A Collinsville man who had a problem with his motorcycle was struck and killed by a pick-up truck on the evening of September 4, 2012. The man was turning left at an intersection when his motorcycle stalled and he was hit by the oncoming truck while trying to walk the vehicle out of the way. […]
A worker for an outside contractor was found dead August 28, 2012 at a sewer facility on Highway 94 in St. Charles City. According to reports he likely died sometime early in the afternoon. His foreman had called officials around noon after he did not respond to calls after having gone underground around 11 AM. […]
A man found in a ravine near Interstate 70 in Warrenton appears to have accidently drowned. Andrew Eli, 22, was out with friends at a fast food restaurant when he went to the men’s room and did not return to the group. His friends eventually called his family and his uncle and two cousins went […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
According to the AP, home gas explosions could be less dangerous or even possibly prevented with the installation of a $15 valve that cuts off leaking gas. Yet nearly 90 percent of the nation’s gas service lines aren’t fitted with the valves. Despite persistent government recommendations, the gas industry has argued that they are unreliable […]
