Parents love bounce houses and children love bouncing in them.  However, according to Attorney General Jerry Brown of California, it may also be toxic.
A lawsuit was filed on Wednesday by Mr. Brown’s office and claims that some of the inflatable bounce houses that help entertain young children at parties have unsafe levels of lead, sometimes dozens of times the federal limit.
“I was surprised,” said Mr. Brown, who is running for governor in a state with 2.7 million children under age 5. “But as we test more and more of these …

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health warned the people of L.A. County Tuesday of two nationwide food recalls linked to salmonella. The tainted products are for certain eggs shipped from Wright County Egg company of Galt, Iowa and frozen mamey pulp fruit from COCO S.A. of Guatemala, according to a statement by the department
“Public Health is coordinating with state and federal agencies on this issue and has reached out to food distributors and retailers throughout the county to ensure that these product are removed from vendors’ shelves.” said …

Dr. Frank Ryan, 50, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon died when his Jeep Wrangler veered off Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu on Tuesday.   It appears he posted to Twitter minutes before the crash and may have been texting at the time of the accident, according to his ex-girlfriend.
The surgeon posted a picture of his dog, a border collie, at the beach on Twitter at 4:10 p.m. and 2o minutes later the accident occurred.  Ryan was driving south on PCH north of Deer Creek Road, when his car swerved and …

A lawsuit was filed Tuesday against Farmers Group Inc.  The lawsuit accuses Farmers of refusing to pay claims to policyholders whose homes were damaged by last summer’s massive Station Fire near Los Angeles.  The suit claims breach of contract and unfair business practices.  It seeks unspecified damages for more than 1,000 homeowners who reported smoke, ash and other damages from the blaze that killed two firefighters, destroyed 89 homes and scorched 250 square miles of Angeles National Forest.
Brian Kabateck, an attorney for the plaintiffs, stated that Farmers denied claims to …

An off-road racing accident in California’s Mojave Desert has left eight people dead and 12 injured.  The accident may have occurred because fans wanted to get too close to the speeding trucks.
Hundreds of stunned off-road racing fans looked on horrified Saturday night at the carnage at the California 200 in the Mojave Desert, 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles, after driver Brett M. Sloppy, 28, lost control of his truck that then catapulted into the crowd at high speed.
Sloppy was driving a modified Ford Ranger along the 50-mile track at …

According to the California Highway Patrol the Golden Gate Bridge reopened at 9:40 a.m. Tuesday after a collision involving at least four vehicles shut down all lanes.  The collision caused quite a traffic back up into San Francisco.
CHP Sgt. Diana McDermott stated the accident occurred shortly after 9 a.m. when a big rig truck headed north rear-ended a Kia about 300 feet past the toll plaza, causing the smaller vehicle to cross over into southbound traffic.  Immediately following this a red Porsche headed south broadsided the Kia.  A fourth vehicle …

The body of a 49-year-old Maryland man was recovered from the waters of the Elk River.  His body was found two days after he was thrown from his boat after a collision with a buoy.
Deforrest W. Timlin of Rising Sun, Md., was traveling from Chesapeake Inn to Button Wood Beach on Saturday when he was thrown from his 28 foot power boat.  Timlin’s boat struck a buoy which caused him to be thrown from the boat. Eric Pryor of North East, Md., was a passenger of the boat and was …

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced on August 3, 2010, the recall of bunk beds over an entrapment hazard the product poses.  Pottery Barn Kids is a division of Williams-Sonoma, Inc. and voluntarily recalled the bunk beds with the CPSC.
PB Kids have recalled about 405 bunk beds after discovering that the beds pose an entrapment hazard.  According to the CPSC the end structure of the bunk bed violates the Safety Standard for Entrapment Hazards in Bunk Beds, 16 C.F.R. Part 1513.  Entrapment can occur when young children get …

Investigators have identified a man killed in a crash with a FrontRunner.   The accident occurred when he tried to beat an oncoming commuter train by driving around barrier arms and onto a railroad crossing .
Charles Dubose, 52, of West Haven, was killed when the train traveling 79 mph crashed into his pickup at 7:57 p.m. Monday, the Utah Highway Patrol said.
Reports state that no major injuries were reported to either the operator or riders on the Utah Transit Authority’s FrontRunner train . However, one passenger sustained some minor bumps …

A boating accident near Anclote River Park off U.S. 19 near the Pinellas-Pasco county line has left one person dead and four others suffering injuries.
According to the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office two boats collided near the park’s main docks about 2:30 p.m.  Both boats were entering the channel in a light rain near marker No. 18 where the accident occurred.
Eddie Feidt, a lifeguard who witnessed the collision, stated that one boat accelerated and cut off the other one.
“That set off a panic,” Feidt said. The driver of the slower boat tried …