Emblem of the NICS. The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) is a U.S. system for determining if prospective firearms or explosives buyers' name and birth year match those of a person who is not eligible to buy.
Paul Gray, who founded heavy-metal band Slipknot, died of a drug overdose in an Iowa motel in 2010. His doctor, Dr Daniel Baldi, faces 9 counts of involuntary manslaughter stemming from the deaths of Gray and others he prescribed drugs to.
A YOUNG dad battling the âfluâ died just 10 hours after doctors mistook deadly sepsis for a chest infection. Father-of-one Paul Hardy, 35, was referred for an x-ray after two trips to the doctor in a matter of days.