Defective & Dangerous Products

• Defective Product Makes Health Enthusiasts Sick

  Eddie Farah | July 31, 2008 10:27 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  An Athens, Georgia couple who wanted to be fit, instead got sick. They took the product called Total Body Formula which, along with the Total Body Mega Formula, have been recalled. It may still be...

• 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...

• The State of Florida Wants You To Quit!

  Eddie Farah | May 08, 2008 10:50 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  The state of Florida is spending about 58 million to get you to kick the habit. Any Floridian who qualified because of income can obtain the stop smoking aids for up to eight weeks. Call...

• Two Gas Stations Fined Half Million for Shorting Customers

  Eddie Farah | March 01, 2008 11:32 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  You could say that two Kingsland truck stops were busted this month.Two weeks after state inspectors found that the pumps were shorting customers in the amount of gasoline they pumped, the fuels are now flowing after the owner agreed to pay a $500,000 fine.On February 12th there was actually a fuel pump lock down at the two stations.That was done by the Georgie Department of Agriculture which...

• MySpace Teens in Trouble for Felony Child Pornography

  Eddie Farah | January 17, 2008 1:37 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  A young teen poses nude and a friend put the image on their MySpace page. It probably happens more often than us parents would like to think. Afterall social networking is an easy way to stay connected to people and avoid the unpleasantries of face to face encounters.But a Jacksonville Beach teen could be facing felony child pornography charges after the innocent prank.The mother of a Fletcher...

• Friday Deadline for Thousands of Tobacco Cases

  Eddie Farah | January 11, 2008 3:17 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  An estimated 5,000 to 10,000 cases will be filed in Florida courts today under a deadline set to file lawsuits for smoking related illnesses. A 2006 state Supreme Court decision decertified a class-action punative verdict of $145 billion, the largest award ever granted against the tobacco companies, but directed injured smokers to file individual lawsuits.Smokers all over Florida who got sick...

• Aqua Dots Confiscated at the Borders

  Eddie Farah | December 26, 2007 11:58 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  While 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...

• Ford Explorer Lawsuit Tentative Settlement

  Eddie Farah | December 07, 2007 11:34 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  A 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...

• Second Taser Death in Two Days

  Eddie Farah | November 21, 2007 1:29 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  We've been told that tasers are a useful tool for law enforcement to subdue agitated people.But in the last two days in Jacksonville, tasering has resulted in two deaths.In the latest case, a man got into a wreck in the Springfield area Tuesday afternoon. The driver then got out of his vehicle and began fighting with another man. The sheriff's office now says the man, Conrad Purvis Lowman, 35,...

• Toxic Toys Recalled Again

  Eddie Farah | November 07, 2007 11:26 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Wal-Mart thought Aqua Dots were so cool that the toy made the Top 12 List for Christmas.The Canadian distributed toy has been on store shelves since April.Now about four million Aqua Dot toys are being recalled because they contain a chemical that can, if ingested, lead to coma or seizures.You guessed it- the chemical beads are made in China.The toy is a craft item and comes with small dots or...