Miscellaneous

• Smoke alarm will save your life

  Jessica Grigsby | February 22, 2011 1:24 PM | 2 CommentsChico, CA

  Smoke alarms save lives. They provide an early warning in the event of a fire and allow yourself and your family to get to safety should a fire begin. In 2009, there was an estimated 1,348,500...

• Kingsport, TN Priest Accused of Child Sex Abuse

  Chad Trammell | February 22, 2011 12:03 PM | 1 CommentTexarkana, AR

  Crumbled Trust You are supposed to be able to trust your priest or other spiritual leader and lean on them for advice. Your priest is supposed to be available as a resource to guide you through...

• Roche Insulin Delivery Systems Recalls ACCU-CHEK® Infusion Sets

  Greg Owen | February 22, 2011 10:10 AM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  Roche Insulin Delivery Systems announced today that it is notifying its customers and healthcare professionals about the recall of the ACCU-CHEK® FlexLink Plus infusion set, because of the...

• Greed Is Toxic: Ask Allstate and JP Morgan

  Mark Bello | February 22, 2011 9:36 AM | 8 CommentsFarmington Hills, MI

  Allstate Insurance Corp., the largest publicly-traded U.S. home and auto insurer, is the latest “investor” to square off against the banking industry over mortgage-backed securities....

• Tennessee's Governor Seeks to Increase Insurance Company Profits

  John Lowery | February 21, 2011 4:21 PM | 0 CommentsNashville, TN

  It is commonly called tort reform but make no mistake, when corporate water carriers propose limits on injury damages, what they are really advocating is cost containment for their friends in the...

• Breast Cancer - Lymph Node Study: Fewer Nodes Should Be Removed…

  Greg Webb | February 21, 2011 2:54 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  The latest study results on breast cancer surgery were released two weeks ago finding that fewer lymph nodes should be removed in the case of a cancer that has not spread too far, compared with that...

• Nursing Home Population Gets Younger In Texas

  Beth Janicek | February 21, 2011 1:02 PM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  The San Antonio Express News reported Monday that over the last 8 years, more individuals aged 31-64 have entered nursing homes than the traditional population of elderly residents. In Texas, those...

• Three Injured in Ridgecrest Collision

  Rick Patterson | February 21, 2011 1:01 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  At 12:23 p.m. Thursday, a 2007 Toyota Camry driven by Bahzad Ali of Fort Irwin was traveling south on China Lake Boulevard and stopped at the intersection of Highway 395 in the Ridgecrest area. Ali...

• Question Your Lawyer

  Pete Burns | February 21, 2011 11:11 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  We entrust some of our most important matters to attorneys. If the attorney you hire fails to properly represent you will you be able to recover your damages from your attorney? Most attorneys have...

• H.R. 5: Political Chronyism At Its Best

  Michael Phelan | February 19, 2011 8:56 PM | 5 CommentsRichmond, VA

  My favorite author, Ayn Rand, believed that the enemies of free market capitalism included communists/socialists and politicians who practiced chronyism. The vast majority of Americans agree that...