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• Fisher Price Toy Medical Kit Tests Positive for Lead

  Shannon Weidemann | December 08, 2007 7:55 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Consumers Union, the company behind Consumer Reports performed lead testing on several popular children's toys. They found that the red blood pressure cuff in the Fisher Price Children's Medical Kit toy contained lead. The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that the defective toy meets federal safety standards and is not subject to a recall.Vallese says that the agency would like to...

• Austin Construction Accident Kills Man

  Shannon Weidemann | December 06, 2007 7:19 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A man was killed in an Austin construction accident Thursday. The worker was near a retaining wall and a boulder at the time of the accident. He was crushed when the boulder moved. Authorities say the man was crushed either when workers were trying to move the boulder, or he fell on his own beneath them.The incident happened while a house was under construction. The accident happened on a...

• Montgomery County Motorcycle Accident Kills Three

  Shannon Weidemann | December 04, 2007 5:07 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A motorcycle accident in Montgomery County, Tennessee killed three people and injured one on Monday. The accident involved a motorcycle and a pickup truck. The accident happened Monday afternoon on College Street. A truck collided with a motorcycle.The person on the motorcycle died, so did two people in the pick-up truck.A fourth victim was airlifted to Vanderbilt Children's Hospital and...

• Couple Killed in Thanksgiving Motorcycle Crash

  Shannon Weidemann | November 30, 2007 1:24 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A couple that had been married for 24 years was killed in a motorcycle accident on their way to Thanksgiving dinner with their family. They were hit by a car that failed to yield at a stop sign. The wife was killed at the scene and the husband died later at the hospital. The couple was killed Thursday morning after a 2007 BMW failed to stop at a stop sign and hit the front of the...

• Huntington Pedestrian Killed by Train

  Shannon Weidemann | November 28, 2007 1:04 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A man walking across a train crossing was struck and killed by a train on Monday morning. The train accident happened in Huntington. Crossing gates were down and signals were flashing at the time. The train was unable to stop in time. The pedestrian, identified so far only as being male, was struck by the 11:37 a.m. train from Port Jefferson to Hicksville. The accident occurred at...

• Ground Beef Recalled Over E. Coli

  Shannon Weidemann | November 26, 2007 12:47 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A ground beef recall was announced today for over 96,000 pounds processed by American Food Groups, LLC. The ground beef may be contaminated with a strain of E. coli bacterium. E. coli can cause a severe illness with bloody diarrhea that may end in death. The ground beef products subject to recall were produced on Oct. 10 and were distributed to retail establishments and distributors in...

• Man Injured in Montgomery Car Crash

  Shannon Weidemann | November 23, 2007 11:25 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  An unidentified man was hurt in a car accident on a Montgomery highway earlier today. He was driving a car on Interstate 370 in Montgomery County. He drove off the road and hit a tractor that was parked in the grass. The car struck a grass-cutting tractor, which was unoccupied, and caught fire, according to John McDonough, a spokesman for Maryland State Police. Grass and brush also caught...

• Tractor Trailer Drives Onto Pickup Truck in Alabama

  Shannon Weidemann | November 21, 2007 3:41 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A man is amazed that he escaped serious injury in Alabama after his pickup truck was driven over by an 18-wheeler. The trucking accident happened on Route 65 on Monday. The man suffered some slight injuries. The driver of the 18-wheeler was taken to the hospital to be treated for his injuries. Foro, 59, recalled seeing the windshield crack and the roof begin to crumple. Before he could...

• New Orleans Construction Accident Kills Man

  Shannon Weidemann | November 18, 2007 2:04 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A construction worker from Amite was killed in a worksite accident in New Orleans on Wednesday. The worksite was near Loyola University and involved a dump truck and a front loader. According to police, the victim was operating a dump truck. He apparently parked and stepped away from the vehicle for a moment. Meanwhile, a nearby tractor began moving forward, trapping the victim between the...

• Berkeley Pedestrian Killed by Amtrak Train

  Shannon Weidemann | November 16, 2007 1:43 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A man walking across some train tracks in Berkeley was killed by an Amtrak train. The train accident happened early this morning. The man was not using a marked crossing to cross the train tracks. The California Zephyr train was headed east and was near the Berkeley Amtrak station, located at University Avenue and Third Street, at 8:12 a.m. when the accident happened, said Amtrak...