After twenty years of battling with courts in Oklahoma, Thomas Webb III was awarded for $175,000 for over a decade of his life lost. Webb was convicted in 1983 of a rape and robbery that occurred the year before. The victim, then a student at the University of Oklahoma, mistakenly identified him as the perpetrator.
NY Times Video Report on Nader & Airbags A good video report, published by the New York Times, explores the history of Ralph Nader’s work on airbags and auto safety up to 2014. Everyone should watch it.1 Additional Airbag History This article provides some additional documentation and stories to provide a richer, fairer, and more
I know we’re all used to a certain level of lies coming out of Washington, but from restaurants? There’s a basic trust with purveyors of noms that what we order from the menu will be the food that shows up on our plates. Not necessarily so, according to an article from last week’s Washington Post investigating potential food fraud.
Babysitter Not Satisfied With Hourly Wage Robs Bank
Fifteen former tenants who were survivors of a fire that occurred in a West Oakland halfway house last month filed a lawsuit against the landlord of the home, alleging that their living conditions were illegal, not up to code and led to the fire. Landlord says Urojas to blame.
Baby and child carriers are popular among parents, so it’s unfortunate that a popular brand is recalling thousands of child carriers. Recently, Osprey Child Safety Products and Osprey Packs of Cortez, Colo. decided to recall nearly 88,000 of their Poco child carriers currently being sold in the U.S. and Canada. What happened to prompt the recall? Well, apparently the carriers have been deemed unsafe because “a child seated in the carrier can slip through the leg openings, posing a fall hazard to children.”
The U.S. House of Representatives introduced a bill Thursday which would loosen Obama-era regulations on e-cigarettes. The proposal was brought about by Rep. Duncan Hunter (R) of California, a vocal and longtime supporter of the use of e-cigarettes, colloquially known as “vapes.” Under Barack Obama, the Food and Drug Administration began classifying e-cigarettes as tobacco
A tragedy occurred at the federally funded Jessie Trice Community Health Center when baby Earl Reese-Thornton was born with a severe brain injury after Dr. Atogho failed to offer and perform a C-section and “continued the administration of the contraindicated delivery drug Pitocin.” Fortunately, the law firm, Mallard & Sharp, P.A., that represented the heartbroken parents, won a “$33.8 million verdict on behalf of a brain damaged baby,” and the Court found that “Dr. Atogho’s failure to offer and perform a C-section was gross negligence and caused the brain injury that resulted in baby Earl Reese-Thornton requiring 24-hour care for the remainder of his life.”
Two Metro Detroit doctors have been indicted by a federal grand jury for performing female genital mutilation on underage girls. On Wednesday, the charges were brought up against both physicians, Jumana Nagarwala and Fakhruddin Attar, as well as Attar’s wife, Farida. The case against the group alleges that Nagarwala made use of Dr. Attar’s medical
Recall Alert! The frozen chicken in your freezer might contain plastic. That’s why Foster Farms has issued a massive recall of nearly “131,880 pounds of frozen, ready-to-eat breaded chicken patty products” because they might “be contaminated with foreign materials, specifically plastic,” according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.