4 cops charged with allegedly stealing cigarettesThe investigation discovered that some firearms were allegedly sold to people, particularly in the East Rand area.Following leads, a Gauteng education department employee, Kgotso Mooketsi, 36, was arrested in Springs while in alleged possession of an R4 rifle and three empty magazines.Mooketsi, who is out on bail for an…
By Dixon Hayes | April 20, 2020 at 4:55 PM CDT - Updated April 20 at 5:12 PM ETOWAH COUNTY, Ala. (WBRC) - The coronavirus has taken an especially heavy toll on a family in East Alabama. Three members of the family, Phacethia Posey, her father Billy Ray Woods, both of Gadsden, and his nephew/her…
For more than thirty years I have represented the families on the other end of a foodborne outbreak — the parents of children on dialysis with hemolytic uremic syndrome, the survivors of a contaminated hamburger or a bag of spinach, the people left planning funerals. I built a career holding companies accountable when the food
More people are sick in a multi-country Salmonella outbreak in Europe mainly affecting children and young adults. A total of 83 confirmed cases had symptom onset between December 2025 and mid-May 2026. Another 24 cases identified in 2026 have not yet been sequenced and may be part of the outbreak. At least 20 people have
For over thirty years, I have been beating the same drum, and the last few days were no exception (some argue a bit too loudly and self-serving). I have been posting about public health officials — and the FDA — sending out outbreak documents with the names of companies, growers, processors, and retailers blacked out