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• Fort Worth Bans the Chaining of Dogs

  Susy Owen | February 20, 2008 2:58 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  In 2007, Texas House Bill 1411 was passed making it a misdemeanor to chain a dog overnight, in extreme weather, or for more than three consecutive hours. That is a start. Now, the City Council of Fort Worth has improved on that law and has banned chaining dogs in front and back yards, period. The cost to anyone violating this law is a $500 fine for the first offense. If that does not get the...

• Sexual Misconduct by Driver on School Bus

  Susy Owen | February 06, 2008 4:08 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  When parents put their children on a school bus, the worst thing they probably fear is a school bully harassing their child or, at worst, a traffic accident. However, on this particular Durham, Connecticut bus the unthinkable happened to some of the children onboard. Anthony Mathre, school bus driver for the Durham/Middlefield school district, has been charged with one count of sexual assault in...

• Amtrak Train Collided with Woman's Body.

  Susy Owen | September 07, 2007 9:13 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  Police in North Carolina are looking into what could be a wrongful death. At approximately five a.m. on Friday, a train collided with the body of a woman. Initally, it was believed that the woman's death was caused by the train. Now, authorities are not so certain. The engineer of the train has been interviewed. He did see a woman on the tracks, but it was too late to stop by the time he saw...

• Nursing Home Sexual Abuse

  Susy Owen | July 14, 2007 4:43 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  In a Utah case Jacob Bolith was booked on sexual abuse charges. He was accused of sexually assaulting an 85-year-old woman at a Salt Lake nursing home. The police say more and more people are now coming forward with similar charges."Detective Jared Wihongi says, "Some of the calls have involved people with elderly parents that for some reason or another didn't take seriously the complaints the...

• Avandia Research - Doctor is Threatened

  Susy Owen | June 06, 2007 12:49 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  Avandia is a diabetes medicine and is GlaxoSmithKline's second-bestselling drug. We know that worldwide more than 6 million people have taken Avandia or Avandamet, since 1999. Additionally, there was $2.2 billion in U.S. Avandia sales reported by Glaxo and that is just for the year 2006.After conducting 42 clinical trials, The New England Journal of Medicine published doctor Steven Nissen's...

• Defective Products Not Good for ED

  Susy Owen | May 16, 2007 4:31 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  Sometimes it is what you don't know that can hurt you. The Federal Drug Administration is warning consumers to be aware of the dangers associated with the use of True Man or Energy Max products. These products are promoted as a dietary supplement and as sexual enhancement products. Apparently, there are ingredients in these products that are simply not listed and therefore unknown to...

• The Source of Tainted Pet Food

  Susy Owen | April 27, 2007 8:50 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  As the pet food recall widens yet again, the contamination has reached hogs as it makes its way into the human food chain. "This is something quite new," said Grant Maxie, a clinical pathologist and director of the Animal Health Laboratory at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. "We haven't seen this before, and we may never see it again." Let hope not. The problem is heart breaking. So...

• Six Injured in Long Beach Multi-vehicle Collision

  Susy Owen | July 02, 2009 9:45 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  Six people were injured, one of them critically, in a five-car collision on the eastbound 91 Freeway in Long Beach early this morning, authorities said. Firefighters responded to the report of an...

• 2009 Mazda6 Recalled; Door May Open While Driving

  Susy Owen | February 16, 2009 10:20 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has announced Mazda's recall of 29,000 of its 2009 Mazda6 vehicles. The defect in the outer door handles causes them to stick in the open...

• Colorado's Motorcycle Fatalities Double

  Susy Owen | April 18, 2008 3:21 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  The number of motorcycle fatalities have doubled in Colorado. And there doesn’t seem to be any end in sight. So far, in 2008 as many as 10 riders have died. The majority of those riders were not...