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…
On Saturday a Quincy man was arrested and is facing much more than one charge for acrash that involved more than five vehicles, one being a john boat parked and on its trailer. Multiple departments were dispatched to Fifth and Chestnut including the Quincy Police Department, Quincy Fire Department, Adam’s County Sheriff’s office, and…
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…
Your safety is put at risk daily by those obsessed with catching the next digital monster. This particular driver hit a tree instead of another driver and luckily suffered minor injuries. While this incident occurred in AuburnPokemon Go isn’t isolated to just that area; people across the world are on the search for the…
While many look forward to seeing the new version of a phone that is put out bySamsung, we now anticipate how they will extinguish their current battery problem. The battery they are now using is a Lithium-ion battery. The FAA has been worried about them causing a fire for years. With the abundant amount…
Anursing home in Columbia, PA. in under scrutiny after ABC27 News launches an investigation. The investigation of Susquehanna Valley’s nursing home was sparked from those previously employed by the facility having come forward with complaints of the conditions there. They also found that during one year, eight investigations were conducted, and the nursing home…
Anothercar crash on Meadows Ave. in East Peoria took a woman’s life on Wednesday. The coroner of Peoria announced Wednesday evening at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center that Norene McMahon, 48 of Washington, was deceased. The second driver has been hospitalized as a result, and their condition is not known at this time. An…
Well-known heartburndrugs Prilosec and Nexium have been linked to artery damage, kidney failure, and dementia through recent studies. Scientists have discovered shocking information. Cells were used that lined the walls of the arteries and compared by exposing them to an H2 blocker found in Zantac and to Nexium. Cells exposed to Nexium showed a…