Here in new england
LAKEVILLE � Ocean Spray on Friday expanded its ongoing recall of some of its Craisins dried cranberry products to include five more �Best By� code dates, because the packages could contain very small metal fragments. The recall involves 5-ounce, 10-ounce and 48-ounce packages of the sweetened, dried cranberries that were sold in the western United States. The hair-like metal fragments are unlikely to cause injury if swallowed, Ocean Spray said.
The recall was originally announced on Nov. 25 and involved 17 �Best By� code dates. Ocean Spray said it has yet to receive any consumer complaints of metal fragments. No injuries or adverse effects have been reported so far, the company said.
BRIDGEWATER � Authorities say a 71-year-old Bridgewater woman suffered severe facial injuries during an attack by a relative�s pit bull that was so vicious that a veterinarian later recovered pieces of human flesh from the animal�s stomach. Police say Normanda Torres was attacked unprovoked by the 50-pound dog that belonged to her grandson as she stood at the kitchen sink late Thursday morning. She was flown to a Boston hospital for surgery. Hospital staff said she is recovering. Dogs involved in biting incidents are usually quarantined for 10 days, but doctors at the hospital requested that the roughly-year-old animal be euthanized immediately to recover the woman�s flesh.
HARTFORD � Connecticut�s largest utility failed to put enough repair crews in place before a rare October snowstorm spawned record-breaking power outages affecting more than 850,000 homes and businesses, causing a delay in efforts to restore electricity, according to a consultant�s report released Friday. The report Connecticut Light & Power Co. was not prepared for a storm as damaging as the one on Oct. 29.
About two-thirds of CL&P�s 1.2 million Connecticut customers lost power, but the report says the company�s emergency response plan for major storms relies on a worst-case scenario of only 100,000 or more outages, less than 10 percent of its customers.
PLYMOUTH� The owners of a Plymouth furniture warehouse want to know the origin of a chunk of metal that apparently plunged through the roof of their building.
No one was hurt when the six-inch-long, cylindrical piece of metal weighing about five pounds came through the roof over a storage closet either late Wednesday or Thursday.
Federal Aviation Administration inspectors determined that the piece of metal, broken at both ends, was not an airplane part, and could not say whether it fell from a plane.
An FAA spokeswoman says the chunk likely came from a piece of heavy machinery, possibly a wood chipper. That still doesn�t explain how it came crashing through the roof.
Police are also stumped.
� The Associated Press