Several bystanders helped capture a man fleeing from the California Highway Patrol this afternoon in Chico.

Officer Bob Boyer said he was driving south on Highway 99 just before 1 p.m. when he spotted a blue pickup speeding north near Entler Avenue.

Boyer turned around and clocked the vehicle, a Dodge Dakota, at 91 mph in a 65 mph zone. When he tried to stop it, the driver exited at the Park/Skyway off-ramp and turned east onto Skyway.

The truck went over a curb and crashed into hedges near a building housing the Bank of America and Clearwire Communications.

The driver, identified as Sammy Sofar Grijalva Lenz, ran from the crash. A customer coming out of Bank of America began chasing him, as Boyer tried to get ahead of the suspect in his patrol car.

With the help of motorists who tried to cut the suspect off, technicians at the Les Schwab Tire Center on Notre Dame, and the bank customer, the man was cornered and taken into custody.

Biogen Idec And Cardiokine Initiate Phase III Clinical Trial For ...

Biogen Idec (Nasdaq: BIIB) and Cardiokine, Inc. announced the initiation of a Phase III multi-center, randomized, placebo controlled, double-blind study of lixivaptan for congestive heart failure patients who suffer from hyponatremia, which is an electrolyte disturbance marked by low sodium levels in the blood. The trial will compare treatment with lixivaptan to placebo in approximately 650 patients in the U.S. and Europe.

Lixivaptan is an oral vasopressin V2 receptor antagonist that works by causing a decrease in renal water reabsorption (an increase in urine volume) and a decrease in urine osmolality. In prior clinical studies, lixivaptan-treated patients showed improvement in serum sodium concentrations, decreases in body weight, and increases in urine volume. The safety profile supports continued development.

Misadventures in Atlanta

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EPA Loses Federal Court Battle Over Mercury

The Environmental Protection agency must require power plants, the leading source of mercury pollution in the U.S, to better control their emissions of the dangerous toxin, a federal court ruled today. The D.C. Court of Appeals ruled that EPA violated the Clean Air Act when it removed oil and coal fired power plants from the list of sources that are subject to the Act's most stringent air pollution controls. The agency must now develop tougher standards to control mercury and other toxic pollutants from new and existing power plants.

"Today's decision is a huge victory as it requires EPA to get back to the business of protecting people's health rather than higher profits for electric utilities," said John Suttles, attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center. "As a result of this ruling, EPA will have to go back to the drawing board and follow the Clean Air Act and the advice of the nation's leading health experts to adequately protect the public from this harmful neurotoxin." SELC represents the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Public Health Association, the American Nurses Association and Physicians for Social Responsibility in the legal challenge.

US: Microsoft pioneer Weiland's estate gives US$65M for gay rights ...

The estate of Ric Weiland, a high school classmate of Microsoft Corp. founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen and one of the first five people to work at the software giant, has left US$65 million to gay rights and HIV/AIDS organizations. The bequests were announced Sunday by the Pride Foundation of Seattle, where Weiland was a board member for several years. The foundation called it the largest single bequest ever given to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender causes. Gates and Allen hired Weiland in 1975, the year they founded Microsoft. He worked as a project leader for the Microsoft Works word processing and spreadsheet software, and was a lead programmer and developer for the company's BASIC and COBOL systems, two of the first personal computing interfaces. He left Microsoft in 1988. .