It can be challenging for consumers to find good lawyers. Just like any other profession, there are good ones and bad ones. Honest ones and dishonest ones. Experienced and inexperienced. When you are working with an attorney it is important to find someone you can trust and that you like. After all, some cases go on for years and you don’t want to be stuck with an attorney who you don’t like. Many attorneys will tell you whatever you want to hear to get you in the door but once …

Dangerous drugs with serious side effects are used everyday in America. Many pharmaceutical companies put profits over people and push dangerous prescription drugs that have serious side effects on those taking medications. Recently we wrote about Actos and bladder cancer. Now another dangerous drug is being used to treat people called Pradaxa, also called dabigatran (its generic name). Pradaxa is a prescription blood-thinning medication that is used to reduce the risk of stroke and blood clots in people with cardiac arrhythmia.  It was approved by the FDA in 2010 and …

Actos (Piaglitizone) is a drug used to treat those who suffer from Type 2 Diabetes and has been a wildly successful product as it has been the best selling drug of it’s kind.  Unfortunately it is also now known for causing bladder cancer in patients who have been taking Actos for over 1 year. This is a drug that has been banned in Europe but is still allowed to be sold and administered to patients here in the U.S. In September 2010, the FDA issued a warning regarding the link …

Recently the FDA issued a warning on those using proton pump inhibitors like Nexium for treatment of GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease) and acid reflux. PPI’s treat GERD and heartburn by inhibiting the generation of acid-ions known as protons.The warnings from the FDA were issues as a result of injuries reported and from a study which appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that showed a significant increase in the number of hip fractures for those patients taking a proton-pump inhibitor for more than 1 year. As a …

Reno, Nev. • As of Saturday, the Reno air show race crash has now claimed 9 lives and that number could increase as others are seriously injured. The accident happened when the pilot of a 1940s-model plane appeared to lose a piece of its tail before slamming like a missile into a crowded tarmac. The plan literally dropped like a rock and went into an area where spectators were watching.
Only moments before the accident, fans looked skyward and watched the planes speed by just a few hundred …

A man has been arrested after allegedly stabbing his wife to death. Miami police officers responded to the call of a woman who had suffered multiple stab wounds. The woman had been found under the awning of an apartment towards the back of a home. “A woman was here in a blood bath, It all stemmed from domestic violence.” Miami Police spokesperson Kenia Reyes states.
A neighbor had said that the attack happened in front of her. “I saw it. She came running, and he stabbed her with the knife, three …

Johnathan Rickman, age 17, died due to an open wound to the stomach at Oakland County Medical from a 15 year old who was charged with open murder and assault with a dangerous weapon. Rickman’s death was ruled out as homicide. Police say he was stabbed outside a party on Saturday after getting into a fight. Rickman may have been the one to initiate the assault, and at some point the suspect must have grabbed the nearest kitchen knife.
“As far as we know, the fight was just between the two …

Two teenage boys, ages 16 and 17, have been arrested on charges of murder and violation charges. The murder was in connection to a deadly shooting of a 3 month old baby boy in East Palo Alto, who’s parents were also injured from the scurried range of bullets shot at them. The bullets shot through their car as they were leaving a family friend baby shower.
Police were knocking door to door interviewing known gang members and parolees, the two teens were then picked up on Sunday after the manhunt. The …

KFSN-TV has reported Christopher Rey Cheary entered the pleas Monday after his arrest last week in the May 11th death of Sophia Acosta of Exeter.
Cheary is a 20 year old Tulare County man who pleaded not guilty to sexual assault and beating to death of his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter.
Sophia died four days later at Madera hospital, after police the police had recieved an emergency call and found her lifeless on the floor of Cheary’s apartment. The cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head, triggering brain hemorrhaging.
According to …

A 24-year-old man from Sunnyvale was struck and killed by a San Jose bound train at the Pal Alto Caltrain station around 7:30 p.m. Monday.
Caltrain spokeswoman, Christine Dunn, stated, “Preliminary investigation indicates that the person acted intentionally.”  Approximately 115 passengers were on the train.
“This is the fourth Caltrain fatality on the right of way this year,” Dunn said.
She also stated that VTA and SamTrans will honor Caltrain tickets for the passengers.
The fatality caused Caltrain to temporarily halt a southbound train at the Menlo Park station and a northbound train at …