A man was killed last Thursday, October 1, at his workplace when he was crushed by a forklift in Harris County. The tragic industrial accident was at the Tenaris Coiled Tubes location at E. Sam Houston Parkway near Tidwell. According to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, the early morning accident happened when the unidentified worker…
Today another person was killed in Harris County in a preventable traffic accident. The driver of an SUV died after colliding with a Metro bus in north west Houston in the 1700 block of Mangum near Hempstead Highway. The public bus was not carrying passengers at the time of the crash and the bus driver…
Two students were killed in when the school bus they were riding in flew off the 610 South Loop at Telephone Road in East Harris County. The driver and 2 other students were transported to area hospitals with serious injuries. Our thoughts and prayers are with their friends and families during this difficult time. The…
The FDA has just issued a warning about a class of type 2 diabetes medicines called dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors which may cause severe and debilitating joint pain. They have added this warning to the labels of all FDA approved DDP-4 inhibitors. This includes the drug, Januvia which is also being studied for a possible…
This week, 3 motorcyclists were killed in 3 separate accidents in Harris County. The first death occurred shortly before 10am Tuesday on Westpark Tollway at Fondren. Witnesses at the scene claim that a young male on a motorcycle was speeding and weaving between lanes of traffic when he struck at least 1 car and lost control. The…
Around 2am this morning, a suspected drunk driver caused a deadly accident in NW Harris County according to the Harris County Sherriff’s Office. The drunk driver suspect was heading west down FM 1960 in an SUV near Fritz Oak Place. His 4 year old daughter was sitting in the front seat and not in a…
Last Friday 12 members of the US Congress sent a request to the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) asking them to investigate the FDA’s monitoring of a potentially dangerous gynecological device. The laparoscopic power morcellator, has been in use since 1993. The tissue dissecting tool has been linked to the spread of cancerous cells in…
What Are Your Rights If Pulled Over By The Police? We have all been shocked by recent horror stories like the Cincinnati policeman shooting an unarmed man, Samuel DuBose during a traffic stop and the death of Sandra Bland in a Texas jail cell after a police officer pulled her over for failing to signal…
This week, a Houston area woman and a 12-year-old child were viciously mauled by 2 pit bulls in separate attacks at their apartment complex. The woman was attacked first and knocked down by the 2 biting dogs. By the time a neighbor came to the rescue of the woman, she suffered serious injuries to an…
