A Missouri drunk driver gets probation sentence for aDUI accident that killed a man. Some call this lessened sentence a dramatic turn of events. The Missouri woman entered a plea deal Monday which resulted in probation for two years for a wrong-way crash that killed a St. Louis man. In February of 2012, the…
Kellogg has made arecall on their Eggo waffles after routine testing lead to the discovery of possible contamination. The contamination concern is Listeria, a pathogenic bacterium that can be deadly especially for children or people with a weak immune system. The symptoms are similar to the flu in which someone affected can produce a…
The FDA has issued a warning about the increased risks of infections and allergic reactions associated withtattoo ink. As the tattoo industry grows to a billion dollar business, the FDA has seen a dramatic increase in complaints. According to the agency officials, there is not one tattoo ink even approved for use in tattooing…
Missouri is not the only state that has seen a rise indistracted drivers. The state of Ohio is dealing with a dangerous number of traffic accidents caused by distracted drivers. Distracted driving is a dangerous and an unacceptable behavior that plagues the roadways in our country. A recent study reveals more than two-thirds of…
Four people were killed in a tragicbus accident on a North Carolina highway earlier this month. The bus was carrying a South Carolina junior college football team and some of their family members when a tire blew out, according to a North Carolina State Trooper. Officials say a child was among the fatalities as…
While there are many reasons for a driver to be distracted including eating, drinking, using maps, talking to passengers. Perhaps one of the most obvious driving distractions of our time is the use of Smartphones. Whether it be emailing, texting, talking, or Pokemon Go, this one device alone gives drivers the temptation to avert…
A St. Louis roofer has died more than a month after a tragicconstruction accident in which he fell into a kettle of burning tar. The 66-year-old man died last Wednesday after spending over a month in a medically induced coma. The roofer was working on a one-story University City building when he fell off…
Several Ohio residents were killed in a Floridatraffic accident just outside Panama City. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, five central Ohio residents were involved in a crash last weekend, in Bay County. The Florida Highway Patrol says around midnight on Saturday a vehicle carrying Panama City residents inside, was southbound on Pine Tree…
Everyone walking on or near a roadway is a pedestrian. The CDC reported that in 2013, 19% of all pedestrian deaths were sixty-five years and older. Death for pedestrians 14 and younger was one out of every five. Statistically speaking, these are the two groups most at risk. The total number of pedestrians killed…
The FDA has announced today that Novo Nordisk has made the decision torecall six batches of the glucagon-injecting devices after it has been reported that needles in the GlucaGen HypoKit have detached from the syringes. A detachment of the needle was reported to Novo Nordisk by a customer in Portugal and one from the…