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• Man’s Wife Moved To Nursing Home 1,000 Miles Away Without Permission

  Eddie Farah | December 25, 2008 11:33 PM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL

  This is an incredible story and sounds like it could end up in court for violating the rights of the elderly. A St. Augustine, Florida man says that on Christmas eve, his 65-year-old wife was moved...

• New Pool Drain Covers Mandated Nationwide By Friday

  Eddie Farah | December 18, 2008 11:19 PM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL

  Beginning Saturday, pools and spas that do not have the required anti-drowning drain covers could be forced to close down. The improved safety system was passed by Congress last year and pool and...

• Let The Games Begin - 709 Ballots Rejected So Far

  Eddie Farah | November 01, 2008 9:18 PM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL

  Remember the hanging chads from the 2000 election and the dysfunctional voting machines that registered the exact opposite candidate than a person voted for in 2004? Florida is a battleground state...

• JAMA Favors Consumers In Upcoming Levine Pre-emption Case

  Eddie Farah | October 27, 2008 11:22 PM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL

  Coming up next week before the U.S. Supreme Court is an issue that affects all Americans who take any kind of prescription drug from time to time – that would be virtually all of us. The case...

• Angry Investors File Suit

  Eddie Farah | October 14, 2008 12:20 AM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL

  A wave of class action lawsuits has begun by angry shareholders who invested in two mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. They allege that stock underwriters hid the true numbers on the...

• DUI Mom Will Go To Prison For 9 Years For Killing Son

  Eddie Farah | October 03, 2008 9:33 PM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL

  A 32-yer-old Jacksonville woman will be spending close to nine years in prison for driving drunk and killing her son in the crash that followed. Last April, Angela Harper was was drunk driving at...

• Red-Light Runners- Smile Your On Candid Camera

  Eddie Farah | September 03, 2008 11:42 PM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL

  Those who feel compelled to run red lights have a new challenge in Florida. This week a new technology will take images of red-light runners and automatically issue them a ticket. The new...

• As Another Tropical Storm Approaches Florida- A Warning About Roads

  Eddie Farah | August 29, 2008 12:29 AM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL

  Tropical Storm Fay which just passed through our area took a number of lives, including a teenage girl who was the head of her class as Paxon. In fact four of the Faye deaths involved motorists...

• Uninsured Benefit From Right To Know Act

  Eddie Farah | August 23, 2008 10:15 AM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL

  Beginning January 1, 2009, the Health Care Consumer’s Right to Information Act will provide medical consumers with reliable and understandable information about health care charges so a patient...

• Cleaning Up A Jacksonville Environmental Hazard

  Eddie Farah | August 16, 2008 2:03 AM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL

  From the 1890s until 1978, the old Kerr-McGee property in Jacksonville was home to a fertilizer and chemical plant. Now the site encorporates the polluted Talleyrand waterfront area. The land is...