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Woman blames poor lighting for fall, injury at Smoothie King Center

NEW ORLEANS – A woman claims that she was injured when she fell at the Smoothie King Center. Irene David filed a lawsuit Jan. 26 against iSMG, SMG/LMI LLC, SMG Holdings Inc, Louisiana Stadium and Exposition District and Hastings, Clayton & Tucker Inc, doing business as Stiletto Entertainment in Orleans Parish Civil District Court alleging

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Coast Guard Calls Off Search for 6 Fishermen on Crab Boat

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The search has been called off for the six veteran fishermen aboard a crabbing boat missing in the icy, turbulent Bering Sea. The fishing vessel Destination went missing early Saturday after an emergency signal from a radio beacon registered to the ship. The signal originated from 2 miles off St. George, an

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BMW agrees to settle vehicle water damage suit for up to $478 million

German automaker BMW AG has agreed to pay up to $477.7 million to settle a class-action lawsuit covering about 318,000 U.S. luxury car owners who may have suffered water damage harming electrical components in vehicle trunks. According to settlement documents filed in U.S. District Court in New York last week, the settlement covers owners of 2004-2010

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Report: Former Lions Pro Bowl RB Mel Farr had Stage 3 CTE

Former Detroit Lions running back Mel Farr, a first-round pick and two-time Pro Bowler, had Stage 3 chronic chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) at the time of his 2015 death, ESPN’s Outside the Lines reported Monday. CTE is a progressive degenerative brain disease that can only be detected after someone has died. It has links to aggression, depression, memory

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Orange Unified to pay $10 million to settle lawsuit over 2014 bus crash

The Orange Unified School District has reached a $10 million settlement with the families of five children injured in a 2014 school bus crash in Anahim Hills, a law firm announced Tuesday. Several children were seriously injured when bus driver Gerald Rupple passed out and smashed the coach into a tree while driving 11 children

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Olympia motorcyclist ‘held on for dear life’ in crazy crash captured on helmet cam

An Olympia motorcyclist who rode on top of a car’s trunk after a freeway crash in Tumwater has shared helmet camera footage that shows a first-person view of his brush with death. The crash occurred about 2:45 p.m. Jan. 16 on Interstate 5. Seth Dieckman, 35, had just merged onto the freeway at Trosper Road

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Hear 911 call: Family sues assisted-living facility after woman dies of hypothermia

KENT COUNTY, MI – The family of an 85-year-old woman who was found dead outside an assisted-living facility has filed a lawsuit against Crystal Springs. Kathryn Brackett died of hypothermia outside the facility at 1175 68th St. SE on Oct. 27. She left the home around 12:30 a.m. and wasn’t found until 5 a.m. It

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