It was an outrageous case of child abduction. A little girl was taken from her elementary school in Mississippi – multiple times – apparently with the unwitting cooperation of the…
According to an analysis performed by The New York Times, complaints about so-called metal on metal hip implants registered by the Food and Drug Administration to date in 2011 surpass the number…
Despite the fact that North Carolina outlawed the deadly synthetic drug known as “bath salts” on June 1st, it is still being sold. Police in Fayetteville searched seven businesses on…
Attention deer hunters! The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission has some timely advice about safety and tree stands. “Unfortunately, we have tree stand incidents that involve injuries…
Yesterday I wrote about the “brain-eating amoeba,” Naegleria fowleri that killed three young people this summer. The amoeba causes the disease primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM)….
It sounds like the plot of a summer horror movie. The creature that crawls in swimmers’ noses and eats their brains. But it’s not fiction. So far three people have died this summer…
Parents know how important it is to stay up to date on recalls. This is particularly true in the case of infant and toddler chairs. Little arms, legs, fingers and toes can and do find any…
Photo: flickr/tomoneki A proposed law banning the persistent tethering of dogs in Forsyth County, North Carolina, appears to have the support of the commissioners following a large outpouring of…
Former Supreme Court nominee, Robert Bork, was the subject of legal blogs several years ago when he stepped up onto a dais to deliver a speech to the Yale Club of New York City and fell backward….
Exercise equipment manufacturer, Perfect Fitness, agreed to pay a $425,000 penalty to settle claims brought by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). The penalty agreement stems from…
Smoke from the Great Dismal Swamp fire should shift toward the south and southwest on Friday, degrading air quality across the northern Coastal Plain and northeastern Piedmont of North Carolina, air…
The newest entry in the seemingly never-ending litany of social media horror: prison inmates stalking their victims and organizing criminal activity through Facebook. The Federal Bureau of…
