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• Tainted-Beef Recalled for E. coli

  Richard Schulte | October 01, 2007 11:39 AM | 0 CommentsDayton, OH

  The Topps Meat Co.'s massive recall of frozen hamburger beef, it may have sickened 25 people in eight states.The food recall is the latest in a rash of E. coli-related callbacks this year, including tainted spinach and salad mixes. The USDA said it is unable to explain why there have been so many outbreaks.If you find any of the recalled meat in your freezer, the safest thing to do is throw it...

• Dayton Officer Injured In Bus, Car Collision

  Richard Schulte | September 24, 2007 11:16 AM | 0 CommentsDayton, OH

  DAYTON, Ohio -- Police in Dayton said an officer was injured when his cruiser collided with a car and a school bus.The crash happened around 2:30 p.m. Friday at the intersection of Keowee and Monument Streets.The driver of the car said the officer ran a red light. The officers and the bus driver were taken to a local hospital.Investigators said none of the children on the bus were injured.The...

• Ohio to suspend death penalty system

  Richard Schulte | September 24, 2007 11:10 AM | 0 CommentsDayton, OH

  Ohio should temporarily suspend executions to allow a review of the state's capital punishment system because of several flaws, including racial and geographic imbalances, a team of lawyers concluded in a study to be released Monday.''The state fails to provide adequate measures to protect defendants,'' ABA President William Neukom said in a statement. ''Nobody should be executed until the...

• Thai air crash kills 88

  Richard Schulte | September 17, 2007 10:57 AM | 0 CommentsDayton, OH

  A budget airliner crashed while trying to land in driving rain and swirling wind, killing 89 people, 55 of them foreigners. A Forensic team from Israel will be arriving Tuesday.Three years after Phuket saw the largest forensic operation in history, Thai and foreign experts will join forces to identify the charred bodies from Sunday's plane crash on the Thai resort island.For more information on...

• Avandia Linked to 42% Greater Risk of Heart Attack

  Richard Schulte | September 13, 2007 11:21 AM | 0 CommentsDayton, OH

  Users of Avandia, appear to be at increased risk for a heart attack or heart failure. Regulators should seriously consider whether the drug should be allowed to remain on the market.The pooled data from the trials indicated that Avandia, compared with controls, significantly increased the risk of heart attack by 42 percent (94 of 6,421 patients who received Avandia vs. 83 of 7,870 patients who...

• Vioxx class action rejected by top N.J. court

  Richard Schulte | September 07, 2007 1:46 PM | 0 CommentsDayton, OH

  New Jersey's Supreme Court yesterday rejected a class-action lawsuit against painkiller Vioxx maid by Merck & Co. The ruling is a huge legal victory for the drug maker, which faces nearly 27,000 individual lawsuits from people claiming Vioxx, once a widely used arthritis treatment, caused heart attacks and strokes.The state's highest court, reversing two lower-court decisions, ruled that a...

• Drug stents worse on heart attack victims

  Richard Schulte | September 04, 2007 1:17 PM | 0 CommentsDayton, OH

  Heart attack victims given drug-coated stents after an acute heart attack are nearly five times more likely to die six months to two years later than those with bare metal forms of the arterial scaffolding, research showed on Tuesday.Drug stents remain highly controversial in the cardiology community and fears about late stent thrombosis have led to a slump in sales in the past year.Eckhart...

• Strattera patent challenged

  Richard Schulte | August 29, 2007 1:53 PM | 0 CommentsDayton, OH

  The patent on hyperactivity-disorder drug Strattera is being challenged by Novartis AG's Sandoz unit. Novartis is seeking a pre-emptive ruling that its proposed generic version of Strattera won't infringe a Lilly patent that expires in 2017, or that the patent is invalid.Icelandic drugmaker Actavis Group hf is already being sued by Lilly to block a generic version of Strattera, which generated...

• Annette Brown takes on City Hall

  Richard Schulte | August 22, 2007 1:01 PM | 0 CommentsDayton, OH

  City of Dayton Employee Annette Brown has a college degree, an MBA, and had worked in finance for 6 years. Until recently she was a dedicated civil servant. Now the City has placed her on administrative leave and she faces a hearing on August 27th to terminate her employment because the City of Dayton claims she is in violation of the city charter requiring that she "reside" and "live" within...

• City of Dayton refuses to budge on residency restrictions

  Richard Schulte | August 20, 2007 10:51 AM | 0 CommentsDayton, OH

  Dayton has nearly double the population of Canton, but the two cities share many of the same struggles. Both have lost manufacturing jobs over the last two decades and experienced a steady decline in population. Poor performing school districts in both communities helped fuel a lament by city employees over forced residency. Only in Canton, city employees won.City officials in Dayton aren't...