Feb 292012
 
{ VITAL Alert } FDA issues new warning on Lipitor, Zocor, other statins

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday raised safety concerns about the popular class of cholesterol-fighting drugs called statins, warning that patients taking the drugs may face a “small increased risk” of higher blood sugar levels and of being diagnosed with diabetes. The federal safety agency said Tuesday it plans to add the diabetes-risk language [Read more...]

Feb 292012
 
{ Weather Thread # 2 } Tornado Watch for Walker County, AL and more...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED TORNADO WATCH 50 IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS IN ALABAMA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 8 COUNTIES IN CENTRAL ALABAMA BLOUNT WALKER IN NORTHEAST ALABAMA CHEROKEE ETOWAH IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA MARION WINSTON IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA FAYETTE LAMAR THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF… CENTRE… [Read more...]

Feb 292012
 
Harveyville , Kansas man catches airborne grandson as he flies toward window during tornado

HARVEYVILLE, Kan. – A central Kansas man says he caught his 8-year-old grandson as he was about to be sucked out of a window when a tornado touched down in Harveyville Tuesday night. Rich and Debbie Roberts were in their living room watching television around 9 p.m. when the tornado, called an EF-2 by the [Read more...]

Feb 292012
 
{ Applause }O'Keefe Sues Current TV, Olbermann, Shuster

h/t FOX Nation Conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe filed suit for defamation this morning against Al Gore’s CurrentTV, as well as “Countdown” host Keith Olbermann and guest host David Shuster, for falsely referring to O’Keefe as a “convicted felon” and falsely reporting that O’Keefe had been accused of rape. O’Keefe has not been charged with a [Read more...]

Feb 292012
 
1 Coast Guard member dead, 3 missing after helicopter crashes in Alabama

MOBILE, Ala. – One Coast Guard member is dead and three others are missing after their helicopter crashed during a training mission Tuesday night in Mobile Bay, Ala. The Coast Guard MH-65C chopper went down about three miles from shore in the bay, a 413-square-mile inlet jutting into Alabama from the Gulf of Mexico. Rescue [Read more...]

Feb 292012
 
UPDATE: 13 dead, dozens hurt after tornadoes rip through Midwest

11:10 am cst… DEVELOPING: A powerful storm system that produced multiple reports of tornadoes struck the Midwest early Wednesday, killing at least 13 people in Illinois and Missouri. A spokeswoman for the Illinois Emergency Management Agency said the coroner’s office in the small town of Harrisburg, Ill., has reported that 10 people are dead as [Read more...]