The sons of a 73-year-old woman who drowned after falling into a suburban Philadelphia, Pa., creek during a party have filed a wrongful death lawsuit. The Bucks County Courier Times reports that Jean Carson of Bensalem was at a Dec. …
The owner of a hotel in Norfolk will pay nearly $11 million to settle a lawsuit over a toddler’s fall from a walkway. Chelsye Clayton’s lawsuit against Pride Group Inc. had sought $50 million in damages. The lawsuit says Clayton’s …
A mother and daughter have been charged with setting a fire that heavily damaged the older woman’s home in Stratford. Police tell the Connecticut Post they became suspicious after finding valuables and all the food from the mother’s refrigerator in …
Since an earthquake rattled central Virginia and the East Coast nearly two years ago, more than 450 aftershocks have been recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey. The latest occurred Wednesday when a magnitude-2.3 quake struck about 6 miles south-southwest of …
Federal workplace safety regulators have proposed fining a Jefferson, Maine, sawmill nearly $80,000 for what they allege are dangerous work conditions. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited N.C. Hunt Inc. for several violations following inspections that began in …
Maryland’s Natural Resources Police have come up with a highly visible way of promoting boater safety. The agency has declared Friday “Wear Your Life Jacket to Work Day.” Officers are urging people to join them in wearing personal flotation devices …
The administrator of a fund created to help victims of the Boston Marathon bombings has released final guidelines for distributing the money. The document released Wednesday gives top priority to the families of those who died, as well as double …
Federal investigators say an aging part fractured and caused a vintage plane to crash into the ocean off Portland Head Light last summer, killing the doctor piloting the aircraft. The National Transportation Safety Board says in its report released earlier …
A man who sued his half brother and lost after he was paralyzed doing a flip from a trampoline into a 2-foot wading pool is entitled to a new trial, the highest court in Massachusetts ruled Wednesday. Cleber Coleta Dos …
A central New York man accused of killing his son to collect $700,000 in life insurance has been indicted on new charges connected to the will that the victim wrote just hours before he died. Karl Karlsen, 53, of Romulus …
