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Impacts from the fire on the area’s wildlife include potential starvation from lack of food, as well as danger from large-scale smoke inhalation. According to a review published in Environmental ...

A former co-ordinator at the home-care organization overseeing Florence Girard's care says interactions with the woman's caretaker grew more challenging before Girard's starvation death in 2018.

The caregiver convicted for her part in the starvation death of Florence Girard says she wouldn't have gone into home care had she known how little support would be given to her. Astrid Dahl also ...

While it is true that these miners were engaged in illegal mining activities, driven by desperation and extreme poverty, their actions do not justify condemnation to death by starvation,” said ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Rescuers continued retrieving bodies Wednesday from an abandoned South African gold mine with hundreds more ...

Astrid Dahl was supposed to be caring for Florence Girard when the 54-year-old woman died of malnourishment and starvation in October 2018, weighing only 50.6 pounds. On Tuesday, Dahl testified ...

More than 100 people are believed to have died from starvation or dehydration, with at least 24 bodies and 34 survivors being brought out of the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in the town of Stilfontein ...

Florence Girard’s caregiver has told a British Columbia coroner’s inquest she was deterred from getting help before Girard starved to death by policies about respecting the rights of people ...

The official cause of death was “malnourishment and starvation.” Dahl was convicted of failing to provide the necessaries of life in connection with Girard’s death. Girard’s sister ...

Florence Girard was so small when she died that she "looked like a child" in her casket, her sister told a British Columbia coroner's inquest into the death of the woman. Sharon Bursey told the ...

Florence Girard was so small when she died that she “looked like a child” in her coffin, her sister told a B.C. inquest into the death of the woman. Sharon Bursey told the coroner’s jury in ...