Ikea, the Swedish furniture company known throughout the world, announced that it will be recalling more than 27 million dressers due to serious safety risks posed by the furniture item. Moreover, the product recall will be followed by a discontinuation of the furniture as an item being produced by Ikea. The product line is known …
A recent report indicates that up to 20 percent of all people who die as a result of trauma in United States emergency rooms and hospitals could potentially be saved by better medical treatment and/or quicker access to high-quality medical treatment. The report was conducted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NAS) …
Anton Yelchin, a popular Hollywood film actor perhaps best known for playing Chekov in the recent Star Trek movies, died in a tragic car accident. Friends of the celebrity found him pinned against a brick mailbox pillar by his 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee. It is believed that the Jeep rolled down the driveway of Yelchin’s …
One of the actors on the popular TV series “Glee†recently appeared in a federal court and pleaded not guilty to charges of child pornography possession. Mark Salling has been accused of storing numerous images of illicit child pornography on his personal computer. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, federal investigators conducted a search of …
An actor on the FX network show The Shield has been convicted in the fatal shooting of his wife. Michael Jace was convicted by a jury at the end of his murder trial in a Los Angeles courtroom. According to prosecutors in the case, 53-year-old Jace shot and killed his 40-year-old wife, April, at the …
Ryan Collins, the man who set off a media circus when he illegally hacked into the online accounts of Hollywood celebrities and stole their private nude photos, is headed to federal prison after pleading guilty to charges of illegally accessing a protected computer. Collins, a 36-year-old resident of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, recently appeared in federal court …
Hawaii lawmakers are pushing for a law that would require state residents who own handguns to have their information entered into a database maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The FBI database would then be updated anytime a resident of Hawaii was arrested in another state. When a person in the database is …
Mercedes-Benz has issued a massive recall of motor vehicles in connection with the larger Takata airbag recall. Takata Corporation, the Japan-based automotive parts company, previously announced that it will be recalling as many as 40 million airbag inflators due to a manufacturing defect that causes serious risk of injury or death in the event of …
US health officials are growingly increasingly worried about abuse of prescription painkillers because some drug addicts are getting creative in the ways they seek out drugs. Approximately 52 million people over the age of 12 have reported using prescription narcotics at some point in their lives, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a …
