The driver who died on a San Jose freeway over the weekend was identified by the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner’s Office Monday as Jordan Campbell a 22 year-old resident of San Jose. The California Highway Patrol reported Campbell was driving a silver Toyota Scion at a high rate of speed on southbound Interstate 280 […]
American Honda Recalls Portable Generators
American Honda Motor Co. of Torrance, Calif., recalled three models of portable generators because of the labels on the batteries. Approximately 2500 of the generators were recalled because the hazard labels attached to the batteries used on the generators are printed in Japanese instead of English. As a result, consumers handling the battery may not […]
Nutritional supplements snake-oil or dangeous products?
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R) Utah is the go to guy in Washington for the nutritional supplement industry. According to an article in today’s New York Times, his continual quest to keep his special interest friends happy is flooding the market with untested products claiming to cure everything from baldness to erectile dysfunction. Hatch, who is […]
Big Lots recalls bunk beds after child dies
Big Lots, of Columbus, Ohio, is voluntarily recalling about 30,000 metal futon bunk beds. Children behind the futon or in the ladder area of the bunk bed can get entrapped when the futon and its metal frame are lowered from the seated to the flat position. This is what happened to a three-year old Burlington, […]
HP expands battery recall for fire hazard
Hewlett Packard (HP) announced an expanded recall of several of it’s laptop computer batteries today that can overheat and cause fires.162,000 of the lithium-ion batteries used in HP and Compaq notebook computers were previously recalled in 2009 and 2010 by HP of Palo Alto, CA. The recalled lithium-ion batteries can overheat and rupture, posing fire […]
