PHILADELPHIA – A heavy equipment operator accused of being high on marijuana when a downtown building collapsed onto a thrift store, killing six people, is in custody after surrendering to face charges in the deaths, police said. Sean Benschop, who has a lengthy police record, surrendered Saturday and faces six…
As reported by the AP, Federal health officials found that the parents of premature babies enrolled in a study of oxygen treatment several years ago weren’t properly informed of the risks: blindness or death. Oxygen has been a standard of treatment for very premature babies. But too much has long…
Michael Eaton had 17 beers plus other drinks before leaving a Gaithersburg, MD tavern on August 21, 2008, according to court records. Forty-five minutes later, he slammed his Range Rover into the back of a Jeep Cherokee at almost 98 mph. Ten-year-old Jazimen Warr, sleeping in the back of the…
A New York man whose morbidly obese, wheelchair-bound wife died last year after she was denied a seat on three different flights home from Hungary sued the airlines on Monday for $6 million. Vilma Soltesz, who was reported to have weighed 425 pounds, suffered from diabetes and had an amputated…
Nobody walks in L.A. – and maybe for good reason. According to a study by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, cited by the Los Angeles Times, pedestrians and bicyclists in Los Angeles are killed at a significantly higher rate than in other states. In Los Angeles, pedestrians accounted…
When you rent a car from a major rental agency, you assume that it has been inspected and is safe to drive. Unfortunately, this may not be the case. Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, both D-Calif., are leading the fight in Congress to require rental agencies to repair vehicles…