News in category: On The Road

Bruce Rossmeyer, one of the nation's largest Harley-Davidson dealers and a supporter of charitable causes that helped children, was killed Thursday in a motorcycle crash in Wyoming.

Legislation introduced Wednesday would withhold federal highway funds from states that do not ban texting while driving, known to be more distracting than driving under the influence. States would lose 25 percent of the federal highway funds, until the funds were depleted, if they failed to enact the ban.  

For $250,000, a group of volunteers bring $1.5 million worth of free medical care to residents of 16 states who are without insurance or underinsured. Volunteers plan to keep traveling around the country.  In some instances, health care is delivered in animal stalls not unlike a Third World country. 

The Cancer Project, a nonprofit, would like processed meats such as hot dogs, to be labeled with a warning of a link to colorectal and other cancers. Regular consumption of hot dogs preserved with nitrosamines have been cited by numerous cancer researchers. The food manufacturers deny any link. 

Health care reform in the U.S. is heating up with three bills being considered by Congress and President Obama addressing the nation tonight. Requiring everyone to purchase insurance is a common thread, while a system that eliminates insurance companies as middle men is advocated by many physicians, including the president's former physician. 

There are an estimated 300,000 public pools in hotels, schools, camps and parks and half of them may have failed to install the new required anti-entrapment devices.  Learn what to look for in your kiddie wading pool or hotel pool this summer. 

When Boston trolley operator Aiden Quinn ran into a trolley ahead of him last May, he admitted he was texting his girlfriend.  Today the 24-year-old was arraigned and could spend three years in prison for gross negligence operating a train.

Southwest Airlines Flight 2294 from Nashville to Baltimore had to make an emergency landing in West Virginia after a hole opened up in the rear fuselage of the plane. No one was injured but all 187 of the jets in its flight will undergo an inspection.  

The World Health Organization says the swine flu is "unstoppable" and that healthcare workers should be the first ones vaccinated. This influenza is different from seasonal flu in that it affects young people, the severely obese, and adults and strikes deep in the lungs and drug makers are receiving millions to formulate a vaccine. 

Wendell Potter used to talk to reporters on behalf of Big Insurance but after almost 20 years, he knew something wasn't right. Now he's speaking about Big Insurance to Congress, reporters, and on Bill Moyers tonight, telling insider secrets and adding a diverse voice to the health care reform debate.   He gives a insurance insider preview to IB News.

General Motors passed another hurdle as it heads toward a sale free and clear of product liability claims by some 300 individuals. The judge says the sale is in the best interest of creditors and GM and is a better alternative to liquidation. 

OSHA is opening a probe into what killed a monorail operator at Walt Disney World in Florida. 21-year-old Austin Wuennenberg’s died Sunday when a monorail crashed into a second one around 2.a.m. It is the first death ever in the history of the monorail.

All sunscreens are not created equal and the Environmental Working Group, a reliable nonprofit, sorts it all out. Surprisingly, three out of five brand-name sunscreens don't make the grade - either they don't protect the skin or contain chemicals you don't want.

The CDC is working on a vaccination campaign to encourage all 300 million Americans be vacciniated against the swine flu which health officials admit cannot be contained. 

The FDA has received so many reports of Chantix and Zyban users experiencing depression, hostility, agitation, and suicidal thoughts and commiting acts of suicide, that today the agency issued a Public Health Advisory that the smoking cessation drugs will be required to carry a stronger warning label.