- IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 11:56 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsPolice covering for their own.Las Vegas Police have agreed to pay a record $1.48 million to settle a federal lawsuit that accused officers of giving special treatment to an officer's wife after she was involved in a fatal bicycle accident 13 years ago, according to an Associated Press news report published in the Las Vegas Review Journal.The driver, Janet Wagner, wife of Police Officer David...
- IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 11:55 PM |
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MiscellaneousIt's not a million dollar question. If the number of pet owners that we have talked with are any indication, thousands of pets will eventually fall sick or die as a result of the tainted pet food sold by Canada-based Menu Foods. To many families, whose grief for the loss of a pet is not much different than the loss of a loved one, in their minds, they deserve damages for that pain and suffering...
- IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 11:54 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsA furor over the a new Merck painkiller that is "just like Vioxx" has spurred the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, according to an article in The Boston Globe.The article says that some analysts are scratching their heads at Merck & Co.'s plan to sell a new painkiller that is not much different than Vioxx, the blockbuster drug it pulled from the market in 2004 after several said that it...
- IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 11:45 PM |
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Motorcycle AccidentsPolice still don't know what caused the car accident that killed 17-year-old Kevin Normington earlier this month, according to an article in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin.Those who knew the popular Bonita High School student have grasped for answers about his death as speculation has mounted over whether alcohol or a missed stop sign could be to blame. Investigators, however, say it is still...
- IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 11:44 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsThe federal government plans to issue requirements next month that new vehicles include anti-rollover technology, officials said Thursday, according to a news report in the Los Angeles Times Friday. Nicole Nason, administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, told a congressional budget panel that electronic stability control technology would be mandated on all new...
- IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 11:34 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsHe's charged with two counts of vehicular manslaugher. A man who triggered a January car crash in Rialto that claimed the lives of two teen girls was captured in Kentucky and is expected to be returned to California soon, according to an article in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (http://www.dailybulletin.com/search/ci_5553373)David Ponce Ledezma, 21, of Colton, who is in the U.S. Army and was...
- IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 11:33 PM |
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MiscellaneousA south Sacramento pastor accused of sexually assaulting a teenage boy earlier this month told reporters that he is "innocent" and that "God will help uncover the truth," according to an interview published in The Sacramento Bee."I have no idea why I'm here," Frederick Dew told a reporter from behind a glass partition at the Sacramento County jail. "I have just been praying and just believing in...
- IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 11:30 PM |
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Tractor-Trailer Accidents5000 people are killed in truck-related accidents every year.When that chartered bus, carrying the baseball team from Ohio's Bluffton University, went over a Georgia highway overpass recently, 6 baseball players on that bus died, and 29 were injured, but Danny Lloyd escaped-even though the chartered bus hit his truck. At 57, Danny Lloyd, a retired, disabled, Vietnam veteran has experienced a lot...
- IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 11:26 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsBills designed to prevent E. coli contamination of spinach and other leafy green vegetables narrowly cleared a key legislative committee over the objection of farm groups, according to a Business Week article.The Senate Agriculture Committee approved three bills this week that would impose tougher standards on growers who cltivate spinach, lettuce, sprouts and other leafy vegetables. The state...
- IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 11:26 PM |
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Nursing Home & Elder AbuseThe agency that oversees California nursing homes has fined a Hemet facility $75,000 in connection with a patient's death. ManorCare Health Services in Hemet received an AA citation, which is the most severe under state law, on March 13, the article said. Evaluators from the California Department of Health Services found that an 83-year-old man died at a hospital on Jan. 13, 2006, seven days...
- IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 11:18 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsThe death of Gillian Cichowski-a teacher; an active community leader; and, mother of two children, who died in February of 1992, while attempting to make a left hand turn on Route 17 prompted the California Senate to pass a resolution naming a bridge over Route 17 the 'Gillian Cichowski Memorial Overcrossing Bridge', and her death gave impetus to the building of the overpass that replaced the...
- IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 11:17 PM |
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MiscellaneousA Delaware jury awarded $41 million Friday to a U.S. Navy officer who said a Roman Catholic priest sexually abused him hundreds of times as a teen, according to an Associated Press article posted on the New York Times' Web site)Jurors awarded Cmdr. Kenneth Whitwell $6 million in compensatory damages and $35 million in punitive damages. Whitwell, 39, claimed the Rev. Edward J. Smith raped and...
- IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 11:13 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsRecalled pet foods contained a chemical used to make plastics, but government tests failed to confirm the presence of rat poison, federal officials said Friday, according to an Associated Press news report posted on CNN's Web site. The Food and Drug Administration said it found melamine in samples of the Menu Foods pet food as well as in wheat gluten used as an ingredient in the wet-style...
- IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 11:03 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsA jury in the Midwest this week cleared drugmaker Merck of liability in a case involving its once-blockbuster painkiller Vioxx saying that a 52-year-old obese woman didn't die because she took Vioxx, but from several other health complications.A Madison County court jury found that Merck & Co. adequately warned doctors and consumers about possible complications from using Vioxx. After...
- IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 11:01 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsA woman who killed her daughter's 16-year-old friend in a crash while driving home drunk from a nightclub was sentenced Friday to at least 16 months in prison, according to an Associated Press new report posted on the Boston Globe's Web site.Ann Marie Ciarcia, 47, who called herself "RoccerMom" and listed nightclubbing as an interest on a MySpace Web page, had pleaded guilty to manslaughter,...
- IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 11:01 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsAs the song goes, 'it never rains in California', but that wasn't the case this last week when a Lake Elsinore couple died in an auto accident after the driver attempted to enter a rain-soaked, and slippery, northbound lane of the I-5 San Diego Freeway last week. A commercial truck broadsided Domingo Chavez, 38, and his wife Martha, 45, after their car was left perpendicular to freeway lanes,...
- IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 10:42 PM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsIt was 4:30AM and a big rig was nearing the Coldwater Canyon Exit when a vehicle hit the big rig, causing it to crash into the center divider on Freeway 101, which resulted in lanes being closed in both directions. The truck driver was taken to the hospital, and the driver of the vehicle was cited for suspicion of driving under the influence said, Leland Tang, a spokesperson for the California...
- IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 10:34 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsEscondido man faces 15 years to life if convicted.The man who was allegedly responsible for the motor vehicle accident death of a Solana Beach women and then left her in the street to die, is now being charged with murder.Brian Stephen Carnes, 41, of Escondido, had a murder count added to the charges of hit and run causing death, gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and driving on a...
- IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 10:30 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsPossible sentence is five to 99 years in prison.A repeat drunken driver was found guilty of murder Thursday in the death of a Houston women in a fatal automobile accident last year in Clute, Texas. The sentencing phase of the trial began yesterday in the Brazoria County Courthouse.According to "TheFacts.com":Elden Lee Carter, 33, was on probation for his third drunken driving conviction May 16,...
- IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 8:47 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsAn 18-year-old man died earlier this month in an all-terrain vehicle accident in Conoy Township in rural Pennsylvania, according to a news report posted on LancasterOnLine.The man, whom police did not identify, was a passenger on the back of a Honda ATV driven by his 18-year-old male friend prior to the accident, according to police officials. The driver was seriously injured in the crash,...
- IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 4:16 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsThe mother of Palm Beach Central High School student last week filed suit against Ford Motor Co., Continental Tire North America and Wayne Akers Ford stemming from a Columbia County rollover automobile accident last summer that killed her 17-year-old, according to a news report in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.Brianna Cox and her family were traveling south on Interstate 75 on July 16, heading...
- IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 1:57 PM |
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Head & Brain InjuriesTwenty-four year old aspiring newscaster Brian Kelly hobnobbed with the likes of former President Bill Clinton, and reporters for such shows as Good Morning America and NBC Nightly News before his car collided with a 35-foot-long bookmobile back in Chicago in 2001, causing severe and traumatic brain injuries. The collision nearly took Brian's life. He was given last rites four times. ...
- IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 1:44 PM |
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MiscellaneousIf you talked to Charlcie Woodruff, nursing director at the McLennan County Jail, she would tell you that being a whistle-blower is the right thing to do, even though Charlcie was placed on administrative leave from her job in Waco, Texas when she did just that . Charlcie accepted the nursing director position a little over six months ago, and only after County officials promised her that jail...
- IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 1:52 AM |
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MiscellaneousA life troubled with alcohol and drugs, cuts short a promsing career.It's been almost a year since Steve Howe, one of my favorite baseball players, died after rolling his pick up truck in Coachella, California. According to local police, the pickup truck Howe was driving left the road and then entered the median and rolled several times, ejecting Howe from his truck.To my knowledge the...
- IB Contributor | March 30, 2007 7:35 PM |
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Head & Brain InjuriesThe doctor who became the patient.Claudia Osborn had been practicing medicine as an osteopathic doctor for about two years when she made a big mistake. Claudia was on her bicycle, enjoying a summer ride, when a young man lost control of his car-hitting Claudia and sending her flying over the hood of his car. Claudia was not wearing her helmet! As a result of her bicycle accident, Claudia...
- IB Contributor | March 30, 2007 4:33 PM |
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Nursing Home & Elder AbuseIndiana health officials are considering placing a nursing home's license on probation after a resident with Alzheimer's disease accidentally died last month at the nursing homre, according to an Associated Press news report published in the Indianapolis Star. The Indiana State Department of Health also wants Bradner Village Health Care Center to hire a registered nurse consultant and a licensed...
- IB Contributor | March 30, 2007 3:43 PM |
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Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)Christine Hyatt might want to blame Helen Keller for the near fatal dog bite inflicted on Maddy (short for Madeline), her family's miniature dachshund, because Helen Keller is credited with bringing the first Akita into the United States in 1937. And, it was indeed an Akita that not only brutally attacked Maddy, the valued family pet, but who also left Christine Hyatt with her arm in a sling...
- IB Contributor | March 29, 2007 12:42 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsTwo Los Angeles residents have filed a lawsuit against Menu Foods of Ontario, Canada, alleging the cat food company is to blame for their cats' recent health problems, according to papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, an Associated Press article published in the International Herald Tribune stated.The pet food lawsuit, which seeks class action status, is asking for unspecified damages....
- IB Contributor | March 29, 2007 12:35 AM |
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MiscellaneousAfter mounting complaints that its advisory committees were dominated by members with drug industry ties, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has tightened it rules on just who will be allowed to offer advice, according to a report on the Consumeraffairs.com Web site this week.Under its draft guidance, advisors who receive money from a drug or device maker would not be allowed to vote on...
- IB Contributor | March 28, 2007 10:22 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsJessica Smith, a former star of the MTV reality television show "Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County," was arrested on suspicion of felony driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs after an auto accident on the northbound San Diego (I-5) Freeway on Monday, according to a news report in The Orange County Register.Smith, 19, of Laguna Beach, crashed a 1999 Volkswagen Beetle into the back of...
- IB Contributor | March 28, 2007 10:09 PM |
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MiscellaneousClergy abuse claimed by brother and sister.A pastor faces charges of sexually assaulting two children in his wife's home day-care at least a dozen years ago, authorities said Monday, according to a Fox News report on its Web site.Stephen J. Heese, 51, pastor of The Church in South Denver, is accused of assaulting a girl, now 17, and her brother, now 20, when they attended the day-care operation...
- Christina Cole | March 28, 2007 9:35 PM |
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Motorcycle AccidentsPolice worked to clear the scene of a fatal motorcycle accident on Tuesday that had the highway closed for two hours, according to California Highway Patrol. The accident occurred on the connector ramp between westbound Interstate 580 and 1-238.The motorcyclist, a 49-year-old, Livermore man was splitting lanes in 10 to 20 mph traffic on his motorcycle when he clipped the rear of a big-rig,...
- IB Contributor | March 27, 2007 11:03 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsThe drivers of two vehicles that appeared to be racing are apparently responsible for the death of one man and injuries to four other people in a multi-vehicle auto accident in downtown Los Angeles yesterday according to police. The driver of an involved passenger car died at the scene when his vehicle was struck by a SUV, according to Officer Mike Lopez of the Los Angeles Police Department's...
- IB Contributor | March 27, 2007 1:49 AM |
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Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)According to some Washington DC moms, a walk in the part isn't, when the park is full of dogs. One DC mom indicated, "I speak for many of the mothers who are petrified by the dogs that roam Kalorama Park, off-leash". Dogs bite!! Dogs that are off-leash violate DC law . This mom and others like her don't want to be named, and they are afraid to speak out because they worry they will be...
- Christina Cole | March 26, 2007 11:55 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsHit-and-Run driver doesn't stop as he hits woman, dragging her a block.A woman was killed by a hit-and-run motorist as she was pushing a cart across the street in Avalon Gardens of South Los Angeles.The accident occurred on Saturday at 7:30pm near Avalon Boulevard. The car was gray, either a Toyota Corolla, Camry or Tercel with a black hood.The woman was caught on the roof of the car and dragged...
- IB Contributor | March 26, 2007 10:17 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsA 68-year-old Orange County woman was fatally injured in an auto accident Sunday when she attempted to make a left turn from a residential neighborhood, The Orange County Register reported Monday. Police officials suspect that street racing may have caused the crash.Witnesses told Brea Police officials that two cars were seen speeding side-by-side, southbound down the hillside street of Fairmont...
- IB Contributor | March 26, 2007 9:08 PM |
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MiscellaneousWill your insurance company pay when the tiime comes?According to a recent article in the New York Times , 64-year-old Mary Rose Derks, believed in long term care insurance (LTC). She faithfully paid Conseco Insuranace Company a $100 a month for a long-term care policy. Mary Derks was determined she would not be a burden on her family.After Mary had been hospitalized numerous times for chronic...
- IB Contributor | March 26, 2007 12:30 AM |
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Nursing Home & Elder AbuseTwo North San Diego County nursing homes are accused of providing substandard care to residents by keeping staff levels low to maximize profits, according to an article published in Saturday's San Diego Union Tribune.The allegations are in a lawsuit filed in Orange County Superior Court against Life Care Centers of America, the corporate parent of Life Care Center of Escondido and Life Care...
- IB Contributor | March 26, 2007 12:23 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsFederal agency says it's not bothered by it.Defective Ford truck spark plugs are costing car owners more than time and money, according to a very interesting article posted on www.consumeraffairs.com.The article by Joe Benton, posted Sunday, says thousands of truck owners have paid thousands of dollars to repair the damage caused by the Ford Triton V-8 engine spitting a spark plug from its...
- Christina Cole | March 25, 2007 11:41 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsDigital Security Controls is recalling approximately 32,000 defective smoke detectors that could fail to detect smoke in a fire.The recall involves Digital Security Controls FSA and FSB series photo-electric smoke detectors. The detectors are wired into the building structure and do not require a battery. The dome shaped units have a metal mesh that covers the smoke sensor.The units were sold by...
- IB Contributor | March 25, 2007 3:47 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsA 37-year-old Garden Grove man died in a surface street two-car auto accident this morning in Santa Ana, California, according to a report by CBS News.A Ford F-150 pickup truck, driven by Juan Uriostegui of Garden Grove, was traveling westbound on First Street when it collided with a Mitusbishi Eclipse traveling southbound on Euclid about 1:30 a.m., Sgt. Pete Bollinger of the Santa Ana Police...
- IB Contributor | March 25, 2007 3:07 PM |
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Motorcycle AccidentsA motorcycle accident claimed the life of a 20-year-old Chula Vista man Friday afternoon shortly before 12:30 p.m.. according to 10News.com. "Witnesses reported that the motorcycle rider was traveling at a very high rate of speed and was simply unable to negotiate the curve," California Highway Patrol public affairs Officer Brad Baehr said.According to the CHP, Christopher Linan, a hotel worker,...
- IB Contributor | March 24, 2007 2:49 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsA U.S. federal judge has thrown out a $15 million jury verdict and ordered a new trial for a lawsuit against Ford Motor Co. by a Tulsa couple whose 18-year-old son died in a rollover auto accident in November 2003, according to a news report by the Associated Press published in the Chicago Tribune.Tyler Moody lost control of a 1995 Ford Explorer sport utility vehicle while he was passing another...
- IB Contributor | March 24, 2007 2:28 PM |
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MiscellaneousThis week was a tragic one for a Garden Grove family that lost two toddlers, who drowned in the family's backyard swimming pool Wednesday.Khloe Hyunh was only 21 months old and her cousin, Jason Nguyen was 2 years old. The children's mothers are sisters, according to an article in the Orange County Register.Officials say that it took only minutes for the two children to slip away into the deep,...
- Christina Cole | March 23, 2007 10:59 PM |
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Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)According to statistics from the Federal Railroad Administration, in 2006, 36 people were killed in a train vs. vehicle collision in California. A 63 percent rise from the previous year.California, second to Texas, had 42 fatalities in highway-railroad crossing accidents. However, overall 2006 was a safer year for railroads in the state.Total train accidents in California dropped 12 percent...
- IB Contributor | March 23, 2007 7:41 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsRelatives of five people killed in a car wreck in Ontario last week have filed a lawsuit blaming a defective tire for the crash, the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin reported today.The suit, filed in federal court in Los Angeles, seeks unspecified damages from North Carolina-based Continental Tire North America and alleges wrongful death, breach of warranty and negligence. The crash occurred March...
- IB Contributor | March 22, 2007 10:37 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsFord Motor Co. has ordered dealers to stop selling the new 2008 Super Duty pickup trucks with the 6.4-liter diesel engine and is recalling more than 37,000 of those vehicles after tailpipe fires were reported in the diesel version of the pickups, according to an article posted on consumeraffairs.com.Company officials say they have received three reports of flames shooting out of tailpipes after...
- Christina Cole | March 22, 2007 10:33 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsFord halts sales of Big Super DutyFord Motor Company is ordering dealers to stop the selling of the new Super Duty pickup with the 6.4-liter diesel engine, until further notice. The Ford recall involves over 37,999 of the 2008 F-Series trucks after receiving reports about tailpipe fires in the diesel version of this truck.According to a Ford spokesman, Ford has received three reports of flames...
- IB Contributor | March 22, 2007 12:43 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsStreet racing turns into fatal car accident.A Washington teenager, has been charged with vehicular homicide and felony hit-and-run due to a fatal auto accident early last month, according to a story in the Bellingham Herald. It was at least the third fatal auto accident in Bellingham in the last twelve months involving teen drivers and high speeds.The 17-year-old teenager was driving an Acura...
- IB Contributor | March 22, 2007 12:15 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsConsumer Reports magazine announced Wednesday that its botched investigation into infant car seats was the result of a major misunderstanding between the magazine and the laboratory that conducted the tests.The complete report of the magazine's investigation into the matter may be read on the magazine's Web site.Test findings released in January said that most brands of infant car seats "failed...
- IB Contributor | March 21, 2007 12:49 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsSpeeding and alcohol may have left an 18-year-old Buena Park man dead and a teenage passenger hurt this morning in a single-vehicle auto accident near Merten Avenue and Moody Street, the Orange County Register reported on today.According to the article, Philip Na was driving a Toyota Camry about 1:40 a.m. Wednesday when it careened off the road and hit a light pole, police officials said.Na died...
- IB Contributor | March 20, 2007 10:04 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsPublic transportation bus accident kills two women.The husband of an Virginia woman who was struck and killed by a Metrobus in downtown Washington D.C. last month filed a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court Monday, seeking $100 million in damages from the transit agency, according to an article in the Washington Post.The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, was brought by...
- IB Contributor | March 20, 2007 9:48 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsWas this a roof crush fatality?A California man driving a Ford Excursion on U.S. 6 just east of Ely, Nevada died Sunday in a single-vehicle rollover accident according to a story by NBC News 4.Jay Wooten of Fairfield, California was driving his Ford Excursion with five other people in the vehicle, when he swerved to avoiding hitting an elk. According to Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper George...
- IB Contributor | March 19, 2007 10:03 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsMillions of children eat in school cafeterias that don't get the twice-yearly health inspections required by Congress to help prevent food poisoning, according to an Associated Press investigation. The complete report is posted on MSNBC's Web site.The article states that schools are supposed to get two visits from health inspectors every year. But one in 10 schools did not get inspected at all...
- IB Contributor | March 19, 2007 9:42 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsNeither of the deceased were wearing seat belts.An unsafe lane change Friday lead to two deaths and five injuries in an multi-car accident on Highway 99 according to the California Highway Patrol, as reported by ABC News.Lauro Aguliar Juarez, 28 apparently struck a Ford Taurus with his Nissan Altima while making a lane change, causing the Ford to rollover. The accident killed one person...
- Christina Cole | March 19, 2007 1:35 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsTrain Strikes Pedestrian.On Saturday evening at approximately 6:06pm, a pedestrian was injured when a train derailed and hit the person on Old Santa Cruz Highway, reports a California Highway Patrol Officer. The location of the pedestrian accident was reported as being 22412 Old Santa Cruz Highway at the intersection with Summit Rd.At this time, no further details have been released and the...
- IB Contributor | March 18, 2007 10:29 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsIs this a case of seat belt failure or failure to use a seat belt?The Orange County Register reported that a Lake Forest man, who was not seat belted, was ejected from the rear-passenger seat of the vehicle he was traveling in and died from his injuries. The accident occurred along the shoulder of the northbound Mohave (I-15) Freeway near Hesperia late Saturday night.According to California...
- Christina Cole | March 18, 2007 12:50 AM |
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Nursing Home & Elder AbuseElder care facilities accused of abuse and fraud.Over a dozen nursing homes that are run by one of the biggest elder care providers in the country are accused of abuse and fraud in a class action lawsuit that was filed in Orange County Superior Court.The lawsuit accuses thirteen Southern California centers operated by Life Care Centers of America Inc, of having a long history of nursing home...
- IB Contributor | March 18, 2007 12:10 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsRacing drivers charged with felonies.A 21-year-old UC Riverside student from Orange was killed early Friday morning in a auto accident on the eastbound 60 (Pomona) Freeway in Riverside, according to authorities, as reported in the Orange County Register.A BMW Z4 and a Toyota Celica were racing at about 100 mph when the driver of the Toyota veered onto the right shoulder, where it struck a metal...
- IB Contributor | March 18, 2007 12:02 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsConfidential settlement admits no fault.The families of the two passengers killed when a Greyhound bus crashed in Santa Maria on Highway 101 have settled their wrongful death lawsuits against the bus company in separate private mediations with trial dates pending. The terms of each settlement are confidential and not disclosed. However, Greyhound admitted no fault and the settlements included...
- IB Contributor | March 17, 2007 9:33 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsHere is another story of a hit-and-run driver killing someone. This time the fatal bicycle accident was in Solana Beach, San Diego County, California, as reported by the North County Times.SOLANA BEACH ---- A woman on a bicycle was fatally struck by a motorist who then fled the scene on Highway 101 Friday, authorities said. The driver was later found and taken into custody in Escondido, a...
- IB Contributor | March 16, 2007 6:27 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsDefective parts blamed for crashes. Families of several victims killed in two separate plane crashes in Indonesia are suing the aircraft manufacturers for manufacturing defective parts, which they say resulted in the crashes, according to a news report Thursday in The Australian.According to an Indonesian attorney quoted in the article, a lawsuit naming Boeing Corporation and United Technologies...
- IB Contributor | March 16, 2007 6:11 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsLagnua Niguel man charged with vehicular manslaughter.Two Orange County auto accidents, occurring nearly simultaneously about 11:15 p.m. Thursday, left one woman dead and four others injured - two critically - on the southbound San Diego (I-5) Freeway near the Alicia Parkway exit., the Orange County Register reported Friday.The collisions, which the CHP is treating as unrelated, also led to the...
- IB Contributor | March 15, 2007 10:33 PM |
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Motorcycle AccidentsA 24-year-old man died Wednesday night after he was thrown from his motorcycle while trying to avoid getting struck by a vehicle, according to a news report in The Orange County Register.Nicolas Andrew Cardoza, of Cypress, was traveling on Ball Road near Palm Way when the motorcycle accident occurred, police said. According to eyewitness reports, a Volkswagen sedan traveling in the No. 2 lane on...
- Christina Cole | March 15, 2007 3:39 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsThousands of vehicles recalled by Chrysler.The Chrysler Group is recalling over 489,000 vehicles for various auto defects. Some of the models being recalled include: Dodge Durango, the new Dodge Avenger Sedan and the Jeep Liberty.Chrysler is recalling approximately 328,424 Durango SUVs because of a risk hazard associated with overheating that has been linked to an integrated circuit within the...
- IB Contributor | March 15, 2007 9:01 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsPavano hide auto accident and injury from his team. A Florida man involved last year in an auto accident with a Porsche driven by Carl Pavano has sued the New York Yankees pitcher for injuries allegedly sustained in the crash, which the player initially tried to hide from his team, according to an article posted last week on CBS SportsLine.Ernest DeLaura, 47, who filed the lawsuit two months...
- IB Contributor | March 14, 2007 11:01 PM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsAt fault driver arrested for DUI.A passenger vehicle vs. a big rig accident early this morning prompted a temporary closure of the 101 Freeway near the Coldwater Canyon Avenue exit near Studio City. The tractor trailer was left straddling traffic lanes in both directions and caused long delays throughout the morning commute until late morning according to a story in the Los Angeles Times.The...
- IB Contributor | March 14, 2007 10:35 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsNew technologies designed to save lives.According to a recent Health & Science report, Toyota Motor Corporation is in development of a car that will detect signs of drunk drivers before they get on the road with the rest of us. This type technology should be a prerequisite for the return of a driver's license to anyone convicted of driving under the influence. How many lives would be saved by...
- Christina Cole | March 13, 2007 8:32 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsMan Killed in a deadly oil field explosion.A man is dead after the vacuum truck he was driving hit an oil well triggering a horrendous explosion, this morning.He was found dead two hours after the fire was reported, according to Fire Department officials. At first, officials were under the assumption that it was a natural gas fire with no injuries. Fire Rescue had to stay a good distance away...
- IB Contributor | March 13, 2007 9:22 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsVictim attributes seat belts and infant car seats to saving family's lives.Last Monday morning, Patrick Bishop, a six-year-old, rescued his ten-month-old sister, Taylor, from her car seat, through a broken out window and pulled his two-year-old sister, Megan, through another broken window of their rolled over vehicle, while their mother, Kaci Harrison was trapped inside according to a KHAS-TV...
- IB Contributor | March 12, 2007 11:30 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsAnother teenage street racing death.Two illegally street racing vehicles collided last Friday night about 9:15 p.m. killing an 18-year-old Fontana woman passenger, according to Fontana police as reported by the Press Enterprise.Monica Molina was a passenger in a Nissan being driven by Juan Barajas, 19. Barajas was racing Jose Alcantar, 23 who was driving a black Ford. The were racing westbound...
- IB Contributor | March 12, 2007 10:04 PM |
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Automobile Accidents2003-2005 Crown Victoria Interceptors Recalled.Ford Motor Company has announced a voluntary recall of 2003-2005 Crown Victoria Interceptor police cruisers built between, October 10, 2001 and December 8, 2004, at an assembly plant in St. Thomas, Ontario due to a wheel defect in the automobile's steel wheels according to various news sources.The defective wheels of the Interceptors have been found...
- IB Contributor | March 11, 2007 10:10 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsFord recalls more pickup trucks and SUVs. Ford Motor Co. recalled about 155,000 pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles last week to repair a defective cruise control switch system that already had led to millions of recalls, according to an Associated Press news report posted on CBS news' Web site.This announcement came on the same day that the Associated Press reported that the auto maker had...
- IB Contributor | March 10, 2007 12:24 AM |
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MiscellaneousAn Ohio pastor has been charged for allegedly having inappropriate sexual contact with a 15-year-old girl, according to a news article posted in the Dayton Journal News in Ohio. The girl, whose name was not released because she was a minor and the victim of a sex crime, said Enorris Thomas, an assistant pastor at Second Baptist Church on Verity Parkway, fondled her at his Middletown home,...
- Christina Cole | March 09, 2007 6:33 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsTwo injured in accident that blocks lanes for 20 minutes.The northbound lanes of the San Diego (I-5) Freeway were closed for twenty minutes after a multi-vehicle accident that left one vehicle overturned and another engulfed in flames.The four-car crash that happened at 12:49, blocked off lanes next to Crown Valley Parkway while the Orange County Fire Authority and California Highway Patrol...
- IB Contributor | March 09, 2007 12:04 AM |
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Automobile Accidents70,000 auto accident injuries attributed to sleepy drivers annually.Ken Gonyea had been an accident investigations detective for the Long Beach Police Department for over ten years, but even that couldn't prepare him for the accident that took the lives of his father, stepmother and sister-in-law several years ago in Riverside County . Gonyea was devastated, "My parents were just driving down...
- IB Contributor | March 08, 2007 10:52 PM |
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Head & Brain InjuriesMotorcycle vs. truck accident results in catastrophic loss.Todd Richardson, a 38 year-old father of 5 young children, was on his motorcycle and on his way to buy a part for his boat. Todd planned to take his family to Lake Powell, Utah. When Todd waved goodbye to his family he didn't know it would be three months before he would return home to a very different life than he had when he waved...
- Christina Cole | March 08, 2007 1:59 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous Products100,000 Ryobi Router Table throat plates are being recalled.The throat plate can come loose during use and be ejected from the table top, posing a safety hazard and laceration risk.So far, the company has received three reports of the plates becoming loose during use. Two of the three consumers were hit in the nose by the throat plates and had minor bruising and cuts.The product recall includes...
- IB Contributor | March 07, 2007 10:16 PM |
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Nursing Home & Elder AbuseOwner also convicted of tax fraud. State health officials have fined a San Jose nursing home $100,000 - the highest fine allowed under state law - for substandard care that led to the October death of a 67-year-old man, according to an article in the San Jose Mercury News.The fine was announced the same day that Jack Easterday, the president of Homewood Care Center's parent company, was...
- Christina Cole | March 07, 2007 10:19 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsFord recalling 155,000 pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles.Ford Motor Company is recalling 155,000 sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks which includes the following models: 2003 F-150, F-250, F-350, F-450 and F-550 Super Duty truck, the Ford Excursion SUV and the Lincoln Blackwood pickup.The recall involves a defective cruise control switch that is potentially causing fires in older...
- IB Contributor | March 07, 2007 12:49 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsWhat about competitive testing? Only the truly best get a 5-Star rating. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which has been rating cars and trucks on how they perform in crash tests for 30 years, is considering overhauling the tests just as the ratings will become more obvious to consumers, according to an article published Wednesday in USA Today. NHTSA gives vehicles one to...
- IB Contributor | March 06, 2007 10:04 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsFord denies fault, settles anyway.An Iowa man whose wife died in a fire he said was caused by a Ford pickup truck, has settled a lawsuit with the auto manufacturer, according to an Associated Press news report posted on the Business Week Web site..The 78-year-old Earl Mohlis' wife, Darletta, died May 2, 2005, after a fire spread from their attached garage to their home.Mohlis and his three grown...
- Christina Cole | March 06, 2007 9:24 AM |
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MiscellaneousSan Diego Diocese files for bankruptcy protection.The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego announced they are filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy only hours prior to a final settlement offer was rejected by attorneys for dozens of people who claim they were sexually abused by priests.The filing drew abrupt accusations from victims' advocates which will immediately halt more than 140 lawsuits targeting...
- IB Contributor | March 05, 2007 12:37 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsThey failed to disclose a defective product.Toy maker Fisher-Price has been fined close to $1 million for failing to report a product defect, a serious choking hazard with its Little People Animal Sounds Farm, a popular children's toy, according to a report posted on the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's Web site.New York-based Fisher-Price has agreed to pay $975,000 in penalties because...
- IB Contributor | March 04, 2007 9:47 AM |
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Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)Riverside-Corona crossing has high accident rate.According to a story in the Press Enterprise, Metrolink Train 804 slammed into a van that then hit another car early Friday evening during rush hour. Five people were taken to hospitals, three in serious condition. None of the passengers on the Metrolink train were injured according to Riverside fire Battalion Chief Mike Esparza.The accident...
- Christina Cole | March 03, 2007 9:29 PM |
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Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)2nd Fatality in One Week at Same Railroad Crossing.In a railroad accident on Friday morning, a 23-year-old Suisun City Man, was killed by a westbound Amtrak train when attempting to cross the railroad tracks at Sunset Avenue.According to the preliminary investigation, police believe the man was traveling north on Sunset Avenue toward the tracks. At that same time the train was traveling east and...
- IB Contributor | March 03, 2007 7:05 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsFour college students and two others die in bus accident.A chartered bus carrying a college baseball team flipped over the concrete railing of a Georgia interstate overpass early Friday morning and dropped 24 feet to the highway below killing six people and injury 29 others, according to a story in the Orange County Register.The baseball team from Bluffton University in Ohio was traveling to ...
- IB Contributor | March 03, 2007 8:13 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsWitnesses are being asked to come forward..The two-vehicle auto accident in Tustin that left a 7-year-old boy in critical condition and his father and brother injured on Wednesday involved a driver that previously plead guilty to a driving under the influence charge.That same driver was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after Wednesday's accident.The suspected DUI driver, ...
- IB Contributor | March 02, 2007 6:12 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsTeenager dies. Irvine man hospitalized.A two-vehicle auto accident at Arrow Highway and Fulton Road at about 10 p.m. on Thursday night, claimed the life of a 17-year-old boy and sent the passengers of the other vehicle to the hospital according to the Pomona Police Department, as reported by the Orange County Register. The condition of the two injured men was not known. The deceased boy's...
- IB Contributor | March 02, 2007 9:12 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsKraft Foods expands cooked chicken recall.Federal agriculture officials on Wednesday said that Kraft Foods contractor, Carolina Culinary Foods, has expanded its recall of cooked Oscar Meyer/Louis Rich chicken breast cutlets and strips because of ongoing concerns that some packages may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, the bacterium that causes listeriosis.A Reuters report said about...
- Christina Cole | March 01, 2007 11:22 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsMan Arrested on Suspicion of DUI after Broadsiding a SedanA two-vehicle car accident, Wednesday, has left a seven year old boy in critical condition. The car he was traveling in was hit by a pickup truck. The driver was later arrested on suspicion of driving while under the influence.The Father of the boy, and his other son were also transported to the hospital for moderate injuries. A 2000...
- IB Contributor | March 01, 2007 11:23 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsBill addresses a continuing source of child deaths and injuries.Lawmakers and safety advocates in Washington called for new safety upgrades Tuesday that would require rear view cameras for drivers and power windows that automatically reverse as a way to protect young children around vehicles.According to an Associated Press news report posted on the Kansas City Star's Web site, Senator Hillary...