A family has filed a $120-million personal injurylawsuit against an officer who allegedly killed a Pace University football player in the course of a late-night bar fight. The 20-year-old student was allegedly shot by two officers as they removed a crowd of people, mostly Pace students, from a Mount Pleasant…
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Another Car Accident on the Queensboro Off-Ramp Takes a Life
A Queenboro off-ramp has been a big factor, if not the ultimate cause, in the death of a second person in a two-week time period. A mother of two who crashed due to a dangerous off-ramp died in the hospital, according to sources. The 40-year-old woman happens to be the…
Fire Evacuates Cruise Ship
The power of a large cruise ship was knocked out after one of the six generators caught fire a couple weekends ago. Nearly 750 passengers and crew members were forced to evacuate the vessel off the coast of Mexico. The 522 passengers and 226 crew members were evacuated by catamaran…
Murdered Portuguese Journalist Admitted His Lover Was Scaring Him
Carlos Castro, the Portuguese celebrity journalist who was found murdered and mutilated in his Times Square in New York City hotel room told friends that he was being threatened by his handsome companion just days before the murder, police said. Castro, age 65, who was a prominent gay activist and…
Deceased Man Still Responsible for Paying Restitution to Family Over Death of Little Girl
A man convicted of killing an 8-year old girl and seriously maiming her father died in prison recently, but monies from his estate may still be used to pay bodily injury, hospitalization costs and restitution to the family for harming the father and ending the life of the little girl.…
Family files wrongful death suit against city of Oak Ridge Oregon
Back in June, a retired school teacher was making a left hand turn in her 1965 Thunderbird when she was broadsided by a police car that was in pursuit of a speeding vehicle. The 91 year old woman was killed in the crash. Her family has filed a wrongful death…
Police Shoot Man Outside of D.C. Area Daycare in Glendale
Three Prince George’s County police officers shot and killed a man wielding an axe in front of a day care in the Glenn Dale area in what could be a case of wrongful death. Just before 3 p.m. on a Thursday afternoon in early April 2011, police were forced to…