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Days after a Dreamliner jet caught fire in Boston, stories of more Dreamliner mishaps are emerging.

Yet U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is still insisting that these planes are safe, saying that he would have “absolutely no reservations of boarding one of these planes and taking a flight.”

One day after a lithium ion battery caught fire in a Dreamliner jet parked at Logan International Airport, another Dreamliner was delayed at Logan International Airport after a fuel leak.

Toyota has been slapped with a huge fine for delaying its June Lexus recall, reports USA Today.

The fine is a staggering $17.35 million, the largest allowable under the law. It stems from charges by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the agency charged with maintaining driver safety.

The fine is the fourth that Toyota has had to pay in the past three years, since the unintended acceleration problem came to light.

The current fine involves the June recall of 154,000 Lexus RX crossovers for unintended acceleration. The vehicles were either accelerating without a driver's foot on the gas pedal, or failed to slow down when a driver hit the brakes.

The dangers linked to the tainted injections from a Framingham pharmacy have only gotten worse. Now, victims are coming forward with abscesses at the injection spot, reports The Boston Herald.

These abscesses were previously undetected and are found deep in the tissue where the shots were administered, in the patient's spines. This latest discovery is scaring health officials as the drug liability for the New England Compounding Center could be even greater than initially anticipated.

How safe are energy drinks? The popular 5-Hour Energy drink could be hazardous, even deadly, reports WGGB News.

It's very popular with college students and as the dangers of the energy supplement are starting to be exposed, many students in and around the Boston area should start thinking twice before consuming the drink.

The Food and Drug Administration is reportedly investigating 92 complaints that have emerged since 2009.

We've talked before on this blog about the claim of negligent hiring. We've also talked about the Framingham pharmacy and the meningitis outbreak.

But we've never talked about the two together.

First off, we'd like to make it clear that the New England Compounding Center (NECC) is not being sued for negligent hiring or negligent supervision of employees. At least not that we're aware of.

However, such a claim might not be far off, especially now that Massachusetts regulators have come down on the NECC and ordered all of its pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to stop working.

A South Grafton family has filed a lawsuit against Trader Joe's after their four-year-old son was stricken with salmonella, reports Patch.

The salmonella case stems from a nationwide recall of peanut butter. Last week, the Center for Disease Control issued an advisory on the recall by Sunland Inc. of their peanut butter, sold in stores across the nation, including Target, Walmart and Whole Foods.

These peanut butter products are sold under many names, including Earth Balance and Archer Farms (at Target).

A pharmacy in Framingham is under scrutiny as more people have been infected with meningitis after receiving steroid injections for back pain.

The meningitis outbreak has been linked to the New England Compounding Center (NECC) in Framingham, reports The Boston Globe.

It's been a bad week for automobile recalls.

Nissan announced this week it's recalling three models. According to MSN Autos, some Nissan Pathfinder, Xterra and Frontier models are being recalled for faulty front wheel hubs which have the potential to crack. This could potentially lead to a loss of steering control.

What is it with the steering wheel defects this week? Earlier, we reported that Honda was recalling some of its Accords for issues involving leaky steering wheel fluid.

Recall news! Honda has announced that it will be recalling 600,000 Accords, The Associated Press reports.

The issue is the Accord's power steering hose, which has the potential to leak fluid. The leakage of fluid is a fire hazard, according to the AP.

Davy Crockett, is immortalized by song and always popularly portrayed with his signature 'coonskin cap. It was every boys' dream back in "the day" to be as brave and rugged as Crockett, with sales of BB guns and caps driving the economy (not really, but whatever).

Now it seems like an East Bridgewater woman was fixing to make herself a classic coonskin cap by capping a raccoon. Kerrilee Zimmerman was aimin' to shoot the varmint, when she done tripped and shot herself in the chest, according to the Boston Globe.

Zimmerman was seriously injured and taken to Cape Cod Hospital, according to the Globe. The question is whether she would have any claim against the pellet gun maker for her injury.