Stroller Recall

Fall, Laceration Hazards Lead to Stroller Recall When parents buy new equipment for their baby or small child, they buy it with the belief that the product has been checked out thoroughly and is safe for their child to use. However, once in a while, children’s products slip through the cracks and actually create…

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Tesla Recall

Defective Accessory Leads to Latest Tesla Recall The number of recalls by car companies has reached monstrous proportions in recent years. In fact, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) has calculated that the total number of vehicles that were subject to a recall in the last year has already topped 50 million. And…

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San Antonio Sinkhole

San Antonio Sinkhole Claims Life of Sheriff’s Deputy In San Antonio, a massive sinkhole opened up late Sunday and claimed the life of a 69-year-old part-time Bexar County Sheriff’s deputy named Dora Linda Nishihara. According to reports, Deputy Nishihara was driving down a San Antonio road Sunday night when the San Antonio sinkhole opened…

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Chicken Recall

Major Producer in 2 Milion Pound Chicken Recall Over the weekend, National Steak and Poultry announced that it had issued a chicken recall for more than 2 million pounds of ready-to-eat products because they may have been undercooked. According to the recall announcement by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), though there have been…

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Texas False Claims Act Verdict

$93 million Texas False Claim Act Verdict for Mortgage Violations After a five-week-long trial, last week, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas announced that a federal jury in that court had issued a Texas False Claims Act verdict finding that a couple of related mortgage companies, which used to called Allied Home Mortgage…

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One Dead, One Injured in Texas Truck Crash

According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, one person was killed and another was seriously injured in a Texas truck crash involving an 18-wheeler and an aluminum tanker on US Highway 290 just east of FM 2104 in Paige, Texas yesterday morning. The deceased was later identified as 42-year-old Pascual Rueda-Orozco of Houston, who…

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Baby Medicine Recall

Use of Drug Leads to Baby Medicine Recall Last month, as you may recall, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an advisory regarding the use of several homeopathic teething products and some were pulled from the market. According to the FDA advisory, the agency recommended that parents and caregivers refrain from administering certain…

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Listeria Contamination Leads to Hummus Recall

The largest manufacturer in the United States, Sabra Dipping Co., has issued a massive hummus recall. The recall affects most of its hummus products that were produced before Nov. 8 because the hummus may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, which cause listeriosis and lead to serious illness or death for some people. The Listeria…

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One Fatality in a Texas Motorcycle Crash

The deaths and serious injuries on Texas roads continue to mount. According to Austin-Travis County EMS, a man riding a motorcycle was pronounced dead at the scene of a terrible Texas motorcycle crash in Pflugerville at about 6 a.m. Monday morning. How Did the Accident Occur? The man riding the bike, who was thought…

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Drone Recall

Flight Defect Prompts GoPro to Order Drone Recall In what many are calling an unusual move, last week, tech company GoPro pulled all of its newly released Karma drones from the market. At the same time, they asked all consumers who had purchased the drone to return them to the company for a full refund. What…

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