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Search results for "Decatur" ...
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Blowout. How the tire problem turned into a crisis for Firestone and Ford. Lack of a database masked the pattern that led to yesterday's big recall. The heat and the pressure.
According to the article, "Yesterday, ine the face of a federal investigation into 46 deaths and more than 300 incidents involving Firestone tires that allegedly shredded on the highway, Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. said it would recall more than 6.5 million tires, the majority of them mounted as original equipment on Ford Motor Co. Explorers and other Ford light trucks. The Firestone brands affected are certain 15-inch Radial ATX and Radial ATX II tires produced in North America and certain Wilderness AT tires with product code P235/75R15 that were manufactured at Firestone's Decatur, Ill. plant."
Tags: Firestone; Ford; tires; blowouts; Ford Motor Company; Ford Explorers; Decatur; IL; deaths; danger; recall
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Fire Prevention 101
"'Fire Prevention 101' revealed that student housing on college campuses throughout Illinois is filled with fire hazards and fire code violations that could result in deadly fires. Our investigation suggested that lax enforcement of fire codes could make Illinois the site of the next fatal campus fire, and just one month after our story aired, a student died in a fraternity house fire at Milliken University in Decatur, Illinois."
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; fire hazard; fire codes; colleges; students; safety
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Herald & Review (Decatur, Ill.) publishes a comprehensive report on the possible causes and implications of that area's relatively high infant mortality rate, Nov. 8, 1989.
Tags: IL Cole Ragsdale
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No title (id: 3137)
WAND-TV (Decatur, Ill.) examines possibly illegal stock sales report alleges the company misstated its financial picture and questions the stock sales activities of the company president; poor regulation of stock sales by the state, March 1981. (script only)
Tags: None
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No title (id: 2553)
Denton Record-Chronicle discovers incidents of sexual misconduct, cronyism and favoritism, misuse of city property and incompetence by the former Decatur police chief, October 1983.
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No title (id: 1217)
Herald & Review (Decatur, Ill.) looks at county court system of picking jurors and finds a systematic exclusion of blacks from the criminal justice system, July 7-12, 1985.
Tags: IL