- Chrissie Cole | January 07, 2011 8:24 AM | Wilmington, NC
Category:
FDA & Prescription Drugs
A voluntary recall of Metronidazole Tablets USP was announced yesterday by Teva Pharmaceuticals, due to the presence of underweight tablets.
If a tablet is underweight, it may not contain the...
- Pierce Egerton | July 14, 2009 6:59 AM | Greensboro, NC
Category:
Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released a statement Monday containing “Urgent Safety Recommendations” for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) in...
- Emily Mapp Brannon | June 29, 2009 1:25 PM | Greenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC
Category:
Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
Although the NTSB will continue to investigate the DC metro accident, there appears to be a whole new crop of concerns over the country’s many other mass transit systems, and...
- Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton | June 28, 2009 2:14 PM | Greenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC
Category:
Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
Investigators are examining almost 3,000 circuits on Washington D.C.’s Metro as they try to discover any irregularities or breaks near where the trained crashed earlier this week that...
- Rick Shapiro | June 28, 2009 12:09 PM | Greenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC
Category:
Miscellaneous
D.C.’s mass transit system officials are going to inspect every inch of its tracks after Monday's deadly metro accident. As we speak federal investigators are attempting to figure...
- Jim Lewis | June 28, 2009 8:35 AM | Greenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC
Category:
Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has announced that their investigators have found a signaling system failure in their testing. This signal was suppose to detect a...
- Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton | June 28, 2009 1:32 AM | Greenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC
Category:
Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
The Mayor of Washington D.C., Adrian Fenty, has been reported saying that this week’s fatal collision of two Metro subway trains illustrates the need for officials who operate...
- Emily Mapp Brannon | June 27, 2009 12:04 AM | Greenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC
Category:
Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
It has been discovered that safety watchdogs warned Washington's metro operators three years ago about the inherent weaknesses with regards to the aging subway cars like the one involved in...
- Jim Lewis | June 22, 2009 10:55 PM | Greenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC
Category:
Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
Tragedy struck in Washington D.C. at the height of rush hour with a fatal Metrorail transit train collision where one train smashed into the back of another one. So, far there are at least 6...
- Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton | May 13, 2009 5:37 AM | Greenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC
Category:
Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
The steel rail from Charlotte to the coast that was synonymous with progress when its tracks were first laid in the 1850s is once again on the front-burner to the state's plans - and once again...