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• Union Station Train Accident Injures Seven

  Shannon Weidemann | February 08, 2008 10:32 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A train accident at Union Station in Washington D.C. involving a commuter train and an Amtrak locomotive injured seven people on Thursday. The MARC commuter train from Baltimore had just arrived and passengers were disembarking when it was struck by the locomotive. The six-car MARC train 419 had come to a stop at its usual platform at 10:03 a.m. yesterday when an Amtrak locomotive assigned to...

• Belleville Construction Accident Injures Two

  Shannon Weidemann | February 05, 2008 10:56 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A construction accident in Belleville, Washington left two men hurt after being hit by a piece of equipment. They were working at the site of some radio towers when the accident happened. Bellevue fire officials say a crew of five was doing maintenance at three radio towers in the 3000 block of 118th Avenue SE. They were reinstalling guy wires, which involve anchoring them some 110 feet into...

• Bethesda Car Accident Kills Teenage

  Shannon Weidemann | February 02, 2008 10:23 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  An 18-year-old driver was killed after driving his car into a tree. The car accident happened early on Saturday morning. It is unknown why he lost control of the vehicle.The victim was traveling westbound on Bradley Boulevard toward Wilson Lane. When he approached Brite Drive police say he lost control of his 2001 Jaguar and struck a tree.The car was found in a yard of a home on the street. ...

• Subpoenas Issued Over Ketek

  Shannon Weidemann | January 31, 2008 10:02 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  The Congressional subcommitte Oversight and Investigations will be issuing subpoenas to FDA investigators over the antibiotic Ketek. They are looking for more information into fraudulant clinical data that was used to gain approval for the drug. Last year the FDA issued a black box warning label for Ketek, the highest safety warning. The subcommittee is investigating drug safety and whether...

• Man Dies in Georgia Construction Accident

  Shannon Weidemann | January 30, 2008 8:50 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A man was killed by a falling beam at the Kia plant under construction in West Point, Georgia. The 47-year-old construction worker was working on a plant set to open next year. The construction accident happened early on Tuesday morning. The victim was working for a subcontractor when a beam fell and apparently hit him, Kia human resources director Randy Jackson said.The victim was...

• Car Accident Kills Man at Calhoun College

  Shannon Weidemann | January 28, 2008 9:20 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A man was killed in a car accident that ended on the lawn at Calhoun Community College. The victim was from Decatur and was driving his car on Highway 31 early Thursday morning. He lost control of his vehicle and crashed.They say he crossed both southbound lanes, hit the ditch in the middle of the road, and the car started to flip over. Then the car continued to cross the northbound lanes...

• Loxley Trucking Accident Kills Three

  Shannon Weidemann | January 26, 2008 9:04 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Three people were killed in a trucking accident on Friday evening. The accident happened near Loxley on Alabama Highway 59. Three people were traveling in a car when they collided with a tractor-trailer. The driver, 64, of Benton, Maine, apparently pulled his car onto the highway into the path of a southbound Freightliner tractor-trailer at about 7 p.m.The truck struck the car on the driver...

• Botulism Canned Bean Recall Expanded

  Shannon Weidemann | January 24, 2008 10:01 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A recall for canned beans that may have been contaminated with botulism has been expanded to include larger cans. The recall also was expanded for beans that were canned for the last five years by New Era Canning Company. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that New Era is expanding its product recall to include large, industrial-size cans of green beans, Mexican-style chili beans,...

• Motorcycle Accident Injures Teenager in Missouri

  Shannon Weidemann | January 23, 2008 10:16 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A 19-year-old motorcycle driver was hurt in a motorcycle accident yesterday. He was driving his motorcycle in Taney County when the accident occured. He hit a car that was coming out of a driveway. The victim was riding a 1993 Kawasaki motorcycle on U.S. 160 one mile north of Forsyth when the accident happened, according to the patrol�s report.The motorcycle driver was wearing a helmet at...

• Vytorin No Better than Older Drug

  Shannon Weidemann | January 18, 2008 10:27 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A study performed by Merck & Co. over two years ago showed that Vytorin, a cholesterol lowering and statin drug did not effectively reduce the amount of fatty deposits in arteries. Vytorin is a combination of Zetia, a cholesterol lowering drug, and Zocor, a statin. The study concluded that Zocor and Vytorin had the same affect on fatty deposits. There has been confusion over what that means...