|
Announcements
|
|
|
|
|
|
TTLA E-Clips Blog
|
|
|
|
TTLA E-Clips: The exact same publication you receive daily
by email. You can check our site at your convenience or subscribe to
our RSS feed.
|
|
TTLA News Rapids Blog
|
|
|
|
Streams of news feeding into a river of information. Read
the top news stories, the latest reports from advocacy groups and
government agencies. You can check our site at your convenience or
subscribe to our RSS feed.
|
|
Products
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ford Trucks Recalled due to
Transmission Problem
|
|
|
|
Ford Motors has issued a recall of certain F-150, F-250,
F-350, F-450 and F-550 trucks after it was discovered the vehicles can
be shifted out of "park" without pressing the brake. The company
said there is a problem with the brake/shift interlock, which increases
the “risk of crash or injury to a nearby pedestrian.” Fred
Meier, USA Today 12/15/2011
|
|
Read Article: USA Today
|
|
Laws/Cases
|
|
|
|
|
|
Suit: School to Blame in DUI Death
of 9-Year-Old Girl
|
|
|
|
A Tennessee woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit
against the Sumner County Board of Education after her nine-year-old
daughter was killed in a DUI accident after school with her drunk
stepfather. The lawsuit claims school officials were negligent in
allowing the girl to be picked up from school by her intoxicated
stepfather who "was not on the approved transportation list."
The lawsuit is seeking unspecified damages. Jennifer Easton,
Tennessean 12/14/2011
|
|
Read Article: Tennessean
|
|
Lawsuit Filed After Fatal
Helicopter Crash
|
|
|
|
A lawsuit has been filed against a helicopter tour company
over the death of a newlywed couple in a helicopter crash earlier this
month in Nevada. The cause of the crash is still under investigation,
but a strange maneuver just before the crash points to either
mechanical or pilot error, the lawyer for the plaintiffs said. Five
people were killed in the crash. Keith Rogers, Las Vegas
Review Journal 12/14/2011
|
|
Read Article: Las Vegas Review Journal
|
|
BP Settles With Maker of Failed Blowout Preventer
|
|
|
|
Cameron International, the maker of the Deepwater Horizon
blowout preventer that failed to stop last year's massive oil spill in
the Gulf of Mexico, has agreed to pay $250 million to BP under a legal
settlement, BP said Friday. BP said it was "in their mutual best
interests, and the agreement is not an admission of liability by either
party." The companies are dropping all claims against one another,
they said. The settlement comes in advance of a federal trial over the
catastrophic Gulf oil spill. The non-jury trial is slated to begin in
February and determine fault in the April 20, 2010, explosion and
subsequent oil spill off the Louisiana coast of more than 200 million
gallons of oil. Associated Press, The Dallas Morning News
12/16/2011
|
|
Read Article: The Dallas Morning News
|
|
Mistrial Declared in TxDOT Wrongful
Death Trial
|
|
|
|
A mistrial was declared Thursday in a wrongful death
lawsuit trial against the Texas Department of Transportation. The suit
was filed by the Ramiro Reyes' widow. He died in December 2008 when his
vehicle skidded on an Interstate 10 ramp and hit a pillar where the
agency had sprayed a de-icing agent, anticipating a freeze that never
came. Craig Kapitan, San Antonio Express News 12/16/2011
|
|
Read Article: San Antonio Express News
|
|
Issues
|
|
|
|
|
|
FDA Accusing Company of False
Marketing
|
|
|
|
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has accused a
California marketing company of misleading customers in its promotion
of Lap-Band weight loss surgery. The agency said the company,
1-800-GET-THIN, grossly underplays the serious risks of the procedure
to its patients. Agency officials said they began investigating the
company after receiving complaints about the ads from the head of Los
Angeles County's public health agency. Stuart Pfeifer, Duke
Helfand and W.J. Hennigan, LA Times 12/16/2011
|
|
Read Article: LA Times
|
|
|
|
|