Medtronic Inc, a medical device maker, is contesting claims that it is responsible for the death of a California woman whose doctor inserted a bone-growth protein into her neck. According to this news report in the St. Paul Business Journal, Shirley Nisbet of Vista, California, had Medtronic’s Infuse Bone Graft…
A teenager who was killed in a Fresno ATV accident on December 6, 2008 has been identified as 16-year-old Alyssa Wiley. According to this news report in the Fresno Bee, the off-road vehicle accident occurred in the 13000 block of Bullard Avenue near Academy Avenue. California Highway Patrol officials apparently…
Three people are dead and one other is presumed dead after a U.S. Military jet crashed around noon on December 8, 2008 in University City, San Diego. According to this news report in the San Diego Union-Tribune, a mother, her young child and the child’s grandmother died at 4416 Cather…
Carol Sue Patterson, 67, was killed in a Yorba Linda pedestrian accident on December 6, 2008, The Orange County Register reports. Patterson was crossing Bastanchury Road near Prospect Avenue with 80-year-old Ronald Iver Severson when they were both hit by a 2006 Dodge Charger. The driver was identified as 68-year-old…
Ralph Mongenel. 61, of Santa Ana, was killed in an Anaheim motorcycle accident on December 6 2008, The Orange County Register reports. Mongenel was riding south on Brookhurst Street under the 91 Freeway in Anaheim when he hit the center divider at the south side of the intersection. He was…
Two teenage girls, who worked at a Minnesota nursing home, are being charged with physically, emotionally and sexually abusing elderly Alzheimer’s patients at the facility, according to this shocking MSNBC News report. Brianna Broitzman, 19, and Ashton Larson, 18, allegedly spat in residents’ mouths, poked and grabbed them and at…
A 22-year-old woman who was bitten by a police dog while sleeping in the garage of a Cypress home, has filed a legal claim against the city and the police department, The Orange County Register reports. Apparently, the police department’s German Shepherd bit Alicia Quinonez at about 2 a.m. on…
William Finke, an 82-year-old passenger in a 2000 Crown Victoria, was seriously injured in a rollover collision in Dixon, California, on December 1, 2008. According to a news article in The Vacaville Reporter, the 12/1/08 rollover crash occurred on Highway 113 about a half mile south of Midway Road. The…
California Highway Patrol officials in San Diego County are looking for a hit-and-run driver who struck and ran over bicyclist, 30-year-old Edward Costa in Alpine on December 2, 2008. According to this NBC news report, the 12/2/08 fatal San Diego bicycle accident occurred along Alpine Boulevard near Rock Terrace Road.…
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has approved a new rule that will require merging commercial truck and bus drivers’ licenses with medical examination certificates into one electronic record. According to this Associated Press news report, this is part of the federal agency’s effort to get medically unfit truck…