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Walmart Issues Massive Recall For Juice Product Sold In 23 States, Including MA
Apple juice sold at Walmart has been recalled due to high arsenic levels.
The US Food and Drug Administration says 9,535 cases of the company's Great Value brand 100 percent apple juice were sold in six-packs of 8-ounce plastic bottles bearing this expiration date: Best if Used by DEC2824 CT89-6, and a UPC code of 0-78742-29655-5.
According to the FDA, the product contains inorganic arsenic above the action level set in industry guidance (13.2 parts per billion).
They were sold in 23 states: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia,…
Newly-Named Tropical Storm Bret Expected To Become Hurricane: Here's Projected Path
Newly-named Tropical Storm Bret is expected to become the first hurricane of the 2023 season.
Tropical Depression 3, which developed on Monday morning, June 19 in the central Atlantic, strengthened to tropical-storm status later in the day.
“While it is rare to get a storm to develop over the south-central Atlantic in June, it is not completely unheard of,” said AccuWeather Tropical Meteorologist Alex DaSilva.
Bret is forecast to strengthen and move across the Lesser Antilles as a hurricane on Thursday, June 22, and Friday, June 23, according to the National Hurricane Center,
It will…
Fiona Becomes Hurricane, Could Bring 'Life-Threatening Flash Flooding' To Puerto Rico
Tropical Storm Fiona has just strengthened to Category 1 hurricane status.
Fiona, the sixth named storm of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season, is located about 50 miles southwest of Puerto Rico at around midday on Sunday, Sept. 18, the National Hurricane Center said.
It is the third hurricane of the 2020 season, ending Wednesday, November 30. It began Wednesday, June 1.
A northwestward movement is expected to begin later Sunday and continue through Monday, Sept. 19, followed by a north-northwest turn on Tuesday, Sept. 20, the hurricane center noted.
On the forecasted trajectory…
Former CT Resident Sentenced For Trafficking Cocaine Through US Mail
A former Connecticut resident has been sentenced for trafficking kilograms of cocaine through the United States mail.
Marcos Mendez, age 31, of Florida, was sentenced on Monday, Oct. 18, to 72 months in prison and four years of supervised release for trafficking cocaine through the mail from Puerto Rico to Connecticut and Massachusetts, according to Leonard Boyle, acting United States attorney for the District of Connecticut.
Between July and December 2018, authorities seized five parcels that were mailed to addresses in Bristol, Meriden and Burlington, Connecticut, and in Worcest…
JetBlue Passenger Tries Storming Cockpit, Breaks Out Of Restraints On Flight From Boston
A JetBlue passenger tried storming the cockpit, grappled with half-a-dozen crew members, and then broke free from plastic zip ties during a flight from Boston to Puerto Rico earlier this week, FBI documents show.
Khalil El Dahr tried to make a phone call toward the end of the flight on Wednesday, Sept. 22, and "became angry about the call's unsuccess," according to an FBI affidavit obtained by the Daily Beast.
Approximately 45 minutes before landing, El Dahr rushed toward the cockpit yelling for someone to shoot him, while holding a flight attendant by his tie -- nearly strangling him, the …
Suspect Nabbed After Drive-By CT Fatal Shooting Of Woman
A man who is allegedly responsible for the shooting death of a grandmother who was cooking dinner when she was fatally shot is in custody in Puerto Rico.
Omar Reyes, age 21, of Hartford is awaiting extradition to Connecticut, where he will be charged with the murder of Sylvia Cordova on Wednesday, June 9, said Lt. Aaron Boisvert of the Hartford Police.
Cordova, age 56, was discovered shot in the neck around 5:11 p.m., when Hartford Police officers responded to the area of 28 Sisson Ave., on a report of citizen callers reporting shots fired.
Upon arrival, officers located several rifl…
