with

text: obtaining

text: a

text: prescription

text: for

text: opiates

text: by

text: fraud

text: deceit

text: or

text: misrepresentation

text: And

text: each

text: was

text: charged

text: with

text: one

text: count

text: of

text: obtaining

text: a

text: prescription

text: for

text: opiates

text: by

text: giving

text: a

text: false

text: name

text: or

text: address

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: Los

text: Angeles

text: District

text: Attorney

text: 's

text: Office

text: Smith

text: was

text: buried

text: in

text: the

text: Bahamas

text: on

text: March

text: next

text: to

text: the

text: grave

text: of

text: her

text: son

text: Daniel

text: who

text: had

text: died

text: in

text: September

text: days

text: after

text: the

text: birth

text: of

text: her

text: daughter

text: Dannielynn

text: Brown

text: said

text: his

text: office

text: will

text: aggressively

text: target

text: California

text: doctors

text: who

text: over

text: prescribe

text: dangerous

text: drugs

text: People

text: think

text: those

text: drug

text: dealers

text: on

text: the

text: street

text: corners

text: are

text: the

text: only

text: threat

text: he

text: said

text: As

text: a

text: matter

text: of

text: fact

text: people

text: in

text: white

text: smocks

text: and

text: pharmacies

text: and

text: with

text: their

text: medical

text: degrees

text: are

text: a

text: growing

text: threat

text: and

text: we

text: aim

text: to

text: curtail

text: it

text: and

text: curb

text: it

text: in

text: the

text: best

text: way

text: we

text: can

question: What does the Attorney General call Howard K. Stern?

answer: "principal enabler"

text: "principal enabler"

question: The three are accused of what?

answer: charges of conspiring to furnish drugs before her death in 2007,

text: charges of conspiring to furnish drugs before her death in 2007,

question: What was Stern role in the conspiracy ?

answer: "principal enabler"

text: "principal enabler"

question: How many charges are Stern, Kapoor and Eroshevich facing ?

answer: eight felonies,

text: eight felonies,

question: Who was drugged "almost to the point of stupefaction"?

answer: Anna Nicole

text: Anna Nicole