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MUNSTER — It’s been several years since a surveillance camera captured Dr. Promila Mehta-Paul making a bank deposit in Highland.

It’s wild how many movies have been inspired by William Friedkin’s The Exorcist, and how few have come close to emulating the unabated power of the exorcism scene. Based on the book of the same name and written for the screen by William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist tells the tragic tale of Regan MacNeil, a sweet and innocent 13-year-old girl who becomes savagely possessed by Satan and withers away tied to her bed, while her mother feverishly hunts for an answer to her daughter’s mysterious affliction. There are several iconic moments throughout the course of this legendary entry in the horror genre, but the exorcism scene itself is by far the most memorable. As Father Damien Karras and Father Lankester Merrin attempt to expel the demon eating up Regan’s insides, a series of utterly horrifying events occur. Regan vomits thick milky green liquid, utters a string of slanderous curses, speaks in Latin, and even levitates off the bed, her ripped flesh and atrophied shell floating casually above the priests’ heads as they spout prayers from their bibles. The scene cuts deep because, despite its supernatural scenario, it’s a very human story. At its core, this is a family drama about two wounded adults trying their damnedest to heal a sick child. After all, Blatty wrote this story as a way to deal with the abrupt death of his son, Peter, who died of a rare heart disease at a young age. Perhaps that’s why the copious copycats, from Stigmata to The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Last Exorcism, The Vatican Tapes, The Possession, and so on, have never quite conjured up the same gut-wrenching, deeply personal terror of the The Exorcist. —KC

So with the horror fan base expanding and mainstream interest in the genre booming, Vulture spent the past few months identifying the 100 Scares That Shaped Horror Movies, with the help of dozens of academics, historians, critics, filmmakers, and journalists. Think of it as your best at-a-glance guide to more than a century’s worth of terrifying films. From the shape-shifting creatures of Georges Méliès’s “The Haunted Castle,” to the arrival of the Universal Monsters, to the birth of the slasher, to the present-day rise of the art-house indie horror and everything in between, these scenes built the language of the genre as we understand it today — complete with the politically charged themes, incisive social commentary, and virtuoso violence that have defined horror since the very beginning.

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Even the pediatrics department was scanty, few patients were found in the wards unlike before now, where bed spaces were lobbied for just to put patients on emergency. Any one who falls sick now would even have the choice to choose whichever bed he/she wants to lie on.

RWJUH in New Brunswick is hosting a two year $60 million Emergency Department expansion project that will see state-of-the-art advancements and improved privacy, access and flow for patients. Wochit

I learned the hard way that not knowing the difference between window treatments can cost you a pretty penny. The house I grew up in had the thickest goldenrod woven drapes you can imagine. We had ivory sheers layered inside the drapes, and I can remember my grandmother cleaning the drapes routinely, twice per year in the spring and fall. Taking them off their hooks, washing them and hanging them up in the sun to dry was a big deal, and I hated those stupid drapes. I thought they were ugly, so when I inherited the house, the first thing I did was take them down. I thought I wanted to let the light in.

However, The Guardian learnt that a circular has been passed calling on the doctors to resume work because two months of the backlog salaries have been paid.

He was in high school as Europe and Asia sank into war. Men from the Harriman bank had front-row seats. Prescott Bush served on the board of the Union Banking Corporation, which was closely tied to German industrialist Fritz Thyssen, an early supporter and financier of the Nazis who became a critic and was eventually sent to a concentration camp. Averell Harriman represented President Roosevelt in Moscow and London. Robert Lovett, another partner in the firm, was right-hand man to the Secretary of War. George Bush learned more than most teenagers about world events simply by listening to his father’s table talk. Still, it was a shock when—on a December Sunday during his senior year of high school—the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor. At 17, Bush had been poised to follow his father (and grandfather, and great-grandfather) to Yale; instead, he finished high school in a rush and immediately entered training as a Navy pilot.

"A woman lay on the bare pavement under the staircase, taking a rest. Nearby was an area where waiting mothers had carved out as waiting area. A number of women, whose babies were on admission, were seen sitting or lying down on a mat or on the pavement. With the laid mats, sacks of clothes, plates, buckets etc. stacked against the wall and a woman washing clothes, it was clear that many a mother stay for days in this state."

The Lake County prosecutor’s office is seeking the death penalty against Vann, but at the request of the defense his trial has been postponed until January 25, 2016 at the earliest.

Mayo Clinic rheumatologist Dr. Eric Matteson rides off into the sunset — literally — leaving his last day on the job before retirement on a horse. Matteson grew up on a Nebraska farm. … Byron High School senior Mike Coble, a sports standout, is facing Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a rare disease with no cure that causes the body’s immune system to attack the peripheral nervous system. … A 6- to 8-inch downpour leads to road damage across parts of Fillmore County.