A brave little Blount County boy, who loved more than anything spending time with his identical twin, lost his fight for life at 6:31 a.m. Monday after contracting E. coli and suffering the after-effects of the disease.

 His heart just gave out. 

Joseph Coning, 8, and his twin, Jesse, were looking forward to a family vacation on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

The kitchen tap is dirtier and carries more harmful bugs than the toilet handle in millions of homes, research has found. And 80 per cent of the cloths used to wipe down kitchen surfaces were found to contain a dangerous mix of bacteria.

A Fresno County judge will decide soon whether The Big Fresno Fair should be held liable for the illness a 2-year-old Fresno girl suffered after visiting the fair's petting zoo nearly four years ago.

A Tutong factory was yesterday forced to shut down operations after an inspection by Tutong Health Services Department personnel led to the detection of E.coli in its products on the factory line.