Fatal auto accidents kill more than 92 people every day across America. The statistics are just as startling in many states. In 2009, auto accidents resulted in the deaths of 1,256 people in Pennsylvania, 1,021 in Ohio and 356 in West Virginia. Those figures are less than they were in 2005. But during the same four-year period, the financial impact… (more…)
We Asked Are Background Checking Companies Subject to Lawsuits? SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A clerical error landed Kathleen Casey on the streets. Out of work two years, her unemployment benefits exhausted, in danger of losing her apartment, Casey applied for a job in the pharmacy of a Boston drugstore. She was offered $11 an hour. All she had to do… (more…)
Child sexual abuse ranks among the most horrific of all crimes. When allegations of child sexual assault surfaced at Penn State University, many in Pennsylvania were shocked. Jerry Sandusky, an once revered assistant football coach, was charged with abusing eight boys over a 15-year time period. Sandusky denied the charges, but said he did shower with the boys. While Sandusky… (more…)
The parents of a Maryland teen who died earlier this year during wisdom tooth surgery have sued the oral surgeon and the anesthetist for medical malpractice. Jenny Olenick, a 17-year-old junior at Marriotts Ridge High School in Woodstock, Md., died in April from complications during the outpatient procedure performed on 5 million Americans each year. “It’s so hard,” Cathy Garger,… (more…)
A recent survey by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration showed that, despite increased legislation forbidding it, texting while driving Click Here is on the rise. The survey estimated that roughly 1 in every 100 drivers on the road at a given moment was texting, e-mailing, surfing the web or using some other feature of their portable handheld devices in… (more…)
By: Laura Kelly Last Monday, a 27-year-old man, Seth Atkinson Jr., was killed at a road side construction site inside the gated subdivision at Landings Way South in Savannah. 66-year-old, Carmencita Limosnero, hit four workers and a dump truck that was in the roadway and a backhoe tractor located in the median of the road, according to the news report.… (more…)
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – A new accuser against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky said Sandusky sexually abused him “over 100 times” as a child. The handwritten statement by a man, now 29, identified only as “John Doe A” accompanied a lawsuit filed on Wednesday in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court against Sandusky, Penn State University and The Second Mile,… (more…)
Head-on collisions are among the most dangerous and life-threatening types of accidents. In 2009, there were 505 people killed in head-on collisions in Texas, according to car accident statistics detailed by the Texas Department of Transportation. When two cars are moving in opposite directions and collide head-on, significant energy is transferred from the vehicles to the occupants’ bodies. In many… (more…)
Nearly anyone who heads out for a walk on a regular basis likely keeps an eye out for drivers who may be distracted or operating recklessly. If you’re on foot in November, your risk of getting killed is far greater than at other times of the year, according to a study released by two Carnegie Mellon University researchers. The researchers… (more…)
By JIM DANKO Two men working in a 40-foot high bucket died on Dec. 1 in Atlanta after the lift they were using fell over, according to news reports. The victims of the construction accident were identified as Rigoberto Lopez, 29, of Marietta, and Karlos Turner, 42, of Dallas, who were working on Dallas Street when the piece of heavy… (more…)
