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Twin 9-year-old girls drowned earlier this month when they were swept by water currents near the Texas City dike, just south of Houston, TX. Reports say the girls, Alexandra and Samantha Suarez, were swimming near the dike Sunday morning when a current pulled them out into the bay. The girls’ father attempted to rescue them but he was also swept out by the current, according to the statement. Emergency crews were immediately dispatched by Coast Guard Air Station Houston, as…

A Vancouver boy who was hospitalized for an E. coli infection died recently. One of four children hospitalized due to an outbreak, the youngster, whose name was not released, had apparently contracted the infection from a Vancouver day care center. Officials temporarily closed the home-based day care center, operated by Larry and Dianne Fletch, on April 2, reports say. The day care had operated since 1990 and had no complaints filed against it prior to the death, reports say. In…

A Knox County, Kentucky resident, died recently at Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington after being admitted for intestinal problems. The victim, Vickie Shelton, had eaten ground beef before becoming ill, and public health officials conducted tests to determine whether that ground beef was contaminated with E. Coli. Before it was discovered that the meat was tainted, the American Foods Group of Green Bay, Wisconsin issued the recall on products produced in October and reportedly shipped to retailers and distributors in…

Louisiana inspectors are focusing on the restraining device on a 21-year-old woman’s seat which may have failed, vaulting the woman from a Baton Rouge Amusement park’s roller coaster, killing her, reports say Lindsay Zeno was killed when the bar that goes between the rider’s legs and is supposed to secure the rider in place reportedly failed. The coaster, named the “Xtreme”, has had no previous issues with safety or safety restraints. Reports also say the park passed a national inspection…

Reports say some commercially packaged Leadbetter Cowboy Beef Burger has been the cause of five possible E. coli infections, with at least one more suspected case being investigated. The cases have reportedly occurred at a youth camp in Ontario, Canada, and that at least one of those sickened by the tainted burgers had to be hospitalized. Although the youth has now been released — and everyone else who was stricken by the meat has recovered – the public needs to…