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• Contaminated Peanut Butter(2)

  James Sabatini | March 01, 2007 11:20 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  U.S. health officials on Thursday confirmed finding salmonella in samples taken from the Georgia processing plant linked to contaminated Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, inspections of ConAgra's plant in Sylvester uncovered the same strain of salmonella found in jars of Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter responsible for 370 cases...

• Fatal Car Accident - Montville

  James Sabatini | March 01, 2007 4:09 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  A West Hartford woman died in a car accident near the Mohegan Sun Casino on Route 2a this morning, state police said. Wendy Jenkins, 28, of Lovelace Drive, died in a head-on collision with another vehicle around 1:51 a.m., state police said. She was driving the wrong way on a highway ramp. The driver and passengers of the other vehicle suffered non-threatening injuries.

• Contaminated Peanut Butter

  James Sabatini | February 26, 2007 2:42 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  The ConAgra Foods plant in Sylvester, Georgia, was inspected by company and government scientists. They were trying to find the cause of the salmonella contamination that led to a peanut butter recall. The Peter Pan brand and some of Walmart's Great Value brand were linked to a nationwide outbreak of salmonella cases, and those brands of peanut butter was recalled. The plant in Sylvester,...

• Higher C-Section Rate Due to Malpractice Fears

  Shannon Weidemann | January 24, 2007 2:58 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  The rate for Caesarean Sections in the Bay State rose from 31% in 2004 to 32% in 2005. That is about two thirds of all births. There were approximately 77,000 live births in the state in 2005. Doctors cite many reasons for the increase including older women, multiple births, and malpractice fears. The more risk factors there are with a pregnancy, increases the likelihood that a doctor will...

• Planes Still Flying with TWA 800 Problem

  James Sabatini | July 15, 2006 2:11 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  Incredibly, 10 years after the explosion on board TWA 800, the very same problem has still not been fully fixed despite the FAA's warning that the very same disaster will happen again. It is just a matter of time. The biggest opposition to the safety change - the airlines.The airlines are contending that the FAA's safety analysis is flawed and their cost/benefit analysis is not calling for the...

• Boy Drowns at City of Hartford's Pool

  James Sabatini | June 29, 2006 7:08 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  A boy drowned in a City of Hartford's public pool located in Pope Park. It appears that the boy was not discovered for some time. The Hartford police are presently investigating the incident. Accoring to the Hartford Courant:The city hires a security company to watch the pool at night. Caraballo said he did not know why the security company, which on Sunday started work for the 2006 summer...

• Three, YES 3!, Percent of Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Frivolous

  Staff Writer | May 12, 2006 12:29 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  A recent study in the New England Journal of medicine found that three percent of medical malpractice lawsuits filed have no verifiable injuries. This means that in 97% of all cases, there is a verifiable injury, and that lawsuit cannot be called frivolous. Justinian at corpreform.com has a great analogy at his site:The remaining question is whether malpractice was the cause of those injuries....

• Disclaimer

  Staff Writer | January 22, 2006 11:25 AM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

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• CT Nursing Home CEO Funds Record Label

  James Sabatini | November 20, 2007 1:31 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  In late 2005, Haven Healthcare CEO Raymond Termini decided to pursue a longtime dream: He launched a record label in Nashville to produce both little-known and established country musicians. Within in a few months, the company gets the cash to sign major artists such as Travis Tritt. Back in Connecticut, residents of his nursing home in Jewett City spent a cold December night. After months of...

• 1 Killed, 3 Injured In Tractor Trailer Crash

  James Sabatini | October 16, 2007 10:43 AM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  A 47-year-old woman from Manchester was killed in an accident Monday afternoon on Route 2 that involved a tractor trailer and three cars. Cindy S. Cornish was killed when a tractor trailer crashed into her vehicle on Route 2 west near exit 16 in Marlborough. She had been slowing down for a construction site when the truck crashed into the rear end of her car. Three other people involved in the...