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• Contaminated pet food and farm feed

  Staff Writer | April 30, 2007 4:12 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  A new development in the pet food contamination and recall fiasco has surfaced, according to many news reports around the country. Though more than 100 brands of dog and cat food were recalled because of the presence of melamine, a dangerous industrial chemical believed to have caused the deaths of a number of pets, now hogs and other farm animals may have eaten feed contaminated with melamine....

• Tragic accident kills woman, injures children

  Staff Writer | April 29, 2007 4:22 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  A fatal one-car accident Friday killed the driver nad injured three minor children wh owere passengers on Interstate 20-59 at mile marker 64.The cause of the motor vehicle accident was not reported, but Alabama State Troopers said that the driver was ejected from the car. The three children who were injured were taken directly to DCH Regional Medical Center.If you or someone you know has been...

• GlaxoSmithKline to settle over Paxil lawsuits

  Staff Writer | April 27, 2007 4:50 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  A judge said this week he plans to approve a $64 million settlement between GlaxoSmithKline and parents of minors who took the defective drug without knowing the possible side effects, including suicidal thoughts and withdrawal symptoms, among others. The plaintiffs of the class action lawsuit against the second largest drug maker in the world claim that the company did not adequately warn...

• Wal-Mart loses $4 million verdict over accident

  Staff Writer | April 23, 2007 10:20 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  A Montgomery, Alabama jury awarded a paralyzed woman $4 million in a verdict Friday, said a report from the Associated Press.The woman, Carolyn Thorne, was paralyzed in a rollover crash that resulted when her SUV's tires separated after visiting a Wal-Mart service center. Her car's tires were recalled in 2002 by Continential Tire Company, and she took her SUV in to Wal-Mart to have the tires...

• Motor vehicle accidents injure six people

  Staff Writer | April 22, 2007 10:08 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  The Alabama Department of Public Safety reported a string of accidents on Interstate 85 yesterday that caused six injuries, none of them serious.The Montgomery Advertiser reports that the first accident occurred when a tractor-trailer truck lost control and overturned in the northbound lane near the Shorter exit in Macon County. Later a car in the southbound lane ran into a guard rail as it...

• Train hits 18-wheeler in accident

  Staff Writer | April 18, 2007 9:48 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)

  Another Alabama train accident on March 27 in Sylacauga fortunately did not result in injury or death, according to a report from Daily Home Online.Apparently, an 18-wheeler going south on North Broadway did not hear a train whistle and was struck by the train's engine. No one in the train or truck was injured. This further raises the question of installing warning gates at all railroad...

• Motor vehicle accident injures woman

  Staff Writer | April 17, 2007 9:31 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  An accident Wednesday involving two vehicles injured a woman, who was treated and released from Vaughan Regional Medial Center, says a reprot from The Selma Times-Journal.The accident happened at U.S. Highway 80 E. and Old Montgomery Highway, damaging both vehicles: a 2004 Nissa Sentra and a 1986 Toyota Pickup truck. An Alabama state trooper reports the details of the accident:"Mrs. Lawson was...

• Story of trucker with no accidents

  Staff Writer | April 16, 2007 9:23 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents

  The Associated Press published a story today about a truck driver who has recently logged one million miles free of accidents. The 59-year-old trucker Willie Barnes is interviewed in the story, and proper safety measures he takes each day on the job should be held up as the ideal example for truck drivers. Unfortunately too many truckers do not follow this man's example, leading to countless...

• Workplace shooting leaves one dead, two injured

  Staff Writer | April 10, 2007 8:42 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  A laid-off employee in Michigan opened fire with a 12-guage shotgun on his former office and co-workers Monday, killing a woman and injuring the firm's two partners.The office shooting occured in Troy at Gordon Advisors Accounting Firm, where employees reportedly barracaded themselves in their offices and hid during and after the shooting. Police officers on the scene removed the employees in...

• Dangerous curve blamed for Hwy. 69 accidents

  Staff Writer | April 08, 2007 5:35 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Motor vehicle accidents, many of them deadly, have been all too common on a stretch of Highway 69 with a dangerous curve, a story from TuscaloosaNews.com reports.One woman in the story recounts a deadly accident in October, during which her husband and father inflicted serious injuries from which they are still recovering.The section of Highway 69, containing a memorial marker honoring life...