Wheelchair Blog

BANNED scooter users today accused Metro bosses of robbing them of their freedom.

When Westside Express Service commuter rail pulls out of the station in November, there will be room in the self-powered railcar for 74 people in seats, two wheelchairs, two hanging bicycles, the crew and 139 standees.

Medicare officials 2006 statements that they had reduced the number of fraudulent and improper claims were misleading, a draft report says.

For Wisconsin’s economy to stay viable, it needs a strong Milwaukee, and two developments last week suggest better times for the state’s largest city. The first good news came from Johnson Controls, which announced it will research the commercial viability of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles under an $8.2 million federal grant. Plug-in hybrids, or PHEVs, have a battery that can be recharged …

Thieves and vandals are bleeding hospitals of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

RALEIGH — Richard McKinnon’s tragic story is exactly what the N.C. Taser Safety Project wants to prevent — an accidental death after the use of an electronic stun gun.

Think you’ve got problems finding a cab that will actually stop? Try it while in a wheelchair.

Think it’s hard finding a cab? Just try it in a wheelchair

Mike Styk, the ailing 87-year-old New Bedford man whose motorized wheelchair went missing 10 days ago, raised his arms and cheered with glee after the chair was returned undamaged to the Quick Pic where it was last seen.

Here are a selection of brief news items from this week’s paper edition, and possibly a few news briefs that didn’t make it in the paper.