The bar that sold alcohol to Charles Queer Jr. in the early morning hours of March 27 should have stopped serving him when he became noticeably intoxicated, according to allegations in a lawsuit filed this week. Queer is accused of killing 17-year-old Patricia “Tricia” Powell in a car accident about 2:15 a.m. after leaving KC’s […]
Front-seat passengers in some small sport utility vehicles may not be as well protected as drivers in certain types of crashes, according to recent tests of seven vehicles by the nonprofit Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The tests, known as small overlap frontal tests, were similar to the kind that the institute conducts by directing
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An Everett-based landscaping company has pleaded guilty to criminal charges in connection with the death of a 19-year-old worker who was killed in a bark-blower truck in 2014. Killed was Bradley Hogue, of Lake Stevens, who was working a summer job with Pacific Topsoils. A representative of Pacific Topsoils entered the plea Monday morning during
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FENTON, MI – Two nursing care facilities in Fenton are being sued as part of an investigation into potential neglect and abuse. The Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service – a state-appointed group assigned to investigate allegations of abuse and neglect against people with disabilities — filed federal lawsuits against Crestmont Nursing Care Center, Inc. and
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A truck driver and the trucking company he worked for were indicted by a grand jury in connection with a 2015 crash that killed five Georgia nursing students, according to court records and local media. Driver John Wayne Johnson and Mississippi-based trucking company, Total Transportation, were indicted on five counts each of first-degree homicide by
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St. Joseph Hospital and a New Hampshire nursing home are being sued for the alleged wrongful death of an 87-year-old veteran who died five years ago after developing pneumonia. Byam “Bing” Whitney Jr. of Nashua died in 2011 from sepsis caused by bedsores, according to court documents on file at Hillsborough County Superior Court in
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The 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee that rolled backward down a driveway and killed the actor Anton Yelchin early Sunday was a model that Fiat Chrysler has recalled for a gearshift issue that has confused drivers, leading them to accidentally leave the car in neutral when they think it is safely in park. Los Angeles Police
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The family of an international student killed when a Ride the Ducks tourist vehicle crashed into a charter bus on the Aurora Bridge last year has sued over the deadly collision. Japanese national Mami Sato’s lawsuit names as defendants Ride the Ducks of Seattle, and its Atlanta-based licensee, Ride the Ducks International, which refurbished and
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A west Alabama jury has awarded $5.5 million to relatives of a man who died when a crane toppled over in 2012. Michael Singley, 47 of Linden, was killed when the crane he was operating turned over in July 2012 in Holt. His family filed a wrongful death lawsuit claiming Southeastern Crane Inspections LLC had
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Twenty students and a bus driver were injured in a rear-end collision involving two school buses in Renton, a Renton Fire Department spokesman said. The students suffered minor to moderate injuries in the crash near Martin Luther King Jr. Way South and Southwest Sunset Boulevard. Renton School District spokesman Randy Matheson said 11 students were
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