- Eddie Farah | December 29, 2007 11:31 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsJacksonville Sheriff's Office would like your help in solving a mystery on the northside. Someone is throwing large objects and damaging cars. JSO reports at least two drivers called police after something was thrown at their car. The incidents happened early Saturday morning on Lem Turner Road. Pamela Chambers is one person who called police. She was driving home from work when something...
- Eddie Farah | December 29, 2007 1:33 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsThe Christmas season is supposed to bring good cheer, but eleven people and their families suffered tragedy this holiday season.3,877 crashes killed 11 on state roadways according to the Georgia Department of Public Safety. Altogether 893 were injured. Believe it or not, the predictions had been that as many as 25 would be killed on Georgia roads during the four-day-holiday. Falling short on...
- Eddie Farah | December 28, 2007 11:12 PM |
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Automobile Accidents'Tis the time of year to remember old friends and ring in the new year with celebrations. But if you celebrate too much you will spend time behind bars. And we're not talking about your local watering hole.The Florida Highway Patrol plans a statewide traffic enforcement plan for New Year's Eve. Expect "Zero Tolerance" from troopers throughout the state. Troopers will be looking for speeding,...
- Eddie Farah | December 26, 2007 11:58 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsWhile in Australia, they are celebrating a return of the new improved toy, Aqua Dots, in the U.S. there is still a ban on the product.But that hasn't stopped a few unscrupulus importers from trying to bring them into this country- especially just before Christmas. Fortunately border agents confiscated shipments in Savannah, Seattle, International Falls, Minnesota and Norfolk just in time. But...
- Eddie Farah | December 21, 2007 9:04 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsA road in Baker County will be named to honor Kimberly Brannan, the principal of Westside Elementary who died in November in an auto accident on I-10. Brannan was the principal for the last four years and taught for over a decade there.A ceremony at the school this week brought out Glen St. Mary parents, citizens, children and teachers to honor principal Brannan. The school will also dedicate a...
- Eddie Farah | December 20, 2007 10:04 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsFord says it intends to appeal a $3 million judgment against the automaker for a faulty Ford Tempo seat design.The adult children of an Augusta woman, 76-year-old Mary Reese who died when her Ford was rear-ended filed the suit in Cobb County, just one of 70 lawsuits that Ford is facing over the Tempo's front seat that breaks from its supports and ends up in the back seat in rear-enders.There...
- Eddie Farah | December 19, 2007 6:29 PM |
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Workplace InjuriesIt happened just before 2 p.m.A "hellish inferno" erupted at a chemical company on the Northside of Jacksonville. As of last count, four are dead and 22 are injured many were transported to local hospitals. Tonight reports are everyone has been accounted for. More than 100 firefighters were called to the industrial facility on Faye Road and tonight there are still hot spots they are fighting....
- Eddie Farah | December 15, 2007 10:43 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsIt's amazing no one was killed.Early Saturday morning about 2 a.m., 48-year-old Jeffrey Francis of St. Augustine was driving north on I-95. Problem is he was driving north in the southbound lane.Just about two miles south of CR-210 Francis' Mercedes clipped the side of a van being driven by Bonita Poindexter, 47, of Gladehill, Virginia.The van spun around from the impact and hit another car...
- Eddie Farah | December 13, 2007 8:15 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsMaybe it's the warm weather that is bringing out more motorcycles on our roads.But unfortunately we have two accidents to report from unrelated accidents. One man is dead.On Wednesday a man was killed riding on San Jose Boulevard in front of Super Wal-Mart. He has been identified as Jay M. Schmidt of Jacksonville.Schmidt was hit by a Cadillac that turned in his path being driven by 81-year old...
- Eddie Farah | December 13, 2007 1:03 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsMerck has announced a voluntary recall for a drug used to fight bacterial meningitis in children.The vaccine is known as Hib. It is given in a three-dose shot for children under the age of five.Merck, the maker, says some bacteria contaminated a processing plant for the vaccine in Pennsylvania, although the company says none of the vaccine lots were contaminated.The company says they brought...
- Eddie Farah | December 13, 2007 12:48 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsIt happened Wednesday late afternoon, a beautiful day for a jog.17-year-old Jordan Rachael Williams was killed while she ran near the intersection of Kernan and Hunters Haven Lane. Two vehicles struck Williams. Only the first one stopped. Williams was reportedly waiting for the traffic to clear off Kernan. The FHP says she ran half way across the street and was jogging in place in the median...
- Eddie Farah | December 07, 2007 11:19 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsCall it a must have for the future of safe cars and their drivers.Topping the list of Top 10 Auto Safety Features for the Future by Forbes Auto is Stability Control.ESC or electronic stability control in a passenger car translates to 35 percent fewer single car crashes than those without. For about $100 per vehicle basic ESC could be put in all vehicles mass produced according to NHTSA. Only...
- Eddie Farah | December 07, 2007 11:34 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsA class action lawsuit involving 800,000 Ford Explorer owners may be over.A Sacramento County judge has tentatively accepted a deal to settle the cases stemming from the bad publicity the vehicle received over rollover dangers. That caused the vehicle to decline in value and owners from four states joined in the class action.Anyone who bought an Explorer from 1991 to 2001 may be eligible for a...
- Eddie Farah | December 06, 2007 7:38 AM |
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Workplace InjuriesIt happened around 6 a.m. this morning as workers were pouring cement to be used for the new Berkman Plaza II tower.On the fifth and sixth floor of a parking garage next to the area the levels of the walls began collapsing like dominos. Tne entire structure fell upon itself and it looks like a bomb went off.Because it happened at 6am during a shift change, worried loved ones are desperately...
- Eddie Farah | December 05, 2007 11:20 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsThe Florida Highway Patrol wants to know who hit and killed a pedestrian and left him lying north of Sawgrass Village Drive in the heart of Ponte Vedra Beach.The body of 38-year old Charles Lee Foster was found lying in the northbound lane of A!A just north of Thousand Oaks Boulevard just a little after 2 a.m. Wednesday. Friends identified Foster as living about three miles a way. Someone told...
- Eddie Farah | December 01, 2007 2:43 PM |
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MiscellaneousA man is still hospitalized after falling five stories of a cruise ship.The unidentified man was on a Norweigan cruise ship coming from Key West to Charleston, South Carolina. He reportedly fell from the eighth story and onto the lower deck of the ship. He was airlifted about ten miles off shore and taken to the trauma center at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami.The man's alcohol consumption...
- Eddie Farah | December 01, 2007 12:49 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsAs if losing your child is not bad enough, Carol Enlow now faces losing the home the single mother has worked hard to provide her family.And the tragic turn of her life all happened in a few seconds.Her daughter, 17-year-old Kim Enlow of Callahan was driving to Cold Stone last August to get some ice cream with a friend sitting next to her and more friends following in another car. They never...