The Faye Road chemical plant in Jacksonville exploded this afternoon around 2:30 and burst into flames. The exact reason for the conflagration at the Jacksonville chemical facility was not immediately clear, but one witness described the explosion as an immense 'black mushroom cloud rising up very quickly.'Buildings near the chemical plant had their windows completely blown out, and people...
Earlier this year the FDA released an alert about gadolinium-based contrast agents, announcing its decision to ask all manufacturers of these agents to place black-box warnings on these contrast agents. Gadolinium-based contrast agents are used by diagnosticians to heighten the image quality of a magnetic resonance image (MRI).The announced black box warning in May of 2007 came as a result of...
A huge scrap metal fire at a metal recycling plant broke out early this morning, sending reams of smoke billowing over an entire portion of southern Hillsborough County. Firefighters attempted to out the scrap metal fire at Trademark Metal Recycling with water, to no avail. Large clouds of smoke from the fire could be seen from miles away.According to media reports, the Hillsborough...
A University of Ohio professor and some assistants have uncovered some scary results about toys that are targeted for Halloween this year: shocking levels of lead content. In original reporting by CBS news, Professor Jeffrey Weidenhammer and his staff have uncovered dangerous levels of lead in a toy called "Ugly teeth." The fake plastic teeth aren't only ugly, but have about 100 times the...
A sixteen-year-old was run over twice by passing cars on Sunday night in Land O' Lakes and survived. Michael Mauritzen was walking after hours on Thys Road Sunday night when the right mirror of a passing minivan struck him in the back, knocking him right off his feet and ripping the mirror off the van.Michael was then run over completely by a Ford Taurus as he lay on the ground writhing in...
The Arizona Cardinals were on their way to the stadium on Sunday when two police motorcycles accompanying their buses crashed into one another. A police escort of two motorcycles was riding with the team to the field when the officers' cycles unexpectedly collided.According to Washington D.C. police, both officers sustained minor injuries in the accident. The officers were treated in a nearby...
