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• Portland Officer Injured In Crash During Taping Of The TV Show COPS

  Chrissie Cole | September 30, 2009 4:14 PM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR

  A Portland police officer was injured in a car crash during taping of the TV show “COPS.” The accident happened Tuesday night when a vehicle crossed the center line at the...

• Car Crashes Into Portland Home Injuring Two

  Chrissie Cole | March 22, 2009 2:39 PM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR

  A car struck a power pole and then a house in Portland on Sunday sending two people to the hospital. The car crash occurred at the intersection of Southeast 162nd Avenue and Taggart Street....

• Two Teens Die in Oregon Car Accident

  Jenny Albano | March 30, 2008 12:33 PM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR

  Two teenagers from Roseburg, Oregon died on Friday, March 28 after the car they were riding in swerved off the road, hit an electrical pole, hit a tree, and then flipped over. The 15-year-old driver, Jacob Gonzales, of the 1995 Toyota Camry is in serious condition after the car accident and another passenger was already treated and released from the hospital.Gonzales failed to negotiate a...

• Toxins in Fish Sicken Many in U.S.

  Jenny Albano | February 06, 2008 4:26 PM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR

  The FDA has announced that there have been at least 28 reports of consumers getting sick from ciguatera fish poisoning. The fish that were eaten were harvested in the northern Gulf of Mexico. The first reproted case was in November and outbreaks of the illness were confirmed in Washington D.C. and St. Louis.Symptoms of ciguatera poisoning include nausea, vomiting, vertigo and joint pain. In...

• Paricon Recalls Children's Snow and Sand Castle Kits Because of Sharp Edges

  Jenny Albano | November 21, 2007 6:48 PM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR

  Paricon, in conjunction with the CPSC, is recalling about 800 Children's Snow and Sand Castle Kits because the largest plastic castle block maker in the kit can crack at the handle during when being used, which creates sharp edges that pose a laceration hazard to children.The recall castle kit consists of three red plastic block makers. Only the largest block maker in the set is included in the...

• Car and Train Collide Because of Text-Massaging Driver

  Jenny Albano | October 18, 2007 2:14 PM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR

  An Oregon man crashed into a freight train on Tuesday, October 16 at around 2 a.m. The driver, Robert Gillespie, and the crew on-board the train were not seriously injured.Gillespie told rescue workers that he was using his cell phone to send a text message while they were trying to release him from the demolished vehicle. He has been charged with drunken driving and careless driving. It is...

• Xcel Energy HydroPlant Chemical Fire Kills Five Contract Workers

  Courtney Mills | October 03, 2007 12:29 PM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR

  A smoldering fire 1000 ft. inside a tunnel at a hydro-electric plant outside of Georgetown, Colorado, developed late Tuesday, killing five contract workers of the company as they tried in vain to escape. The five who perished in the chemical fire were from a group of nine contract maintenance workers at Xcel Energy. The workers had crawled 1,000 feet inside an empty 4,000 foot long underground...

• Worker Dies in Wind Tower Collapse

  Jenny Albano | August 28, 2007 10:49 PM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR

  Chadd Mitchell died on Saturday at a wind farm that is under construction in Oregon. Mitchell was killed when a 242-foot-tall tower he was working on fell over.Mitchell, of Goldendale, Washington, was working at the top of the tower -- essentially a hollow tube -- when it buckled. A second worker in the tube was injured and a third worker on the ground was not hurt, according to The Oregonian...

• Certain Models of Triple-Channel Infusion Pumps Recalled

  Jenny Albano | July 25, 2007 1:54 PM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR

  On Friday, the FDA alerted healthcare professionals of a class 1 recall of certain models of an upgraded triple-channel volumetric infusion pump made by Colleague and Colleague CX. A software malfunction may sound an alarm in the device, showing an error code 16:310:867:0002, which will stop infusing.An electronic infusion pump delivers controlled amounts of medicine or other fluids to patients...

• Three More Chinese Toy Recalls

  Jenny Albano | July 09, 2007 11:42 AM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR

  The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced three more Chinese toy recalls. Children's jewelry sets were recalled because they contained lead, and a magnetic building set and plastic castles were recalled because they could be a choking hazard to children.Around 20,000 sets of Essentials for Kids Jewelry were recalled because they were found to have high levels of lead in them, which...