On Saturday afternoon in Cary, North Carolina a nine-year-old boy was hit and killed by a vehicle while skateboarding, according to police. The nine-year-old, Ravindra Kalipershad was leaving a driveway on his skateboard in the 100th block of Council Gap Court when he unavoidably rolled in front of a Toyota Highlander, Cary police Lt. Randall…
When I first heard on Wednesday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ordered makers of generic injectable Phenergan to strengthen warnings about the medication’s potential to cause gangrene when improperly administered, I was pleased. Then I thought, “That was too long in coming.” The medication in products like Phenergan — which Wyeth has stopped…
A carrier with the Fayetteville Observer newspaper was impaled on a wrought-iron fence for more than two hours last Monday. According to Fayetteville Police the victim was a man named Kevin Williams, 51. He was treated at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center and was released to recover at home. The newspaper carrier mistakenly threw a…
The EPA announced its “first-ever public health emergency” claiming that the federal government will give $130 million to help people who were affected by asbestos while in the mines in Montana. This same situation that the EPA is trying to help improve has been responsible for about 200 deaths. The money is targeting towns like…
The jobs soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, Coast Guardsmen and National Guardsmen do require them to take great personal risks. These brave men and women too often get injured or killed in the line of duty. None should face risks from their superiors or civilian colleagues, however. Members of the military do not surrender their basic…