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• DUI Arrest Follows Head-on Crash on Highway 44

  Todd Slaughter | October 22, 2008 5:35 PM | 0 CommentsRedding, CA

  REDDING, Calif. - The Record Searchlight reported that a three-vehicle head-on crash occurred on State Route 44 between Palo Cedro and Redding yesterday afternoon. A 31-year-old Redding woman was...

• Driver in Fatal Bus Rollover Crash Arrested

  Todd Slaughter | October 07, 2008 2:16 PM | 0 CommentsRedding, CA

  WILLIAMS, Calif. - The 52 year-old driver of the charter bus that lost control and rolled over in a ditch, killing eight passengers, was arrested yesterday on suspicion of driving under the...

• Horrific Casino Bound Bus Rollover Kills 10

  Todd Slaughter | October 06, 2008 12:35 PM | 0 CommentsRedding, CA

  COLUSA COUNTY, Calif - Yesterday evening at about 6:10 p.m. a charter bus bound for the Colusa Casino Resort drifted or veered off a rural two-lane road before it overcorrected and lost control. It...

• National Rankings for Palliative Care

  Todd Slaughter | October 03, 2008 2:51 PM | 0 CommentsRedding, CA

  Over the last decade a new specialty of medicine, known as Palliative Care Medicine, has grown from a small set of practitioners sprinkled throughout America to a nationwide practice. The field is...

• Can Whole Cuts of Meats Carry Deadly E. coli?

  Todd Slaughter | October 01, 2008 1:16 PM | 0 CommentsRedding, CA

  BUTTE COUNTY, Calif. - A recent outbreak of E. coli poisoning at a Forest Ranch Volunteer Firefighter's fundraising event raises questions about how the dangerous bacteria could be attributed to...

• Ski-Doo Snowmobiles Recalled for Defective Drive-Axle

  Todd Slaughter | September 30, 2008 1:45 PM | 0 CommentsRedding, CA

  It is now moving into the fall . It's time to start getting our snow gear ready for winter fun. If you have a 2008 or 2009 Ski-Doo Snowmobile model listed below, you will need to do one more thing,...

• Fire Fighter's Benefit Leads to E-Coli Outbreak

  Todd Slaughter | September 19, 2008 7:28 PM | 0 CommentsRedding, CA

  OROVILLE, Calif. - A fundraising benefit for the Forest Ranch volunteer fire department has been identified as the source of a recent outbreak of E. coli related illnesses in Butte County. The...

• Health Net Settles Cancellation Cases

  Todd Slaughter | September 16, 2008 2:31 PM | 0 CommentsRedding, CA

  California based Health Net Inc., one of the nation's largest publicly traded managed health care companies, agreed Friday to pay approximately $25 million to settle claims of unfair claims handling...

• Chronic Whiplash Pain Is Real, and Often Caused by Spinal Facet Injury

  Todd Slaughter | September 12, 2008 7:24 PM | 2 CommentsRedding, CA

  In an article published in late 2007 in the prestigious Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the often asserted position that whiplash injuries cannot result in chronic pain was...

• CPSC Warns - No Pillows in Cribs

  Todd Slaughter | September 10, 2008 1:30 PM | 0 CommentsRedding, CA

  The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recently issued a list of Nursery Safety Guidelines to parents of young infants and children. This is a good common sense list that includes such...