SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) – A 6-year old boy is in critical condition after he was hit by an SUV in Salt Lake. Police say the boy was walking his bike across the street. His mother was roller blading at his side. That’s when the dark colored SUV hit the boy and knocked [...]
By Kare11.com LAKEVILLE, Minn. — At least one person has died in a multi-vehicle accident involving a bee truck on Interstate 35 late Monday morning. The crash happened around 11:30 a.m. Monday on northbound I-35 near County Road 70 in Lakeville. St. Patrol Lt. Eric Roeske told KARE 11 one person is confirmed dead, while one [...]
By Chavon Sutton, CNNMoney.com staff writer NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Conair Corp. is recalling 291,000 BabylissPro model hair dryers because they pose a laceration risk, a government agency said Friday. Conair (CNGA) disclosed 16 reports of the fan breaking, causing the plastic shell to shatter, as well as reports of hair dryers sparking [...]
By Oskar Garcia (AP) LAS VEGAS — A jury in Las Vegas ordered two drug companies to pay a combined $500 million in punitive damages in the first of hundreds of civil cases stemming from a hepatitis C outbreak two years ago. The Clark County District Court jury on Friday ordered Teva Parenteral [...]
PORTLAND, Ore. (CBS) – Two people were killed and three others injured when a city bus ran over a group of pedestrians in Portland, Oregon late Saturday night. Police say the Tri-Met bus was turning left onto a street when it hit the people crossing the street. Officers found several people trapped beneath [...]
By Wytv.com A Pennsylvania Department of Transportation worker was killed in an accident in Lawrence County Thursday. Pulaski Township police said PennDot crews were paving State Route 551 north of State Route 422 when 42-year-old Richard Bentel, a Transportation Equipment Operator, fell off a grading machine and was crushed to death. Bentel was [...]
April 21, 2010 By Reuters.com (Reuters) – Eleven workers were missing and 17 injured in an explosion at a Transocean oil drilling rig off Louisiana, and crews were fighting the fire 16 hours later, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Wednesday. An estimated 126 people were aboard the Deepwater Horizon at the time of [...]
By Nick Divito, Courthouse News Service LAS VEGAS (CN) – Clark County’s child welfare system shows “deliberate indifference to the health and safety of the children it is obligated to protect,” 13 foster kids say in a federal class action. The National Center for Youth Law’s 80-page complaint demands sweeping changes in the county’s [...]
By Donna Willis, www.nbc4i.com COLUMBUS, Ohio—Three people were injured Tuesday morning when a truck pumping concrete collapsed at the old City Center construction site. Medics were called to the area of East Town and South 3rd streets, where crews from Igel Construction were working, at about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday. A truck pumping concrete [...]
A Waltham, Mass. man is facing 9 felony charges after being involved in a fatal golf cart accident on September 9, 2009. According to prosecutors, Andrew Morrissey was drunk when he drove his golf cart into a minvan on an Albany highway. The cart driven by Morrissey had 3 passengers; Robin Clohecy, Jared Frontiero [...]
