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Two days ago we wrote about the driver of a "monster truck," his modified Ford F-250, who was drunk behind the wheel after drinking for hours at a strip club, and ended up hitting and killing a young woman in the parking lot. Incidents like this make it plain that...
Major insurance company Farmers Group, Inc. has announced plans to stop providing homeowners coverage for California dog owners with pit bulls, Rottweilers, and wolf hybrids, according to Sharon Bernstein with NBC Los Angeles. "[T]hese three breeds caused more harm...
The heavily-modified, jacked-up Ford F-250 pickup shouldn't have even been on the road, according to Bruce Tomaso with the Dallas Morning News, when the driver of the so-called "monster truck," Eric Crutchfield, crushed a young woman outside a strip club in 2011....
As Justin Ray reports for NBC 5 News, Missouri City in Texas has decided to take a "crash tax" from drivers involved in a car wreck in order to recoup costs associated with emergency response services. The Missouri City Fire Department will be the one charging for the...
Ryan Loyd, reporting for Texas Public Radio, says that the oil boom in the Eagle Ford Shale - South Texas's 50-mile wide, 400-mile long fossil-fuel rich swath - is a bittersweet thing for Texans. There are big profits, but also big costs, even human costs. Eagle Ford...
Drug company Merck, maker of cholesterol medicines that rake in billions, faced accusations that it did not release "bad news," as the Associated Press characterizes it, about its cholesterol drugs Zetia and Vytorin. It turns out that the cheap cholesterol pills do...
The 31-year-old father took a gun from his home, went outside to the site of the accident, and shot the driver responsible for the DWI-related wreck in the head. This was shortly after the driver had plowed into the pickup truck and killed the father's two young sons....
Good marketing and advertising occasionally trumps quality. It appears that way when it comes to ads for the drug Pradaxa. In a survey conducted by the Association of Medical Media (AMM), doctors said these Pradaxa ads were the most effective. There were six criteria:...
Everyone knows - or should know - that smoking cigarettes near flammable materials (like oil storage tanks) might cause an explosion. That appears to be exactly what happened to two Texas oil and gas workers on Tuesday, and it didn't take long for readers to comment...
According to the Houston Chronicle, Texas is one of the worst states for highway safety laws. For anyone who's driven recently in South Texas, especially around the 18-wheelers and large commercial trucks from the Eagle Ford Shale, you already might've guessed that...
