The St. Louis Post Dispatch has reported that Hai Minh Pham has been sentenced to five years imprisonment for causing the crash that took the life of John Casalone, aged 51, in October of last year. The defendant was at a birthday party for a coworker that night and entered the wrong lane of Interstate […]
Peg Perego USA and the U.S Consumer Product Safety Commission recently announced that Peg Perego is recalling about 223,000 baby strollers made between January 2004 and September 2007 because of the threat of entrapment and strangulation. A 6-month-old boy fromTarzana,California, died of strangulation after his head was trapped between the seat and the tray of one of […]
The St. Louis Post Dispatch has reported that a worker at the ConAgra plant in Alton, Missouri has died from injuries suffered at the plant after falling from a lift that was moving between floors. The company is conducting an internal investigation and OSHA will also be looking into the incident. OSHA has six months […]
General Electric is recalling about 1.3 million dishwashers after electrical failures sparked fires that caused “extensive” property damage. The units were sold from March 2006 to August 2009 under brand names including GE Adora, GE Eterna, GE Profile and Hotpoint for as much as $850, the agency said in a statement. It said seven fires […]
A report of a man driving a pick-up truck erratically was quickly followed by a multi-vehicle accident on Highway 370 on August 1, 2012. The pick-up was involved in a minor accident but before police could get to the scene three vehicles behind the truck were involved in a second accident. The second accident resulted […]
Chesterfield police have identified an 18 year old driver who was killed when his car hit two vehicles, including a bus, while going the wrong way on Interstate 64 in Chesterfield. The bus driver and a passenger were injured and the driver of the other car was seriously, but not critically, injured according to the […]
The murder trial of Paul White, accused in the 2007 death of Insurance agent Robert Eidman, began on July 31, 2012 and there is some confusion on who actually fired the gun responsible for Eidman’s death. White’s attorney claims his accomplice, Cleo Hines, was the shooter. The prosecutor’s office found DNA evidence at the scene […]
MED-MAL CAPS RULED UNCONSTITUTIONAL On Tuesday, July 31, 2012, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that caps on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases violate the Right to Trial by Jury in the Missouri Constitution. The court explicitly overruled the precedent set in the 1993 Adams v. Children’s Mercy Hospital opinion (848 S.W.2d 535). The court […]
Last month US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced a new national strategy for ending “distracted driving”. LaHood has not yet called to ban all mobile device use in automobiles like the National Transportation Safety Board but his strategy does encourage the 11 states that do not have distracted driving laws to do so. Missouri is […]
Jeffrey Allen, a central Illinois man, has been convicted and sentenced for his sixth DUI. He could spend up to 14 years in jail as a result of this latest conviction. His blood alcohol limit was over .19 – more than twice the legal limit in Illinois. Allen was involved in an accident in May […]
