Q: Did the Gwinnett County teacher whose wife passed away from a rare disease like Aimee Copeland’s receive any assistance?
—Opal Taylor, Rex
A: Donations are being accepted at www.hannahrinehart.org and there have been several fundraising events since Hannah Rinehart's death on Sept. 5. Rinehart, 32, a three-time cancer survivor, died from septic shock caused by a rare capnocytophaga bacterial infection, which is primarily found in animal saliva. Rinehart's hands and feet were amputated after she became sick in late June and she remained at Northside Hospital until her death. Coincidentally, her husband Mark Rinehart teaches at South Gwinnett High School, the same school from which Aimee Copeland graduated. Copeland had to have her hands, right foot and left leg amputated by doctors this summer to help save her from necrotizing fasciitis, a flesh-eating bacteria. Rinehart was a patient care technician in DeKalb County.
Q: Could you provide information on who or what led recent searchers to the site in Michigan to look for Jimmy Hoffa’s remains?
—Joan McClain, Dallas
A: Police in Roseville, Mich., received a tip from "an individual who saw something," Roseville Police Chief James Berlin told the Detroit Free Press. Police thought it was credible enough to investigate whether Hoffa, the Teamsters union boss who disappeared in 1975, was buried under a driveway in the town. Soil samples taken last week determined that Hoffa's remains are not there. "The samples submitted for examination showed no signs of human decomposition," Berlin told Reuters.
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