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Colorado Ski Resort Sued After Fatal Chairlift Fall

The family of a Texas woman who died after falling from a chairlift at a small Colorado ski resort as she was riding up with her two young daughters filed a wrongful death lawsuit Friday. William Huber, the girls’ father, …

Police Shooting Settlements Remove Gamble of Jury Awards

The $1.5 million awarded this week to the parents of Michael Brown is the latest of several large settlements involving black suspects who were killed by police, but it’s far from the largest. A federal judge in St. Louis on …

Jury finds Virginia Tech Negligent in ’07 Shootings

A jury found Virginia Tech negligent on Wednesday for delaying a campus warning of the first shootings in a 2007 campus massacre that left 33 dead. Jurors returned the verdict in a wrongful death civil suit brought by the parents …