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• Foster Kids Put On Drugs At Alarming Rates

  Eddie Farah | May 31, 2009 10:26 PM | 3 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  A new report by the state finds that hundreds of kids in foster care have been placed on psychiatric drugs by their caregivers in Northeast Florida. What’s especially shocking is that no one...

• New Policy For Beach-Driving Leaves Public Vulnerable

  Eddie Farah | May 29, 2009 12:09 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  We reported earlier this month about a Jacksonville Beach police SUV that accidentally ran over a woman who was sunbathing. She was in very critical condition and is just now able to speak. The...

• Three-Year-Old Dies In Lake City Pool As Swim Season Begins

  Eddie Farah | May 21, 2009 6:29 PM | 1 Comments
  Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)

  A three-year-old child drowned Sunday afternoon, May 17, in a swimming pool in the back yard of a home in Lake City. He was scooped from the pool and taken to a local hospital where was pronounced...

• Floridians Receive Confirmation of Defective Chinese-Made Wallboard

  Eddie Farah | May 20, 2009 8:21 PM | 1 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Reports of sulfur smelling homes and corroded wiring have been coming into the Florida Department of Health since December. Now there is official federal confirmation that the Chinese-made...

• NTSB Investigation Into Flight That Killed Jacksonville Law Student

  Eddie Farah | May 14, 2009 9:00 PM | 3 Comments
  Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)

  Jacksonville has a connection to the airline crash that is the focus of a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) hearing. A local law student was one of the 49 passengers aboard who died when...

• Mom Sentenced In Wreck That Killed Son

  Eddie Farah | May 13, 2009 10:46 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  A Jacksonville mother has a long time to think about that day in March of 2008. She was speeding on a rain-slicked road, with her nine-year-old son in the car. Police estimate she may have...

• Speeding Public Officials Face Charges After Fatalities

  Eddie Farah | May 09, 2009 12:44 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  They are sworn to protect the public, but instead these individuals are being charged with endangering it. Criminal charges will be filed against a Jacksonville Sheriff’s officer and a...

• Falling Television Kills Child

  Eddie Farah | May 08, 2009 1:18 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  It was an incredibly sad story this week when little four-year-old Dymounique Wilson died after a television fell on her in her Jacksonville home. Wednesday night her mother, Samara Brinkley,...

• Officer Drives SUV Over Woman In The Sand

  Eddie Farah | May 02, 2009 8:38 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  The woman run over by a police SUV while she was lying on the sand is reported to be in critical condition. The Jacksonville Beach police officer was on patrol and driving a sport utility vehicle,...