The Senate has passed legislation to make food safer in the wake of deadly E. coli and salmonella outbreaks, potentially giving the government broad new powers to increase inspections of food processing facilities and force companies to recall tainted food. The $1.4 billion bill, which would also place stricter standards on imported foods, passed the […]
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Mountain View water polo player in coma following car accident
Caroline Hansen, a Saint Francis High School senior, considered one of the area’s best water polo players, was seriously injured in a multiple-car crash Saturday, according to a source close to the girl’s family. Hansen was driving southbound on Interstate 280 near El Monte Avenue when she was broadsided on the passenger side by another […]
Big-rig driver involved in 3 seperate fatalities
Big-rig driver Gabriel Manzur Vera, who was involved in collisions that killed cyclist and Santa Cruz teacher John Myslin in Santa Cruz in 2007, Lauren Perdriau Ward, a 47 year-old mother of two from Los Altos hills was also was driving during a third fatal accident in Moss Landing in 2003. Police determined Vera was […]
UCSF shuttle bus kills pedestrian
An unidentified 65-year-old woman was killed this afternoon when she was struck by a UCSF shuttle bus as she was crossing Geary Street at Leavenworth, according to San Francisco police. The accident which occurred at 12:27 pm as The bus was headed north on Leavenworth and turned left onto Geary, at 12:27 pm when the […]
VMC brain injury conference announced
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center and it staff have announce the 2011 The Santa Clara Valley Brain Injury Conference: Building on the Legacy of Coma to Community, will be held February 24-26, 2011 at the historic Dolce Hayes Mansion in San José, California. The conference is the reintroduction of the Coma to Community Conference hosted […]
