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A UPS truck slammed into two other vehicles on Oct. 31 in North Carolina, seriously injuring one woman, WBTV reported. The incident occurred in the eastbound lane of I-40 in Burke County around mile marker 110 at around 5 p.m. According to the North Carolina Highway Patrol, the UPS truck slammed… Read more
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A worker suffered a severe injury on a Silver Spring, Maryland, construction site when a crane ran over his leg, WJLA reported. The accident occurred around 11:30 a.m. on Dec. 6 on a site for the new Purple Line, a light-rail project of the Maryland Transportation Administration to allow commuters… Read more
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A home explosion in Union County, Tennessee, left a 68-year-old man with severe burns, WBIR reported. The incident happened on the 3000 block of Hickory Valley Road sometime before 1:30 p.m. Daniel Rice, the Paulette fire chief, said the Paulette Volunteer Fire Department believes a propane heater… Read more
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Three residents and a firefighter were injured in a fire that destroyed a two-story duplex in Washington, D.C., in the early hours of Jan. 5, WTOP reported. One victim’s injuries were potentially life-threatening, according to D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services spokesperson Vito Maggiolo. Two… Read more
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In the face of a disaster, we often consider long-term impacts to the economy and to the environment. But in that consideration, we may forget how these natural disasters affect the people displaced by them.
Roughly 10,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes after the Edenville dam… Read more
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A semi crossed into the wrong lane, killing four and injuring two. A 15-year-old child died of his injuries following the crash.
A tractor trailer traveling eastbound on the Ohio Turnpike on May 27 collided with two vehicles when the truck veered into the westbound lane. The semi crashed into a… Read more
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Tricia Norman, mother of 12-year-old Rebecca Sedwick who committed
suicide in September, announced today with her attorney Matt Morgan that
she would be pursuing wrongful death lawsuits against those responsible
for her daughter’s death.
During a press conference at Morgan & Morgan’s Orlando… Read more
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A Nashville, Tennessee, WeGo public transit bus hit and killed a pedestrian in the Gulch neighborhood Oct. 10, the Tennessean reported. The incident occurred just before 8:30 a.m. on the 600 block of Eighth Avenue S. The victim, 54-year-old Michael Owens, was walking northbound on the sidewalk as… Read more
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Heavy morning fog and icy road conditions sent a mail delivery tractor-trailer skidding out of control, resulting in a crash with a tour bus, putting over two dozen people in the hospital, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. The incident occurred at about 4:37 a.m. the morning of Nov. 17 in the… Read more
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An immigration lawyer for Jacksonville Area Legal Aid (JALA), Kara
Roberts was facing a lay off due to state budget cuts. JALA was burdened
with a $30,000 deficit and although Ms. Roberts’ fundraising efforts
raised some money, the law firm for low-income individuals was
struggling to keep her… Read more
