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• California's Ticking Option ARM Time Bomb

  Paul Kiesel | August 19, 2008 3:29 PM | 9 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  "Optimists, look away now." This is the first sentence of a very brief article in last week's The Economist. The subhead reads "A nasty mortgage product promises yet more misery," and the title of...

• The Subprime Mess and Phil Gramm: An Experiment in Deregulation

  Paul Kiesel | June 24, 2008 4:12 PM | 9 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  In 1933, a few years following the stock market crash, Congress passes the Glass-Steagall Act, in hopes that regulating banks will help prevent market instability, particularly amongst Wall Street...

• Fatal Plane Crash at Fall River

  Todd Slaughter | May 24, 2008 5:02 PM | 9 CommentsRedding, CA

  On Friday morning, May 23, 2008, a single-engined Beechcraft V35 Bonanza crashed in the trees some 4000 feet short of the runway at Fall River Mills aiport. Luckily no one on the ground was injured....

• Owners Accountable for Dangerous Dogs

  Staff Writer | March 14, 2006 11:23 AM | 9 CommentsRichmond, VA

  This past weekend, a casual stroll through many of the parks in the Richmond, Virginia area would you have made you think it was "pitbull weekend". Strangely enough, there were dozens of owners walking their dogs with make shift leashes. In many instances, it appeared that the dogs were actually walking their owners. On Sunday, one pitbull got loose in Monroe Park and attacked at least five...

• Boot Camp Becomes Death Camp

  Bob Carroll | February 09, 2006 6:11 AM | 9 CommentsPinellas, FL

  Boot camps for juvenile offenders are intended to provide a strict regime that leads to a better life. The Miami Herald reports on a camp session that got tragically out of hand. Guards seen beating teen in videoA 14-year-old boy was ''brutally'' beaten by guards and ''flung around like a rag doll'' at a boot camp for juvenile delinquents in Panama City hours before he died at a Panhandle...

• Mother's Erratic Driving Causes Own Son's Death

  Darren Tobin | November 07, 2011 2:06 PM | 8 CommentsAtlanta, GA

  A motor vehicle crash in South Fulton this past Saturday, November 5, 2011 left one teenager dead and 5 children injured. The vehicle crash occurred around 12:30 p.m. near the intersection of Flat...

• Rick Santorum's Tort Reform Agenda

  Brett Emison | November 02, 2011 5:13 PM | 8 CommentsKansas City, MO

  Rick Santorum was profiled by William Petroski at the Des Moines Register. Based on his responses, it certainly appears that Rick Santorum is more a socialist than capitalistic conservative....

• Did You Know... Diabetes Drug Actos Has Been Linked To Bladder Cancer?

  Brett Emison | August 29, 2011 11:04 AM | 8 CommentsKansas City, MO

  Many people taking the diabetes medication, Actos, may not realize that studies have linked prolonged use of Actos with bladder cancer. An FDA study released in June examines a suspected link...

• "Mann v. Ford" Documentary Shows Why We Need Class Action Lawsuits

  Andrew Cochran | July 18, 2011 11:15 AM | 8 CommentsVoices

  Tonight at 9 pm ET, HBO will broadcast a documentary titled, Mann v. Ford, about a class action lawsuit brought by the Ramapough Mountain Indians, who have lived for hundreds of years in northern...

• Bicycle Helmets Save Lives: Another Hit-and-Run Fatality in Santa Cruz

  Claude Wyle | July 12, 2011 3:45 AM | 8 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  There are some basics to bicycling safety which most of us learned as children. So, why did some of us forget fundamental bicycle safety rules, as rudimentary as wearing a helmet? Would you let your...