Miscellaneous

• Lost Pant Suit Defeated

  Eddie Farah | June 26, 2007 8:32 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  It 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....

• Cruise Ship Passenger Missing Off Florida Coast

  Eddie Farah | June 20, 2007 6:22 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Royal 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...

• St. Johns Sheriff's Office Crack-down on Student Threats

  Eddie Farah | April 23, 2007 6:59 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  School officials aren't fooling around when it comes to copy-cat threats following the massacre at Virginia Tech. A 14-year-old high school student from Bartram Trail has been arrested after he allegedly threatened to kill 100 people.The student is alleged to have sent the threat via e-mail to a female friend. He said he planned to best the 33 killed last week at Virginia Tech. Luckily the...

• Katrina Trial Accuses Allstate of Bad Faith

  Eddie Farah | April 14, 2007 12:26 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  A trial that is underway in Louisiana underscores the on-going and as yet unsettled debate about just how much and what kind of hurricane damage insurance will untimately cover. This is only the second Katrina trial to take place in a Louisiana federal court and that question of coverage is still unanswered. Better hurry up- Florida's hurricane season is about to begin June 1st. Allstate...

• School Hires Felons To Complete Construction

  Eddie Farah | March 28, 2007 5:27 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  It almost sounds like a comedy skit on Jay Leno. The president of the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind in St. Augustine says he couldn't find a "felon-free" crew to complete construction on campus including the girl's dormitory.Is it that tough to find reliable workers in Florida? This despite the fact that school employees have been complaining for nine months that the school is showing a...

• WellPoint, Blue Cross May Have Lost Medical Data

  Eddie Farah | March 14, 2007 5:36 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Blue Cross Blue Shield is not going to be asking what Brown can do for it anytime soon.It seems a CD with personal and medical information on 75,000 clients of WellPoint has disappeared. WellPoint, is an independent licensee of Blue's New York unit, Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield. It's making the uncomfortable calls to members that their social security numbers as well as account numbers,...

• Merck Lobbies Hard for Schoolgirl Vaccine

  Eddie Farah | February 08, 2007 9:49 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Do we really think that drug maker, Merck & Co has totally benevolent motives in pushing its new drug, Gardasil to state lawmakers and parents of teenage girls? Merck is bankrolling lobbyists and state lawmakers to push for state laws making the drug a required immunization, like whopping cough and tetanus, for millions of schoolgirls as young as 11 or 12 to guard against cervical cancer caused...

• Mystery Illness Aboard Cruise Ship

  Eddie Farah | February 02, 2007 10:49 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  The Centers for Disease Control wants to know what sickened more than 100 people aboard a Holland-American ship, Volendam that returned to Port Everglades this week from a Carribean cruise. Passengers had gastrointestinal distress including diarrhea and vomiting. While the majority of passengers said they felt fine, about 7.5 percent of the passengers suffered from the outbreak. The ship...

• Global Warming Strengthens Hurricanes

  Eddie Farah | February 01, 2007 10:40 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Adding drama to the message, Paris darkened the Eiffel Tower Thursday as the strongest warning yet that global warming is to be blamed on man.Hundreds of climate scientists meeting in Paris issued the gloomy forcast - human activity is warming the planet leading to rising temperatures and sea levels. Scientists and representatives of 113 governments make up the gathering, convened to study...

• Nicotine in Cigarettes

  Eddie Farah | January 18, 2007 8:11 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Once again studies have confirmed a significant increase in nicotine levels in cigarettes. This time the report comes from Harvard School of Public Health. Their report found that increases in smoke nicotine yield per cigarette averaged 1.6 percent each year for a total of about 11 percent over a seven-year period, 1997 to 2005.This is the result of a study of over a 100 brands of cigarettes,...