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• Compulsive Gambling and Mirapex Verdict $8.2 Million

  Eddie Farah | August 02, 2008 1:33 PM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL

  A drug given to treat Parkinson’s disease and restless leg syndrome is the focus of a number of trials underway in the District Court of Minneapolis. More than 200 plaintiffs are taking their case...

• Motorcyclists Ride Proud, Dress Loud in Florida

  Eddie Farah | July 26, 2008 11:10 PM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL

  You might just see a biker wearing bright chartreuse jeans riding down the highway. The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles and the Florida Rider Training Program have launched...

• Botox Lawsuit Filed For Unapproved Uses

  Eddie Farah | July 19, 2008 12:35 PM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL

  Allergan, the maker of Botox Cosmetic, makes about $1.2 billion a year from the drug. Plenty to fight the lawsuits that are filed by users who claim they were injured or by survivors of Botox...

• High School Football Hero Killed By Train

  Eddie Farah | May 23, 2008 10:51 PM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL

  Mourners from Orange Park, Florida said goodbye this week to a Clay County, Florida athlete killed in a train accident. Wes Whiddon, 17, and two friends were fishing from a train trestle right...

• Dog Who Bit Toddler Gets Reprieve

  Eddie Farah | July 10, 2007 10:32 PM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL

  It is a scene that is not often seen.A dog bites a toddler in the face. The child is rushed to the hospital and needs extensive reconstructivesurgery. Usually the dog is put to sleep. Not this time. This time the dog, a 100 lb. bull mastiff, will be returned to his St. Johns County family.It's an unusual turn of events, to say the least.Law enforcement reports that last Friday, the 2-year-old...

• Police Say Cyclist Caused Tractor-Trailer Crash

  Eddie Farah | April 13, 2007 11:39 PM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL

  You see them all the time on the road--cyclists who sometimes follow the rules of the road--sometimes do not. Something went terribly wrong Wednesday evening when 18-year-old Ronald Dale of Waycross, Georgia failed to stop at a sign and that began a chain of events resulting in the death of a female motorist. 33-year old Sarah Elaine Cribb Poss was just trying to avoid Dale. She did, but lost...

• Legislature May Reform PIP

  Eddie Farah | April 05, 2007 11:08 PM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL

  We see it every day. A person injured in an auto accident goes to the doctor for common pains that result. Even without health insurance, Personal Injury Protection or PIP, which every person pays for as part of their auto policy, can mean the difference between finding problems or letting chronic conditions go undiagnosed. But the insurance lobby wants to get rid of PIP and the up to $10,000...

• Soft drink makers settle suit

  Eddie Farah | August 29, 2006 8:10 PM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL

  Coco-Cola Co. recently was sued a District of Columbia Superior Court as part of an effort to force soft drink makers to eliminate ingredients benzene, which has been linked to leukemia.Similar suits are pending in Federal court in Kansas, Massachusetts and New Jersey; and in state court in Florida and California."Benzene can form in soft drinks, which contain vitamin C and either sodium...

• Supreme Court Lets Stand Ford Explorer $82.6 Million Verdict

  Eddie Farah | December 01, 2009 4:37 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  In 2002, a San Diego woman lost her ability to walk after her Ford Explorer rolled over and its roof collapsed, severing her spine. She was awarded $369 million by jurors who listened to the...

• 11-Year-Old Dies After Pellet Gun Blast To Chest

  Eddie Farah | November 23, 2009 11:56 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Mitchell D.J. Maxwell, 11, of Waycross, Georgia, was at a sleep over Friday night with two other boys at the football coach’s home when he was shot in the chest with a .177-caliber pellet gun....