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• Salmonella Outbreak: FDA says avoid foods with peanut butter

  Kristina Labanauskas | January 19, 2009 3:45 PM | 1 CommentCook County, IL

  The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is urging the public to avoid eating foods that contain peanut butter until more is learned about the recent deadly salmonella outbreak. According to the FDA,...

• CDC releases report on Great Lakes pollution, health risk connection

  Kristina Labanauskas | January 14, 2009 4:40 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a report Tuesday that there isn’t enough evidence to connect industrial dumping contamination throughout the Great Lakes to specific...

• Batavia Head-on Crash Results in Death, Injuries

  Kristina Labanauskas | October 02, 2008 3:23 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  About 5:30 a.m. on Thursday morning, a tragic head-on collision took place west of Batavia in unincorporated Kane County. According to police, a Ford Econoline van was northbound on Fabyan...

• RTA Finds CTA Rail Safety Needs Improvement

  Kristina Labanauskas | July 04, 2008 6:00 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  A recent review of the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) revealed that the CTA is safe enough to ride but is in vital need of upgrades. The Regional Transportation Authority (RTA), which is...

• Chicago train crash injures dozens

  Barry Doyle | November 30, 2007 3:41 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  An Amtrak train coming into Chicago from Grand Rapids, Michigan ran into the back of a stopped freight train this afternoon. The crash happened on Chicago's south side. The engine from the Amtrak train hit the rear end of a Norfolk Southern freight train which was hauling shipping containers. Spokesmen from Norfolk Southern claim that the freight train had been cleared to be on that track. ...

• 491 Cases of Salmonella Illness from Taste of Chicago

  Jenny Albano | July 16, 2007 10:29 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  The number of people reported being ill has increased to 491 after they ate at the Pars Cove Persian Cuisine booth at the Taste of Chicago festival. The source of the salmonella outbreak has been linked to a hummus dish called hummus shirazi which includes fresh herbs, tomato and cucumber salad on top of hummus. The numbers of salmonellosis have been increasing over the last week.As a...

• Kentucky nursing home cited in resident death

  Barry Doyle | May 24, 2007 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  A Kentucky nursing home was recently cited by the state for care deficiencies which has resulted in harm to residents of the facility.In one instance, the facility was cited with failing to change the feeding tube of a resident, resulting in dehydration and death.Dehydration is a hidden killer in nursing homes. Elderly residents have a diminished sense of thirst, so they need to be encouraged...

• Contractor cited after employee falls through floor

  Barry Doyle | May 20, 2007 4:21 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  A contractor was hit with over $69,000 in fines by OSHA after an employee was injured when he plummeted three floors when the floor of the building he was working in collapased. The employee was involved in the demolition of a building at the time of the accident.Violations of OSHA regulations such as this put employees lives at unnecessary risk of harm.When done safely, demolition of buildings...

• CTA notice law denies legitimate claims

  Barry Doyle | May 19, 2007 1:55 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  NBC News had a recent feature on a little-known statute which requires persons injured in accidents with the CTA to provide the CTA with a special statutory notice. If the notice is not completed or if information is missing or wrong, then the lawsuit gets dismissed. It does not matter that the CTA has the correct information - the lawsuit still gets dismissed.The woman featured in the NBC...

• Girl mauled by pit bull

  Barry Doyle | May 18, 2007 9:15 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  A visit to a friend's home tragic for a 7-year old Ohio girl last week. While she was playing in the backyard with her friend, a 7-month old pit bull owned her friend's uncle mauled the girl and did not stop attacking the girl until the friend's mother drove the animal away.The victim lost an ear and suffered facial fractures which required the insertion of a steel plate in her cheek. The bite...