The Montana Supreme Court unanimously rejected an appeal on Thursday by the maker of Louisville Slugger baseball bats of a jury’s verdict that held the company liable in the death of a player struck by a ball during a 2003 game. In upholding the October 2009 verdict that awarded $850,000 to the parents of Brandon [...]
Colorado state Senator Suzanne Williams should have been charged with criminally negligent homicide, a felony, in a head-on car crash last December that killed a pregnant woman, according to a Department of Safety report on the accident that was obtained by the Amarillo Globe-News. The report, which the Globe-News obtained via the Texas Open Records [...]
A building design used in thousands of warehouses, schools, and big-box stores across the U.S. is vulnerable to catastrophic damage in tornadoes and similar high-wind weather conditions, according to engineers who studied the aftermath of the tornado that occurred in Joplin, Missouri, on May 22. The engineers delivered their conclusions after examining the ruins of [...]
Closing arguments are expected today in the criminal trial of Xcel Energy over the deaths of five Colorado hydroelectric plant workers, Donald Dejaynes, 43, Dupree Holt, 37, James St. Peters, 52, Gary Foster, 48, and Anthony Aguirre, 18. The men died of smoke inhalation when a fire trapped them inside a water tunnel at the [...]
A tanker truck accident outside Denver last Thursday night may have had environmental consequences. The Associated Press via The Republic provides a brief summary: Denver Water officials are monitoring the damage from a tanker truck accident that injured the two people in the truck and dumped about 7,000 gallons of gas and diesel in creeks flowing into [...]
This past Monday, Ruben Narcisse, a 19-year-old freshman linebacker for the University of Wyoming, died in a tragic auto accident, according to the Colorado State Patrol in a report by The Associated Press. Usually, when you hear about a football player suffering from a severe or fatal injury, the first thing that comes to mind is [...]
Product recalls are fairly common actually, and 2010 seems to be plagued by recalls. Earlier this month, we talked about a fatal car accident in Vegas believed to be caused by Toyota’s faulty floor mats — which were the subject of a recall in Europe at the time of the accident. Yesterday, we discussed the [...]
An unusual traffic law enacted in Black Hawk, Colorado is stirring up quite a fuss among cycling groups. P. Solomon Banda, who covers crime and the courts for The Associated Press, explains: The gambling town of Black Hawk has prohibited touring bicyclists from pedaling while in town, becoming what’s thought by cycling advocates to be the [...]
Jim Leyritz is a name well known to Baseball fans. He retired ten years ago, after playing in the Major Leagues for six different teams. According to Sophia Santana at the Sun Sentinel, Leyritz’s time with the New York Yankees and other teams netted him about $10 million over the course of his career. Leyritz was [...]
If you’re fond of alfalfa sprouts, you should take a moment to read this. As of May 21, there’s been a recall of all alfalfa sprouts produced by California-based company, Caldwell Fresh Foods. To the company’s credit, the recall is voluntary, but it affects all of its sprouts, which include those marketed under the brands [...]
