If you are running errands in North Carolina or elsewhere in the South this summer, you should never make the mistake of leaving your child in the car alone. Temperatures in North Carolina soared above 100 degrees in August 2016, and that can be deadly…
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), there are over 5 million auto accidents in the United States each year. More than 1.5 million of those crashes result in injuries. Statistics show that one in every four drivers will be in a car…
State and local law enforcement in North Carolina arrested 1,729 suspected impaired drivers during the annual Governor’s Highway Safety Program’s Booze It & Lose It – Operation Firecracker enforcement campaign of June 24 through July 4. At least 1,600 were suspected drunk drivers, and 125 were…
The son of a Kansas state legislator died last weekend while riding a 168-foot high water slide at Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City. The water slide allows riders to reach speeds of up to 70 MPH. While it is not known yet if the boy was killed…
Intubation and anesthesia errors are a form of medical malpractice and can result in significant harm or even death. An anesthesiologist is a trained medical professional tasked with administering safe and effective drugs to patients before they undergo a serious medical procedure. Many people are…
A 24 year old musician from St. Helena Island, South Carolina was on his way home from a show and was killed by an allegedly impaired driver who was going the wrong way on the road. The man died of blunt force trauma at the…
The recent death of a 10-year-old boy at a Kansas water park has reignited concerns over the lack of government oversight by any federal agency. The young victim, who was the son of a Kansas state senator, was at the Schlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas…
The North Carolina House earlier this summer passed a bill that would increase drunk boating penalties to the same as drunk driving. The bill is being called Sheyenne’s Law, which is named after a 17 year old girl who was killed in 2015 by a…
A Lake County OH Common Pleas Court judge refused last week to dismiss a Wickliffe OH hotel from a $5 million drowning lawsuit. Reginald Brown, a 23 year-old from Detroit, died in February 2014 while swimming at a Quality Inn pool in Wickliffe. His family…
Five students in North Carolina were hurt in 2015 by motorists who passed stopped school buses, and 13 North Carolina students have died due to drivers passing school buses since 1999. Those facts are the major reasons that starting Jan. 1, 2017, all North Carolina school…
A lawsuit against World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. (WWE) was filed earlier this week, with more than 50 plaintiffs blaming the organization for neurological injuries they suffered caused by performing in the WWE’s wrestling rings. The lawsuit also accuses the WWE, and its founder Vince McMahon,…
Fayetteville, North Carolina police have filed criminal charges against a man that caused an accident that left five people dead on Cliffdale Road in Fayetteville. A total of eight people were involved in the three car accident on July 1. The driver of a 2000…