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• Happy Holidays, Watch Your Step

  Christy Thompson | November 25, 2009 2:32 AM | 1 CommentChandler, AZ

  With the cooler months arriving, icy steps, floors and outdoor walkways are a scary inevitability. There are simple precautions that are overlooked every winter season that if put in...

• DWI La-Z-Boy Isn't - Trademark Foul Kills E-Bay Auction at $43,500

  Joe Crumley | November 03, 2009 8:37 AM | 2 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN

  E-Bay officials pulled the auction of the infamous DWI La-Z-Boy, aparently after the LaZ-Boy company claimed a trademark violation. Proctor police chief Walter Wobig got a fax Monday morning from a...

• FDA Slow In Banning Fraudulent Drug Researchers

  Greg Webb | November 01, 2009 9:52 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  In a report scheduled for release on Thursday, Congressional investigators say the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pays little attention to its duty to ban investigators that are convicted of...

• $2 Million Dollar Cell Phone Call, Tort Reform Would Say "Sorry Wrong Number"

  Steve Lombardi | October 29, 2009 2:18 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Chicago Woman Pedestrian Struck by Distracted Driver Here is the report: The following is alleged - 24-7 Press Release article released October 7, 2009, the settlement for a personal injury case...

• Independence, Missouri Cracks Down On Train Accidents

  Brett Emison | October 28, 2009 6:52 PM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO

  The Independence Examiner is reporting that the City of Independence, Missouri is cracking down on motorists to remind them of railroad crossing accident dangers. Independence Police . . . issued...

• Northwest to Assign Mother’s to Flight Crews, Zzzz…

  Steve Lombardi | October 28, 2009 5:29 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Northwest's Black-Hole Flight Crew Piloting the US Chamber’s Ship of Fools Joe Crumley in Minnesota did a good job of covering the Northwest Airlines Flight 188 through the black hole...

• Pennsylvania Jury Orders Lasko Fan Manufacturer to Pay $13.5 Million to Family of Germantown Boy

  David Mittleman | October 25, 2009 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  Lasko Products, the largest manufacturer of fans in the U.S., was ordered to pay $13.5 million to the family of a 7-year-old Germantown, Pennsylvania boy who was killed in a 2005 blaze ignited by a...

• SUV’s overly rigid design uncovered in auto accident

  Gary Shipman | October 23, 2009 3:29 PM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC

  A woman driving her 1995 Pathfinder SUV was struck in the front left corner by another car traveling between 45 and 50 m.p.h. The impact pushed the left front tire through the firewall and...

• Safe Sidewalks

  Gaines Drago | October 21, 2009 10:23 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  8 Schools in the Mobile, Alabama, area are finally getting safe sidewalks around their campuses. The cost of this federally funded project was just over one million dollars. While the percentage of...

• Two People Killed Going Wrong Way on I-264 and No Seatbelts

  Karl Truman | October 20, 2009 8:56 PM | 0 CommentsLouisville, KY

  The Louisville Courier Journal reported that Stephanie Boyd of Jeffersonville, Indiana got on the westbound land of the Waterson Expressway, Interstate 264, and collided with a car driven by Saul...