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IKEA Recalls LEOPARD Highchairs

The third week of December, The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and IKEA Home Furnishings, of Conshohocken, Pa., recalled LEOPARD Highchairs. The snap locks used to secure the seat to…

By Mike Bryant

/ 27 Dec 2009

Street Racing Caused Death Leads To Criminal Vehicular Homicide Plea

Last September, I wrote about the death of a man that was killed after being hit by a car that had been involved in a St Paul street race. The police had arrived at the race, so the one of the…

By Mike Bryant

/ 27 Dec 2009

Heavy Snow And Budget Woes: What It Could Mean For Our Roads?

The continued budget issues and the heavy snow may be leading to bigger problems for Minnesota roads. One of the responses was especially concerning for all drivers: Mike Kennedy, the Minneapolis…

By Mike Bryant

/ 26 Dec 2009

Law Of The Snow

The local TV station WCCO had a interesting piece on driving in the snow. It’s worth taking the time to review: – Do the windows need to be clear? – What speed can you drive? – What about the…

By Mike Bryant

/ 26 Dec 2009

Albert Lea : Story Of Main And Bridge Tells Us Something About Car Collisions

Albert Lea is seeing an ongoing problem at the intersections of Main and Bridge. The problem is too many collisions. The Albert Lea Tribune looked at the Albert Lea Police Department crash data from…

By Mike Bryant

/ 26 Dec 2009

Wisconsin Increases Drunk Driving Penalties

This week the state of Wisconsin toughened their drunk driving laws: first offense drunk driving in most cases is equivalent to a traffic ticket. Under the new legislation, if there is a child in…

By Mike Bryant

/ 26 Dec 2009

Joy Of Christmas

Due to having divorced parents I had the opportunity growing up of seeing Christmas arrive in two separate parts of the country. With my mom, Christmas in Rhode Island was lobster dinner at my god…

By Mike Bryant

/ 25 Dec 2009

Life Threatening Travel

We have been representing injured people for a long time. Here at the Injuryboard there are regular stories about tragic collisions across the country. But, this is one of the first time I have seen…

By Mike Bryant

/ 24 Dec 2009

More Snow On The Way: Be Safe

There is already a lot of snow out there. The predictions are that we will be seeing 2 or 3 more rounds of it. Makes you wonder where it will all get piled up. MnDot is already responding to…

By Mike Bryant

/ 24 Dec 2009

Stop Fire Tragedies: Adopt Your Fire Hydrant

We have a fire hydrant on the front left corner of our yard. Other than having to cut the grass closer around it, I really didn’t think much about it. Then one day, our local fire department…

By Mike Bryant

/ 24 Dec 2009

The Opposition To The Health Care Bill Is Chasing Their Tail

I’ve been watching the health care debate for the last couple of weeks. It’s really tough to actually call this a debate considering it really is just a bunch of delay, deny and defend by a group…

By Mike Bryant

/ 23 Dec 2009

A Christmas Storm To Remember?

It looks like we are about to see two to three days of snow. They are predicting the most snow ever for Christmas and a storm like we saw back with the 1991 Halloween blizzard. That one shut the…

By Mike Bryant

/ 23 Dec 2009