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• Woman Accuses Nursing Home of Neglect

  Christina Cole | January 10, 2007 9:53 PM | 0 CommentsBloomington, IN

  An 81-year-old woman says she was the victim of neglect and abuse during her two month stay at Chicago Heights nursing home.In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, Rose Capriotti alleges she fell on her head and suffered from numerous bedsores while recovering from a stroke at the Prairie Manor Nursing home and Rehabilitation Center. Prairie Manor is operated by Care Centers Inc and operates 26 centers...

• Pain Caused by Drunk Driver Never Goes Away

  Fred Schultz | August 07, 2009 11:46 AM | 1 CommentBloomington, IN

  I was really moved by an article in today's paper. Larry Haywood is a victim of a drunk driver who killed his daughter and grandson twenty years ago. This week, he was speaking to a group of 250...

• Motorcycle Accidents Almost Always Serious

  Fred Schultz | August 27, 2008 7:03 PM | 0 CommentsBloomington, IN

  I read today that a serious motorcycle accident happened in Jackson County earlier this morning. From reading the article, it sounds like the gentleman on the motorcycle was seriously injured....

• Recent Bus Crashes Very Troubling

  Fred Schultz | August 11, 2008 4:37 PM | 0 CommentsBloomington, IN

  There have been a recent string of bus crashes on our nation's highways causing serious injuries that are very troubling. Most recently, twenty people were injured when a bus veered off the road...

• Reckless Driving Creates Risk of Injury to Others

  Fred Schultz | July 29, 2008 1:13 PM | 0 CommentsBloomington, IN

  Yesterday, an Indianapolis man was stopped by a State Police Trooper for going 127 miles per hour in his Corvette on S.R. 37. Indiana State Police Trooper Dustin Starnes was patrolling Ind. 37...

• Truck Driver involved in Fatal Crash did not have CDL

  Fred Schultz | July 23, 2008 5:49 PM | 0 CommentsBloomington, IN

  A tragic accident happened on S.R. 37 south of Bloomington Tuesday evening. An older woman was killed and her grandaughter was seriously injured when a semi-truck heading south-bound on S.R. 37...

• Infected Employees Can Spread Salmonella

  Staff Writer | March 15, 2007 12:03 PM | 0 CommentsBloomington, IN

  Indianapolis injury lawyer Steve Wagner's staff has posted about a possible Brownsville Wal-Mart deli worker being infected with salmonella. The worker contacted the Indiana Department of health and was informed this was a health code violation. The employee clearly was unaware that his or her sickness was salmonella poisoning from eating tainted peanut butter, but perhaps Wal-Mart management...

• Indiana Sheriff Deputies have to Fight for Disability Pensions

  Fred Schultz | September 09, 2008 9:32 PM | 0 CommentsBloomington, IN

  Its shameful that Indiana Sheriff Deputies who are permanently disabled while in the line of duty are not guaranteed decent disability pensions. Apparently, city police have disability protections...

• CPSC Investigating Fisher-Price Toy Recall

  Chrissie Cole | August 13, 2007 2:20 AM | 0 CommentsBloomington, IN

  The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is investigating whether Fisher-Price alerted them as quickly as it should, about lead paint found in over 1.5 million toys manufactured in China, that were part of the worldwide recall announced last week.Scott Wolfson, a spokesman for the commission, told The Associated Press on Monday that it was conducting "an active and open" investigation into...

• Faulty Brakes causing Fires in Ford Escapes

  Christina Cole | April 11, 2007 3:28 PM | 0 CommentsBloomington, IN

  Ford Motor Company is recalling about 527,000, 2001-2004 Ford Escape model crossovers, due to defective antilock brake systems that can catch on fire.Incorrectly installed or missing seals on the wire harness can lead to corrosion when water or road salt gets near the electrical connector, according to Ford. The corrosion can cause the ABS warning light to come on and lead to burning or melting...