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• South Side Crash leads to death, injury for pedestrians

  Kristina Labanauskas | April 06, 2009 3:16 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  A Northwestern Memorial Hospital manager was killed and a 7-year-old boy was severely injured on Saturday morning at Ashland Avenue and 95th Street after two vehicles collided near the...

• Running engines in garage poses carbon monoxide risk to people in the house

  Barry Doyle | June 11, 2009 11:30 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  Two recent news stories show that it is not safe to leave gas powered equipment running in the garage. This allows carbon monoxide into the house, putting residents of the house at risk for death or...

• Metra Train Kills Pedestrian

  Kristina Labanauskas | September 26, 2008 5:10 PM | 2 CommentsCook County, IL

  A Union Pacific Northwest Line train inbound to Chicago struck and killed a pedestrian near the Arlington Heights Station, located at Northwest Highway and Evergreen Avenue. The tragic accident...

• Mundelein Car Crash

  Kristina Labanauskas | November 20, 2008 6:02 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  A car collided with a gravel truck in Mundelein on Wednesday morning, resulting in serious injuries to the female driver. The accident took place at Route 83 and Hawley Street. The woman was...

• 2 Motorcyclists Killed in I-80 Accident

  Kristina Labanauskas | October 09, 2008 1:18 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  Back to back accidents resulted in2 motorcyclist deaths on I-80 early this morning. The accidents took place just west of Larkin Avenue in Joliet. About 2:25 a.m., a motorcycle with 2 riders...

• CTA Green Line derailment

  Barry Doyle | May 28, 2008 7:55 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  Earlier today, a CTA Green Line train derailed, resulting in several being hospitalized. The early reports are that the derailment of the train occurred at a switch track. The operator went through...

• Mother Sues After Four-Month Old Died From Cough Medicine

  Jenny Albano | November 15, 2007 4:49 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  Dimitria Alvarez's four-month old son died from taking over-the-counter cough and cold medicines on Oct. 8, 2001, and she has since sued the two sued two distributors of the drugs, claiming they should have known the dangers of the main ingredient and cautioned consumers.The lawsuit filed Wednesday is one of the first since Federal Drug Administration hearings last month where health experts...

• Judge rules medication errors caused by workload

  Barry Doyle | June 02, 2007 9:52 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  At a recent administrative law hearing for unemployment benefits, a judge ruled that a nurse's discharge was not for cause -- even though she made many errors in the care of patients under her charge -- because the errors were the result of the multiple responsibilities that had been placed on the nurse. Therefore, the judge awrded unemployment benefits that the hospital had been contesting.The...

• CNA sentenced in rape of nursing home resident

  Barry Doyle | May 30, 2007 5:14 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  A DuPage County judge today sentenced a former nursing home CNA to 25 years in prison. The sentence follows a guilty plea to sexual assault charges.The victim of the assault was a severely disabled woman who resided in the nursing home. The sexual assult was not discovered until after it was discovered that the woman was pregnant. The CNA was identified as the perpetrator through DNA...

• Fatal nail-gun accident

  Barry Doyle | April 27, 2007 8:45 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  An Idaho construction worker was found dead on a residential construction project. At the time of his death, he was using a nail gun to frame houses.The nail gun apparently accidentally discharged and he was killed by a penetrating injury to his brain stem.On a construction site, not only do the work practices have to be safe, but the equipment must be safe as well. Nail guns are a special...