- Eddie Farah | June 30, 2007 10:18 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsIt was origionally assumed that toothpaste from China, tainted with an antifreeze ingredient, would be found in discount stores.But a search is finding the tainted tubes in hospitals, homes for the mentally ill, prisons, jeuvenile detention centers throughout Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida.Altogether roughly 900,000 tubes were handed out in dozens of state institutions that...
- Eddie Farah | June 29, 2007 2:05 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsAnd we're sorry to report that another young woman lost her life on Jacksonville area roads this week.It happened in Green Cove Springs on State Road 16, near Reynolds Industrial Park.Around 11:20 Wednesday morning, June 27, Leila J. Davis turned into the path of an oncoming cement truck.The pregnant 37 year old and her unborn child died instantly, police believe.The St. Augustine Beach woman,...
- Eddie Farah | June 28, 2007 6:52 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsShe was just 21- years old. Stacie Long was reportedly driving west on Park Street in Jacksonville just after 2 a.m. early Wednesday morning, June 27th. Police say there was a flashing red light, indicating she should stop.Unfortunately she didn't.Long collided with a big rig carrying cars that was traveling south on Cassat Avenue. Police aren't sure whether the driver even slowed down for...
- Eddie Farah | June 26, 2007 8:32 AM |
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MiscellaneousIt was a victory for everyone and proved the legal system works the way it is supposed to.Judge Roy pearson had sued a Washington D.C. dry cleaner saying they lost his pair of pants and the inconvenience should be compensated $67 million dollars!A judge hearing the case has now shot down that argument allowing the dry cleaner to be compensated $1,000 for court costs and to motion for legal fees....
- Eddie Farah | June 23, 2007 4:27 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsIt was a crowded rush hour road and one distracted driver that proved the fatal formula for Lesley Beers in 2004 in West Palm Beach.Her husband filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the company in whose care the distracted driver, Sheila Hulick was talking on the phone.Thursday, a jury agreed. After two hours of deliberations, they awarded Stephen Beers $21.6 million for the wrongful death of...
- Eddie Farah | June 20, 2007 7:33 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsHe is supposed to be upholding the law. Instead a Jacksonville police sergeant is facing drunk driving charges and has been suspended.37- year old Patrol Sgt. Charles Harold Ford, 37, was taken into custody following a 3 am Sunday crash on Atlantic Boulevard when he tried to make a U-turn and was hit by an oncoming car. No one was injured in the crash. Officers said Ford's breath smelled like...
- Eddie Farah | June 20, 2007 6:22 AM |
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MiscellaneousRoyal Caribbean has turned around its cruise ship, Freedom of the Seas, after a man was reported missing about 8:30 Tuesday morning.The 24-year old was travelling with his family among more than 4,000 passengers sailing from Miami to Puerto Rico.He was last seen early Monday morning on a balcony outside his room.The ship turned around to help the Coast Guard in the search. We are determining how...
- Eddie Farah | June 19, 2007 6:23 PM |
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Medical Malpractice"My life has changed- my wife is gone."That what Archibal Coaile says about his wife of 30 years, Rosario, who died after doctors at the hospital failed to recognize and treat a brain aneurysm, which he alleges killed her in December, 2005.In announcing a $17 million lawsuit, Coaile said his 58-year old wife should be alive today and would be if emergency room doctors had properly evaluated her....
- Eddie Farah | June 15, 2007 1:18 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeIt's not a very good record by any definition. Florida's Board of Medicine has a poor showing in efforts to crack down on doctors who harm patients.The survey comes from Public Citizen, the watchdog group founded by Ralph Nader and based in Washington, D.C. Florida ranks 35th in serious disciplinary action per 1,000 physicians, as surveyed from 2004 through 2006. That below-average ranking is...
- Eddie Farah | June 14, 2007 8:52 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsIt was all Christine Olson could think of after the traffic accident death of her 22-year old daughter, Tiffiany.How could she help other families, hearing their loved one was in a traffic accident, quickly find out where the victim had been taken and their condition?When Tiffiany was thrown from a 2002 Kawasaki motorcycle, on which she was riding as a passenger in December 2005, all Christine...
- Eddie Farah | June 11, 2007 7:00 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsIt's an area we've written about before.State Road 200 in Nassau County, where logging trucks and semis pass regularly and at a high rate of speed. This time a man driving a pickup truck was killed around 3 a.m. in a wreck that involved two tractor-trailers and two logging trucks and closed S.R. 200 for close to eight hours. No word on why the unidentified pickup driver lost control of his...
- Eddie Farah | June 10, 2007 7:56 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsAmazingly no one was hurt Saturday evening, when a single-engine plane lost its engine power and took a nose-dive into Jacksonville Beach.The temperatures were in the 90's all day and the beach had plenty of weekenders trying to enjoy their day. Shortly after 5 p.m. a plane, travelling north seemed to be having trouble. Jacksonville Beach Police Sgt. Tom Bingham says the plane was returning to...
- Eddie Farah | June 06, 2007 9:19 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsIt was 5:35 pm, on the usually congested San Jose Boulevard. The date was May 5th.Someone pulled their car into the same lane where 50-year-old Dale Whaley was riding his Harley-Davidson. Whaley was not wearing a helmet when he went flying over the vehicle. He ended up in a medically induced coma with a swollen brain and a pile of mounting medical bills. The hit-and-run driver sped off and...
- Eddie Farah | June 05, 2007 3:53 PM |
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Automobile Accidents24-year old Darryl D. Green of Philadelphia was on a St. Augustine street early Sunday morning when he was hit by a white SUV or truck. The driver took off. Green was taken to the hospital but later died from his injuries. Green was legally blind. The last thing his friends heard was the drop of Green's cell phone that ended his conversation trying to find his way back to the hotel to join...
- Eddie Farah | June 04, 2007 10:24 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsThe Bush Administration had a plan. Allow U.S. highways to be open, under our trade agreements, to Mexican trucks and truckers. Problem was the safety standards were lax or non-existent for vehicles south of the border. We'd be opening up our borders and our roads to a myriad of potential problems with no way to track the truckers.As Congress was voting on the supplemental Iraq funding bill...
- Eddie Farah | June 03, 2007 9:55 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsThere have been three cases of mad cow disease discovered in bovines in the U.S. one as recent as last year that cost the U.S. meat industry billions in exports. And humans do not want to consume that meat. Period. A cruel brain wasting disease, CJD, has afflicted many mostly in Britain, and a horrible death is certain.So why would our government NOT want to test more cows in this country?Is it...
- Eddie Farah | June 01, 2007 7:57 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsA slap on the wrist.That is how the mother of a 14-year old, killed in a hit and run accident, described todays 15 day sentence of the driver.Just three days ago, Kizzy James admitted she left the scene after hitting and killing David Durden Jr. as he was crossing Atlantic Boulevard on an unlicensed pocket bike, March 2, 2006. The Florida Highway Patrol found James four days later through her...