The owner of The Blessed Hands Home Health Services, Inc. has pled guilty to a felony charge of fraud in a scheme where she bilked money from Medicaid by filing false claims. The story in the St. Louis Dispatch notes that she admitted to the charge in court and that some of the people she […]
A worker for an outside contractor was found dead August 28, 2012 at a sewer facility on Highway 94 in St. Charles City. According to reports he likely died sometime early in the afternoon. His foreman had called officials around noon after he did not respond to calls after having gone underground around 11 AM. […]
On August 27 the New York Times published a report citing information supplied by the Journal of Applied Gerontology focusing on hand hygiene in nursing homes. It seems that since 2002 the proper cleansing of hands after handling patients and equipment has gone down. The survey showed that hand hygiene deficiency citations had increased in […]
The driver of a car that went hill hopping on Greens Bottom road was charged with involuntary manslaughter in the resulting car wreck that killed one teenager and injured two others. The St. Louis dispatch reports that Michael Gianino was the driver of the car that reached 75 miles an hour on the road which […]
The Sears, Roebuck & Company has issued a recall of 795,000 Kenmore dehumidifiers manufactured by LG Corporation and sold by Sears, Roebuck & Company and K-Mart stores. The law firm of Hoffman & Gelfman encourages anyone who has purchased this item to stop using it immediately. Dehumidifiers are especially useful in the summer when humidity […]
A man found in a ravine near Interstate 70 in Warrenton appears to have accidently drowned. Andrew Eli, 22, was out with friends at a fast food restaurant when he went to the men’s room and did not return to the group. His friends eventually called his family and his uncle and two cousins went […]
The St. Louis Post Dispatch has reported that Hai Minh Pham has been sentenced to five years imprisonment for causing the crash that took the life of John Casalone, aged 51, in October of last year. The defendant was at a birthday party for a coworker that night and entered the wrong lane of Interstate […]
Peg Perego USA and the U.S Consumer Product Safety Commission recently announced that Peg Perego is recalling about 223,000 baby strollers made between January 2004 and September 2007 because of the threat of entrapment and strangulation. A 6-month-old boy fromTarzana,California, died of strangulation after his head was trapped between the seat and the tray of one of […]
The St. Louis Post Dispatch has reported that a worker at the ConAgra plant in Alton, Missouri has died from injuries suffered at the plant after falling from a lift that was moving between floors. The company is conducting an internal investigation and OSHA will also be looking into the incident. OSHA has six months […]
A report of a man driving a pick-up truck erratically was quickly followed by a multi-vehicle accident on Highway 370 on August 1, 2012. The pick-up was involved in a minor accident but before police could get to the scene three vehicles behind the truck were involved in a second accident. The second accident resulted […]
