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Although exactly what happened still isn’t clear, what is clear is that the death of 39-year-old Jennifer Michelle Patton was an accident. Patton veered off the road and into a pond, trapping her inside and ultimately drowning her, reports say. Patton, a marketing coordinator for an architectural firm two miles from where she died, was driving north on Fallkirk Drive near Campbell when she inexplicably veered left and drove into the water. The causes of the accident are still unknown….

  Individuals with high blood pressure or heart disease are being warned to avoid energy drinks, a recent report posted by the Henry Ford Hospital study said.   The study showed that adults without a risk of heart disease or high blood pressure who drank two cans of energy drink a day experienced an increase in their blood pressure and heart rate. The ramifications are that the increase in blood pressure would be harmful to people with a heart-related condition,…

Four Colorado high schools have issued warned to students about the dangers of a new locally-produced energy drink, SPIKE Shooter by Biotest Laboratories, a Colorado Springs company which is marketed in Colorado and California. Reports say that several teenagers sought medical facilities after drinking an eight-ounce can of SPIKE Shooter. One can has the equivalent of three cups of coffee, plus several other herbal stimulants. Each can carries a warning that it is not for use by those under the…

Reports from England say Red Bull is a possible contributor to the death of a student in a nightclub last year. The September 2008 death of Chloe Leach revealed that she drank four cans of the drink along with several VKs – a vodka-based drink that also contains caffeine – before she collapsed around 3 a.m. on a dance floor in Hull, Great Britain. The young 21-year-old woman had been diagnosed with epilepsy and was also believed to suffer from…

A Houston criminal defense attorney is finally in court, three years after a Houston woman mysteriously drowned in her bathtub.   The woman, 32-year-old Tara Sganga, was found dead in her bathtub. At the time, her boyfriend, A criminal defense attorney with a history of drug use, stands trial on charges that he gave her heroin before she died, reports said.   Harris County prosecutors opened their case against Shawn Roland Roberts late last summer, saying he injected her with…