Hangar fire hurts 12 Guardsmen

Fire erupted at a National Guard maintenance hangar Tuesday, injuring 12 Guardsmen, one seriously, officials said.

All of the injured suffered smoke inhalation, most of them while trying to remove three UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters from the hangar, Guard spokesman Sgt. Randy Harris said.

"When you've got three helicopters that have fuel in them, that could have been a very large catastrophe. That was the right decision to make to get the fuel out of the building," Harris said.

One patient was being treated in the burn unit of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, a hospital spokesman said. The other 11 were treated at hospitals and released.

Investigators think the blaze may have been caused by welding, Harris said.

Patch approved to treat depression

The first skin patch to treat depression won federal approval Tuesday, providing a novel way to administer a drug used by Parkinson's disease patients that belongs to a class of medicines rarely used as a first-choice antidepressant.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the selegiline transdermal patch, agency spokeswoman Susan Cruzan said. The drug will be marketed as Emsam, said Somerset Pharmaceuticals, which developed the drug, and Bristol-Myers Squibb, which will market it in three sizes as a once-a-day treatment for major depression.

Selegiline, approved in pill form by the FDA in 1989 to help treat Parkinson's, is a monoamine oxidase inhibitor, or MAOI. Typically, doctors prescribe MAOIs for depression only if patients don't respond to other antidepressants, including selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors such as Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil.

Police investigate girl with cocaine

Detectives were trying to determine where the girl got the drugs, which she brought to the John M. Patterson School on Monday, said police Capt. Benjamin Naish. The teacher called authorities after she discovered the drugs.

The School District of Philadelphia is waiting for the results of the police investigation before deciding how to deal with the child, spokesman Vincent Thompson said.

Also

Lead paint: A judge in Rhode Island ruled Tuesday that the state cannot seek punitive damages against three lead-paint manufacturers found liable for creating a public nuisance. The companies still must pay to clean up the mess caused by lead paint, which could cost billions of dollars.

Cuban immigrants: A federal judge in Miami ruled Tuesday that the U.S. government acted unreasonably when it sent home 15 Cubans who thought they had safely made it to the United States when their boat reached an abandoned bridge in the Florida Keys in January.

Compiled from The Associated Press