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• Defective Products Tested for Lead by County

  David Rowell | October 24, 2007 4:09 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  Most consumers are aware of the tidal wave of toys and other defective products containing excessive levels of lead that have been offered to American consumers lately. As noted in a recent reportRecently recalled toys from China include 675,000 Mattel Barbie accessories, 49,000 Disney Deluxe Winnie-the-Pooh play sets and about a million Fisher-Price character toys such as Elmo and Dora the...

• Pleasonton Accident Kills One, Injures Two

  David Rowell | October 21, 2007 4:04 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  A two-car motor vehicle collision in Pleasonton on Saturday resulted in the death of a 19 year-old girl, and the serious injury of two others. The auto accident occurred around 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, on Foothill Road in Pleasonton. The 19 year-old driver of a Ford Mustang, southbound on Foothill Road, collided head-on with a Mercedes SUV traveling northbound. Laurel Williams, a passenger in the...

• Hannah Montana Boots Recalled for "Trip and Fall" Risk

  David Rowell | October 21, 2007 7:19 AM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  Payless ShoeSource, Inc. has announced the recall of about 90,000 girls' boots, made in China, because of a risk of injury due to "slip and fall" accidents. The jeweled, "Hannah Montana" engraved boots have guitar-shapped zipper pulls, which can get caught on each other as the child walks, causing the child to trip. Payless has received reports of five instances of children tripping due to this...

• Injured Students Sue Isuzu Over Defective Design

  David Rowell | October 20, 2007 7:07 AM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  Tyhler Carron and Nikko Landeros are students at Berthoud High School. The two boys, both 18, were on their school's wrestling team. On January 15 thery were on their way home in Carron's Isuzu Trooper, Carron was driving, when their vehicle got a flat tire. Carron pulled over to change the flat, and he and Landeros got out. They went to the back of the car and opened the rear doors to get the...

• Student's Death Leads to Wrongful Death Lawsuit

  David Rowell | October 19, 2007 8:51 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  Jodi Woods was a student at the University of Tennessee, studying to be a teacher. In June 2006 she felt so sick that she went to the Emergency Department at Community Hospital in Martin, Tennessee. She told the staff that she had a severe headache (she described it as "the worst in her life"), and had other symptoms of bacterial meningitis, a life-threatening infection of tissue around the...

• Slip and Fall in Parking Lot Results in Award of $390,000

  David Rowell | October 18, 2007 5:31 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  Robert Yusem slipped on ice in a parking lot in a Pennsylvania industrial park in 2000, and suffered serious injuries, including fractures of his elbow, arm and ankle. It's taken seven years, but a jury recently awarded Yusems and his wife $390,000 in damages based on a claim of premises liabilty. In his "slip and fall" lawsuit, Yusems argued that the defendant parking-lot owner carelessly...

• Palm Desert Man Killed in Motorcycle Accident

  David Rowell | October 08, 2007 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  Robert Kolbeck, 65, of Palm Desert, California, was killed in a single-vehicle motorcycle accident on September 28, Kolbeck and his wife Carol, were morthbound on State Rout 247 near Victorville when Kolbeck apparently lost control of his vehicle. The motorcycle, a 2007 Harley Davidson Ultra, ran off the road and overturned. Kolbeck suffered major injuries and was airlifted to Palm Desert...

• More Tainted Beef Recalled

  David Rowell | October 07, 2007 1:00 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  About ten days ago consumers saw Topps Meat Company of New Jersey recall almost 22 million poinds of frozen ground beef patties, the second-larges ground beef recall in U.S. history, followed by Topps closure late last week. That recall was followed by a small recall by Impero Food & Meats, Inc., of Baltimore, Maryland. What was troubling about the Impero meat recall was that the same organism...

• Huge Recall by CPSC for Lead Danger

  David Rowell | October 07, 2007 7:01 AM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  The Consumer Products Safety Commission on Thursday may have hit a new high-water mark for defective and dangerous product recalls based on violation of the lead standard. On October 4 alone, the CPSC announced: the recall of about 150,000 bookmarks and journals that contain lead; the recall of almost 200,000 toy key chains containing high levels of lead; the recall of about 15,000 toy...

• Fresno Man Dies in Auto Accident

  David Rowell | October 06, 2007 1:00 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  Jesus Reyes of Fresno died Wednesday afternoon in a two-car automobile accident in Fresno County. Reyes was eastbound on Adams Avenue and failed to stop at the intersection with Cornelia Avenue. A Nissan pickup truck, southbound on Cornelia, struck Reyes' vehicle in the intersection. Reyes was ejected from his Ford Explorer and struck his head on a metal grapevine post. Reyes was declared dead...