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May 28, 2010

Two Ice Climbers Die in Yellowstone National Park

The Chicago Tribune reported today that two employees of the Cook County Medical examiner's office have been fired in connection with the recent discovery of hundreds of unidentified bodies left in a crowded cooler. This disturbing discovery last month led...

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May 25, 2010

GE Coffee Makers Recalled Due to Fire Hazard

It was just recently announced that “nearly 1 million General Electric coffee makers sold at Walmart are being recalled after dozens of reports of overheating, smoking, burning and fires. (AP Washington, 5/20). The Consumer Product Safety Commission stated Walmart has...

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May 2, 2010

CPSC Announces 2 Big Crib Recalls

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is “recalling thousands of Simplicity and Graco cribs, warning that babies could suffocate or strangle in them.” (Washington AP, 4/29). The agency says the Simplicity recall has been implicated by at least one death, and...

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May 2, 2010

Navy Subs To Ban Smoking

NBC 5 NEWS A man with a hip implant who made national news for climbing the stairs of the Willis Tower is facing another health crisis — a defective artificial hip. Mark Stephan wasn’t even expected to walk again after...

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April 26, 2010

Motorcyclist Deaths Drop, Sagging Economy may be the Source

UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Fifteen men filed a lawsuit Wednesday charging the Boy Scouts allowed a Chicago teacher to serve as a leader while he was molesting children. The plaintiffs say they were in Thomas Hacker’s troop in Oak Lawn, Ill.,...

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April 18, 2010

Witnesses Say Lights and Gates Were Not Working in Fatal Train Crash

A Georgia woman currently in graduate school is in critical condition fighting a rare flesh-eating infection that she contracted after cutting her leg in a zip-line accident. The accident happened when the zip-line snapped, plunging the woman into the rocky...

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April 11, 2010

Feds Cited Massey Mine Twice on Day of Explosion

As a personal injury lawyer in Chicago, I am both saddened and disappointed in the West Virginia Mine explosion that caused 25 needless deaths. Quickly after the explosion, news surfaced that the Massey Energy coal mine had a less than...

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April 11, 2010

Scientist: FDA Suppressed Imaging Safety Concerns

Defective Takata airbags, which caused one of the biggest automotive recalls in history, were linked to 10 deaths and more than 100 injuries. Exploding on impact, the defective airbags sent metal shrapnel flying throughout the car and at its occupants....

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