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The Lee County Sheriff's Department is now working with the Albany Crime stoppers. The Lee County Sheriff's Department asked to join the Albany Crime-stoppers program. The Sheriff's Department believesMore >>
The Lee County Sheriff's Department is now working with the Albany Crime stoppers. The Lee County Sheriff's Department asked to join the Albany Crime-stoppers program. The Sheriff's Department believes it will be a helpful tool in closing some cases.
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How would you save your pets life if a tornado touched down here in South Georgia? Tuesday's tornado ripped through Oklahoma taking 24 lives, and today families are still searching for their belongingsMore >>
How would you save your pets life if a tornado touched down here in South Georgia? Tuesday's tornado ripped through Oklahoma taking 24 lives, and today families are still searching for their belongings and pets that were lost during the storm More >>
Wednesday, May 22 2013 6:43 PM EDT2013-05-22 22:43:09 GMT
Some princesses and super heroes made a stop in Albany Wednesday to visit young patients at Phoebe Putney Memorial hospital. Spiderman, Ariel and a few others made rounds to the children on the pediatricMore >>
Some princesses and super heroes made a stop in Albany Wednesday to visit young patients at Phoebe Putney Memorial hospital. More >>
Wednesday, May 22 2013 6:40 PM EDT2013-05-22 22:40:51 GMT
Students and teachers at a south Georgia school dedicated a special spot to a little girl killed in a school bus crash two weeks ago. Several other Pataula Charter Academy students were injured in thatMore >>
Students and teachers at Pataula Charter Academy dedicated a park bench on the playground of the school where 10-year-old Jordyn Doughtie was a student.More >>
Wednesday, May 22 2013 6:31 PM EDT2013-05-22 22:31:56 GMT
Jurors heard closing arguments Wednesday afternoon in the aggravated assault trial of three South Georgia men charged with beating a man in the parking lot of a northwest Albany club. Prosecutors sayMore >>
Prosecutors say three men beat a man in an Albany club parking lot so fiercely they fractured his skull.More >>
December 13, 2007 Kristen Dahlgren, NBC News
For millions of parents, it may seem like frightening news. Drug maker Merck recalling a million doses of a vaccine called Hib, a shot given to children under five to protect from meningitis and pneumonia.
But the Centers for Disease Control was quick to assure parents it was not a health crisis, just a precaution.
Merck voluntarily recalled the vaccines after the sterility of its Pennsylvania manufacturing plant came into question.
The company said it has not found any contamination in the vaccines and no child has shown symptoms.
Parents are being urged to watch for a rash or bumps near the injection site but after a week of no symptoms children are thought to be in the clear.
The questionable vaccines were shipped after April of this year and doctors are now being notified to return all their supplies, something the CDC says will cause some inconvenience but is not expected to put any children at risk.
Concerned parents are being urged to contact their doctors with any questions. Merck says none of its other medications were affected. It is shutting down its production of the hib vaccine for the next nine months which may ultimately cause some shortages.
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