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Last Entry: May 20, 2010 at 14:28:00

School Bus Catches Fire On Hollywood Freeway

Posted on May 20, 2010
Two students suffered minor smoke inhalation when a school bus caught fire Wednesday on a Los Angeles freeway, officials said. It was not immediately clear what caused the fire, which engulfed the bus shortly before 9 a.m. on the southbound Hollywood Freeway near Universal City, said Erik Scott, spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department...

CHP Plane Crashes Killing One

Posted on May 13, 2010
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Sheriff Hits and Kills Woman Parked on Shoulder of 405 Freeway

Posted on May 08, 2010
A woman was killed on Monday after her 2007 Toyota Scion was involved in a collision with a 1984 Toyota pickup. The pickup was then struck by a patrol unit occupied by two on-duty sheriff's deputies sending the woman's vehicle into oncoming traffic. According to CHP, it is unclear whether the woman, Lisa Hylla of North Hills, was thrown from the vehicle or exited on her own at some point...

Childrens Over-the-counter Liquid Medicines Recall Includes Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl

Posted on May 01, 2010
McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a unit of Johnson & Johnson, has voluntarily begun a recall of certain children's over-the-counter liquid medicines due to issues with the potency, purity or quality of the products, the Food and Drug Administration said Saturday...

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Qualcomm Stadium To Install Guardrails After Employee Falls To His Death

Posted on April 22, 2010
The San Diego Chargers have been ordered to put guardrails on a dozen open-air boxes at Qualcomm Stadium to prevent a repeat of last year's accident in which an employee tumbled to his death. The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health issued the order after investigating the death of Walter Daniels, 66, a game-day employee of the team...

Toyota Recalls 600,000 Sienna Minivans

Posted on April 17, 2010
Toyota Motor Sales announced that it will launch a voluntary Safety Recall involving approximately 600,000 first- and second-generation Sienna 2WD minivans sold in the United States to address potential corrosion in the spare tire carrier cable. This condition may appear on certain 1998 through 2010 model year Siennas that have been operated in cold climate areas with high road salt use...

Government Report Shows Weakness In FDA Food Inspections

Posted on April 08, 2010
A recent government report exposes a significant weakness in the FDA food inspection program. More than half of food manufacturing facilities have gone without an inspection for five years and the FDA inspects less than a quarter of food facilities every year...

Jury Awards Record Damages to 94-Year Old Woman in Sexual Assault Elder Abuse Case

Posted on March 04, 2010
VALENCIA, Calif., March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Following a five-week trial, a jury in the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Los Angeles, awarded 94-year old Sophie Schwartz $12.5 million ($6 million in general damages and $6.5 million in punitive damages) on March 1, 2010 against Jose Vazquez and Oakdale Heights Management Corporation for the 2007 sexual assault committed while Schwartz resided at Oakdale Heights of Santa Clarita in Santa Clarita, California...

Car Accident Claims One Victim, Injures Teenager

Posted on February 24, 2010
A 17-year-old driver and her 18-year-old passenger plunged 160 feet into a ravine off of Sand Canyon Road on Monday at around 10:20 p.m. The driver was injured but her passenger, Jaime M. Arias of Saugus, died at the scene. According to California Highway Patrol, the car crash occured near mile post marker 7...

19-year-old Cyclist Killed by Hit-and-run Driver

Posted on February 20, 2010
A manhunt was underway in San Bernardino on Saturday for a hit-and-run driver who killed a 19-year-old man traveling on his bicycle with his younger brother, who was critically injured in the collision, authorities said. Thomas Joseph Meeks of San Bernardino was bicycling east on 40th Street, just past Acre Lane, when he cut across the roadway around 7 p...

Moreno Valley Coach and Family Die in Car Accident

Posted on February 15, 2010
The victims of a freeway crash and fire Saturday were a popular high school coach, his wife and their two small children. Ryan Villalpando, an assistant football coach at Moreno Valley High, was killed with his wife, Veronica, and their two children when their car became wedged between two trucks and burst into flames...

Trader Joes Recalls Chocolate Chip Chewy Coated Granola Bars

Posted on February 11, 2010
Trader Joe's Company of Monrovia, California is voluntarily recalling Trader Joe's Chocolate Chip Chewy Coated Granola Bars, UPC 82818, Use by Dates/Lot Codes 16JUL10H2 and 17JUL10H1, manufactured by Bloomfield Bakery, a subsidiary of Ralcorp Holdings, Inc...

FDA Issues Class I Recall of Medical Needles

Posted on January 27, 2010
The Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of 2 million medical needles Tuesday because of a risk they can push bits of silicone into patients' bodies. Federal officials said Japanese manufacturer Nipro Medical Corp. has voluntarily recalled its Exel/Exelint Huber needles manufactured between January 2007 and August 2009...

Van Nuys Car Accident Involves Two Suspected Drunk Drivers

Posted on January 22, 2010
Two suspected drunk drivers were involved in a car crash injuring at least three people in Van Nuys. According to Los Angeles Police Officer James LaForce, an eastbound car in the 13800 block of Sherman Way was in the process of making a U-turn when it was struck by an eastbound pickup truck...

The High Cost of Radiation

Posted on December 15, 2009
Many say that tests like MRI's and CT perfusion scans are being overused and concern is spreading in light of recent federal investigation looking into radiation overdoses in Los Angeles, CA and Hintsville, AL. Skyrocketing costs are among one reason patients are beginning to question the necessity of tests...

Third Area Hospital Included in Radiation Overdose Investigation

Posted on December 08, 2009
A third Los Angeles area hospital is now included in an investigation led by the US Food and Drug Administration looking into radiation overdoses that patients have received from a specific type of brain scan. The expansion suggests that the issue may be nationwide...

Blue Bonnet Spread Recalled After Label Mixup

Posted on November 14, 2009
ConAgra Foods, along with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is voluntarily recalling a 1,120 cases of 15 oz. tubs of Blue Bonnet Spread. The lot was mispackaged as the lid used is for regular Blue Bonnet Spread and the tub portion describes the product as Blue Bonnet Light Spread...

Lawsuit Claims Negligence in Texas Daycare Death

Posted on November 07, 2009
Attorneys representing Dallas' Rasansky Law Firm announced the lawsuit on behalf of the mother of a two-year-old girl who choked to death on a piece of gravel at a northeast Dallas daycare center in 2008. According to the wrongful death lawsuit filed in the 44th District Court in Dallas, employees at the Woodbridge Day School located on Plano Road failed to notice when 2-year old Isabella Estep started choking on a small rock and collapsed inside the school on Oct...

I-5 Reopens After Milti-car Collision

Posted on October 28, 2009
All lanes on Interstate 5 in Burbank have been reopened after a big rig jackknifed and struck the center divider early this morning, catching fire and causing a multi-car collision. The 5:51 a.m. accident occurred on the northbound lanes near West Alameda Avenue...

Patients at Cedars-Sinai Receive Radiation Overdose; Hospital Fails to Inform All Affected

Posted on October 15, 2009
Four patients at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center who received eight times the necessary amount of radiation were not informed of the hospital's error. Of the 206 patients who received radiation overdose, at least four were called and asked only about hair loss or other side effects...

Driver Kills One After Allegedly Texting While Driving

Posted on September 29, 2009
A Costa Mesa motorist was ordered to stand trial for allegedly killing a pedestrian minutes after he was texting on his cellphone in the car. An Orange County judge on Monday rejected a defense request to reduce the charges. The man's attorney argued that there is no evidence he was texting at the time of the crash, but prosecutors say his use of the phone and other factors suggest he was acting negligently and didn't see the pedestrian...

CHP Recommends Manslaughter Charges Against Officer Involved in Deadly Collision

Posted on September 24, 2009
The California Highway Patrol recommends that prosecutors bring manslaughter charges against La Habra police officer, Nancy Garcia, who was responding to an emergency in April when she sped through a red light and collided with a car . The accident killed a husband and wife, authorities said Wednesday...

Parents of College Student Sue Over Fraternity Hazing Related Death

Posted on September 22, 2009
The parents of the Cal Poly fraternity pledge who died last year after an alleged hazing incident have filed a lawsuit against the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and nine of its members. Carson Starkey's parents, Scott and Julia Starkey of Austin, Texas, filed the lawsuit Monday in San Luis Obispo Superior Court...

Class I Recall On Pediatric Tracheal Tubes

Posted on September 11, 2009
Smiths Medical and FDA notified healthcare professionals about a nationwide voluntary recall of Portex Uncuffed Pediatric-Sized Tracheal Tubes (sizes 2.5, 3.0 and 3.5 mm). A small number of tubes were manufactured with internal diameters slightly smaller than indicated on the labeling, which may create the potential for the clinician to experience difficulty passing through or withdrawing the suction catheter...

Family of Boy Killed in Hyperbaric Chamber Files Wrongful Death

Posted on August 13, 2009
A 4-year-old boy and his grandmother were fatally burned when the hyperbaric chamber they were both in exploded. The grandmother died in the explosion. The boy, Francesco Pio Martinisi, suffered burns to 90 percent of his body and died one month after the explosion...

Peregrina Cheese Corporation Recalls All Products Manufactured In Its Plant

Posted on August 13, 2009
Peregrina Cheese Corporation of Brooklyn, New York, is recalling all products manufactured in its Brooklyn, NY plant from March 17, 2009 to the present because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems...

Fireside Coffee Recalls Tea With Potential Salmonella

Posted on July 27, 2009
Fireside Coffee Co. Swartz Creek, MI is recalling all Fireside Chai Tea that contains dry milk produced by Plainview Milk Products after June 2007. Plainview Milk Products of Plainview, MN has recalled its instant non-fat dry milk because of potential Salmonella contamination...

Hiland-Roberts Ice Cream Announces Voluntary Nationwide Recall

Posted on July 18, 2009
Hiland-Roberts Ice Cream, Norfolk NE is voluntarily recalling sorbet products manufactured for Espo's Cucina Dolce, Inc. because they contain undeclared milk. The recalled products are pint containers of Espo's Sorbetto and Nature's Promise Sorbetto. People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to milk run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they consume these products...

Clif Shot Recovery Drink Mix Recalled After Salmonella Contamination

Posted on July 08, 2009
A nationwide voluntary and precautionary recall of Hot Chocolate Recovery Drink Mix from CLIF SHOT® sold in 40-gram, single-serve packets and 12-pack boxes with a "Best By" date of 19SEP09R was announced today because the powdered drink mix contains organic non-fat dried milk made by the Plainview Milk Products Cooperative, Plainview, Minn...

SUV Collides With Big Rig Killing Toddler

Posted on July 01, 2009
A 3 1/2-year-old girl was killed Saturday when her mother lost control of her sport utility vehicle and crashed into a tractor-trailer on the 5 Freeway in Mission Hills. Mariana Ruiz, 50, of Bakersfield, driving a 1998 Ford Explorer, got on the freeway at San Fernando Mission Boulevard about 9:30 a...

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