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The Essential Oral Health Care Act of 2007 would also authorize grants to health coordinators and volunteer dental care to children living in underserved communities. In addition, it would offer $5,000 tax credits to dentists who donate their services to the poor.
The bill, introduced Thursday, is designed to help address the barriers many poor children face in obtaining dental treatment, as highlighted by the February death of Prince George's resident Deamonte Driver. The 12-year-old died from an infection that spread from an abscessed tooth.
-- Mary Otto
MONTGOMERY COUNTY
Boy, 8, Charged With Having Knife
An 8-year-old student has been charged with possessing a deadly weapon on school property after he brought an eight-inch serrated knife to Greencastle Elementary School in Silver Spring and talked about harming himself, students and his teacher, police said yesterday.
A school-based Montgomery County police officer responded to the school at 10:12 a.m. Thursday after the boy, whose name was not released, was observed by several students with the knife. The teacher confiscated the blade and escorted the boy to the main office to make a report. No one was harmed. The student is being charged as a juvenile.
-- Daniel de Vise
2 Md. Families Sue McDonald's
Two Maryland families are suing McDonald's Corp., alleging the fast-food chain did not disclose allergens in its food.
The lawsuits were filed Thursday afternoon in Montgomery County by the families of a 3-year-old boy from Hampstead and an 8-year-old boy from Cambridge. The families said McDonald's failed to disclose that it used wheat and dairy products as ingredients in French fries and hash browns.
Both children have severe milk allergies, and one had to be taken to a hospital after suffering anaphylactic shock in reaction to milk ingredients in the fries, Athan T. Tsimpedes, the attorney for one of the families, said.
McDonald's officials haven't commented on the lawsuit.
-- Associated Press
