October 25, 2012 The use of Taser guns by law enforcement when apprehending suspects is a controversial issue in North Carolina right now with some experts saying the non-lethal weapons are perfectly safe, while others believe they present a dangerous risk of injury, according to the Winston-Salem Journal Taser guns are used on non-compliant suspects […]
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October 11, 2012 The recent outbreak of fungal Meningitis that swept across the United States may not be the first contamination issue for the Massachusetts manufacturer of the tainted shots. Eyewitness 11 News says the company faced a lawsuit in 2004 over the death of an 83-year-old man from Meningitis he contracted through a contaminated injection.
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September 27, 2012 The family of a North Carolina girl, who was injured at birth and was later awarded a medical malpractice settlement, will challenge a law that allows the state to takes as much as one-third of a settlement as reimbursement. The News Tribune says the decision reached in the case is likely to be significant,
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September 13, 2012 A Faison, North Carolina, farm recently announced through the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) a recall on cantaloupes and honeydew melons that were grown and packaged at the facility after regulators found them to be contaminated with bacteria that could be potentially hazardous to humans if consumed. According to a press release from
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July 5, 2012 In the wake of GlaxoSmithKline being forced to pay roughly $3 billion after the company failed to inform the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of risks that certain medications they produce could pose to patients, the company is now coming forward with new information that another medication could put patients at risk
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June 28, 2012 According to WRAL News, the father of a Smithfield, North Carolina, teen hospitalized at WakeMed is fighting to keep guardianship over his son. The young man was a 17-year-old high school senior when he was involved in a car accident in March 2011 that left him seriously injured. Doctors determined that he had suffered
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Speed-related motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of teen fatalities in the United States today, especially in North Carolina.
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Estimates from the North Carolina Department of Transportation show that more than 400 hit-and-run accidents occur in the state each year. One such accident claimed the life of a Raleigh, North Carolina, worker when he was struck at a filling station earlier this week.
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From the 1920’s all the way through the 1970’s, young women and men who were thought to be unfit to have children were sterilized by the state of North Carolina’s Eugenics Board. This past Tuesday, the victims of this atrocity moved one step closer to being compensated after the House Judiciary Committee approved a bill that would grant each of the 7,600 declared victims a $50,000 settlement.
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A 26-year-old worker at a Clinton, North Carolina, meat packing plant died in a tragic work related accident this past weekend.
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