An Alabama woman who mistakenly received a powerful and potentially dangerous steroid instead of the painkiller she was prescribed has won a $2 million judgment against Rite Aid, the pharmacy chain that employed the pharmacist who made the dispensing error. According to the Montgomery (AL) Advertiser, the woman developed Cushing’s syndrome after taking high doses…
During the latest blast of snow and ice covering North Carolina (NC), a man out walking along U.S. Highway 70 in Wayne County near Goldsboro was struck and killed by a NCDOT snowplow. In what can be described as almost a freak accident, Mark Walston, 21, was run over by a truck driven by an…
A motorcycle rider suffered fatal injuries when he collided with a pickup truck in Kernersville, North Carolina (NC), on the afternoon of December 18, 2017. The deadly wreck happened in 500 block of Hopkins Road, a little north of the turnoffs to regents road and Timberwood Trail. Local police responded to the scene…
Two weeks ago, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued an alert titled “Pottery Barn Kids Recalls to Repair Drop-Side Cribs Due to Entrapment, Suffocation and Fall Hazards.” It marked at least the third time in the past year that the agency worked with a manufacturer to get potentially dangerous drop-side cribs fixed or out…
A three-vehicle wreck on a bridge over the Intercoastal Waterway south of Wilmington, North Carolina (NC), left a dump truck driver dead and a commercial van driver hospital. It remains unclear if the passenger van driver who appears to have caused the fatal chain-reaction crash on G.V. Barbee Bridge will face charges. Oak…