December 8, 2009 – More than 20 percent of the nation’s water treatment systems have violated key provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act over the last five years, according to a New York Times analysis of federal data. That law requires communities to deliver safe tap water to local residents. But since 2004, the […]
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December 8, 2009 – The Supreme Court on Monday seemed headed toward telling police they must explicitly advise criminal suspects that their lawyer can be present during any interrogation. The arguments in front of the justices were the latest over how explicit the Miranda warning rights have to be, as justices debated whether the warnings
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December 8, 2009 – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took a major step Monday toward regulating greenhouses gases, concluding that climate changing pollution threatens the public health and the environment. The announcement came as the Obama administration looked to boost its arguments at an international climate conference that the United States is aggressively taking actions
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December 7, 2009 – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has opened an investigation into the popular Zhu Zhu Pets toy because it may contain a higher than allowed level of antimony, a heavy metal which if ingested can make children sick, NBC News reported. “CPSC is looking into the Zhu Zhu pet toy
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December 3, 2009 –All counterfeit products are illegal. But counterfeit electronics are not just illegal, they are dangerous. “These things can kill you,” says Brett Brenner, president of the Electrical Safety Foundation, an industry-funded organization based in Roslyn, Va. “A counterfeit purse or a CD isn’t going to hurt you. But a counterfeit electrical product
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December 3, 2009 – A driver heading west on I-8 was killed this morning when his pickup truck veered off the freeway and overturned several times, narrowly missing an SUV before coming to rest in the driveway of a Mission Valley business. The man was heading west about 7:30 a.m. in a white 1990 Toyota
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December 2, 2009 – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in cooperation with LaJobi Inc., of Cranbury, NJ, today announced a voluntary recall of their “Molly” and “Betsy” style wooden cribs. The end panels on the “Molly” style cribs are made of solid wood with openings on both sides, with the following model numbers:
December 2, 2009 – More than three years after Congress ordered stepped-up monitoring of sex offenders, only one state has adopted the government’s strict new requirements, and some others are weighing whether to ignore the law and just pay a penalty. So far, Ohio is the lone state to meet the new federal standards. Elsewhere,
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