As of this writing, six people are known dead and many others remain missing after the Costa Concordia cruise ship ran aground near a small island off Italy. The ship, owned by a Carnival Crusie Lines subsidiary, crashed because of captain’s error. He is now being charged with manslaughter and abandoning the ship while it…
A splenectomy at a very young age to resolve a digestive tract disorder left a Miramar, Florida (FL), girl defenseless against most bacterial and viral infections because the spleen continually filters infectious agents from a person’s blood. While standard and extremely safe vaccines existed to provide the protection her body lacked, a medication mistake at…
Got a runny nose? Think twice before pulling a tissue out of that new tissue box holder just bought from Bed Bath and Beyond. Why? Because some metal tissue holders contaminated with low levels of radioactive material may have been distributed to Bed, Bath & Beyond stores in more than 20 states. As a Virginia…
A 17-year-old girl in Davidson County, North Carolina (NC), died from injuries suffered after she was thrown from an ATV near her home in Kernersville. According to MY Fox 8 online, the teen was a passenger on the all-terrain vehicle when the fatal accident occurred. The ATV appears to have hit an embankment and rolled, which…
A Chesapeake, Virginia (VA), man has died after being struck in the back by a truck on Military Hghway, the Virginian-Pilot reports. The man was crossing the street of the 2200 block of Military Hwy. around 6:00 pm. He was heading eastbound in an unlit area when he was struck on the left side of his back by the passenger’s…