One man is dead after a pedestrian car accident in Durham, North Carolina (NC) early this morning. Eric Franklin Simpson was crossing U.S. 15-501 from Mount Moriah Road in Durham, North Carolina (NC) on foot when he was struck by Chris Worley’s Toyota Camry. Tragically, Eric Franklin Simpson died at the scene of the car…
“Between a sleepless night at his second job, conversation on his cell-phone headset, and fiddling with the iPod at his side, Frederick R. Poust III appeared to save little concentration for the job he was supposed to be doing on Feb. 17: driving a school bus loaded with 45 children to Perkiomen Valley Middle School…
AstraZeneca last week announced that it would pay a total of $520 million to settle federal and whistleblower charges that it had improperly marketed its medication Seroquel. The size of these combined settlements, first reported in the New York Times, may seem large. Compared with the $1.4 billion Eli Lilly agreed to pay in fines…
In a few months the weather will turn warm again and North Carolina (NC) residents and tourists will flock to the rivers and lakes such as the Blackwater and Lake Gaston to swim and boat. While I know they will enjoy themselves, I just recently learned that people having fun on fresh water face risks…
A driver crossed the center lane of Highway 19 in Swain County, North Carolina (NC) and wound up slamming head-on into a bus. According to ABC News 13, there were 35 students on the bus at the time of the crash. All of the students were taken to Swain County Hospital to be evaluated and…