A construction worker was struck by a dump truck backing up to deliver its load along Interstate 55 outside of Bloomsdale Missouri July 2, 2012. The news report on the St. Louis Today website states that the man was crossing the lanes at the construction site and looked one way but not the other. There […]
Two people are reported to have been killed in a boating accident on Rend on June 26. The St. Louis Today article on the accident said the man and woman were associated with a recreational boating sales company and were out test driving a speed boat when they collided with another boat. Of the three […]
A woman who originally lived in Kirkwood was injured when she fell from a rock outcropping at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado. Alicia Brauer, 27, was climbing on the rocks during a concert and fell to her death on June 15, 2012. The St. Louis today published an article on the incident that quoted […]
On June 29, 2012 St. Louis Today reported on an accident in Festus Missouri that took the life of a husband and wife. A teenaged driver was in a pickup that was going northbound on Highway 61 and investigators say he ran a red light and collided with a Lexus. Both the passengers in the […]
CLAYTON, Mo. (CN – Courthouse News Service/June, 2012) – A woman claims in court that she was raped, sodomized and tortured for 6 hours by an intruder who broke into her apartment through a faulty sliding glass door that her landlord failed to fix. Jane Doe sued Gundaker Commercial Group, Stratford Commons and affiliates in St. Louis […]
Two people from the St. Louis area lost their lives in an accident in Mississippi on Monday. The St. Louis Today reported that Clifton Collins and Elmo Davis were driving with two other people when the SUV they were in veered off the road and overturned. It is reported that the driver may have dozed […]
The FDA is looking into metal on metal hip replacements due to the number of complaints and lawsuits that have been filed. These replacements tend to have more problems than just those you may expect when having a joint replaced. The FDA says that part of the problem is that metallic debris can come off […]
The Kansas City Star reported on June 11, 2012 that a Missouri judge has approved a $3,000,000 settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit brought in Jackson County. The parents of the victim were the recipients of the reward. Their son who had been diagnosed as schizophrenic was shot at a gas station convenience store by […]
A Massachusetts man suffered second degree burns when the sunscreen he had just put on caught fire. He had applied banana boat sunscreen to his body and then walked over to his outdoor grill that was lit. The sunscreen caught fire at that time and he said he never experienced pain like that in his […]
A Massachusetts teenager has been convicted of vehicular homicide in a case that has put texting while driving on the front page. In February of 2011 he was driving and hit a truck head on killing the driver of that vehicle. The teenager had denied texting at the time he was driving but the police […]
