Wrongful-death lawsuit filed in Indiana mining accident (WAVY 10)
Fri, 09 May 2008 12:08:53 GMT
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - The family of a man who plunged more than 500 feet in a coal mine's air shaft has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against a company he helped found that was building the shaft.

Wrongful-death lawsuit filed in Indiana mining accident (WRIC 8 News Richmond)
Fri, 09 May 2008 12:04:53 GMT
Associated Press - May 9, 2008 7:55 AM ET EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - The family of a man who plunged more than 500 feet in a coal mine's air shaft has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against a...

Judge ignores testimony exonerating N.C. prisoner (Journal Inquirer)
Sun, 11 May 2008 05:59:56 GMT
Staples Hughes, a North Carolina lawyer, was on the witness stand and about to disclose a secret he believed would free an innocent man from prison. But the judge told Hughes to stop.

Officer's widow: 'Half of who I am is gone' (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Tue, 06 May 2008 07:15:53 GMT
COLONIAL HEIGHTS -- The death of Colonial Heights police Lt. James H. "Jamie" Sears still weighs heavily on his family nearly 19 months after he was killed in an errant Chesterfield County police chase. Eldest son Luke, 15, "just feels empty inside" because his father can no longer take him and his two siblings to University of Virginia sporting events and baseball games in Baltimore. His ...

Suit filed against sheriff and deputies (The Register-Herald)
Tue, 06 May 2008 03:22:53 GMT
A wrongful death lawsuit filed late Monday afternoon claims members of the Raleigh County Sheriff’s Department acted negligently when they shot and killed a Cabell Heights man who was firing a high-powered weapon in the early morning hours of July 4, 2006.

Task force urged for police-involved shootings (Baltimore Examiner)
Wed, 07 May 2008 11:54:43 GMT
The state's NAACP is calling on Attorney General Doug Gansler to create a task force on police-involved shootings in Maryland.

Responses pending in soccer-death suit (Winchester Star)
Fri, 02 May 2008 04:45:56 GMT
Winchester — The nine defendants named in a $10 million wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the parents of a Frederick County boy who died when a soccer goal toppled onto him have not yet responded to the complaint.

Neglect Allegations At Memphis Nursing Home (Eyewitness News Memphis)
Wed, 07 May 2008 03:48:39 GMT
A Mid-South woman says her mother died five weeks after being burned by hot coffee at St. Francis Nursing Home.

Settlement reached in suit over anesthesia (The Register-Herald)
Sat, 03 May 2008 03:22:40 GMT
A wrongful death lawsuit that accused a local anesthesiologist of leaving a man conscious but paralyzed during surgery, prompting him to take his own life two weeks later, has been settled confidentially, according to documents filed in Raleigh County Circuit Court.

U.S. Supreme Court won't hear CCMH petition (Parkersburg News and Sentinel)
Fri, 02 May 2008 04:14:54 GMT
PARKERSBURG - The United States Supreme Court has denied hearing Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital's petition stemming from a high-profile wrongful death case. The court denied the hospital's petition for a writ of certiorari Monday, potentially ending Camden-Clark's appeals in the case of Ray Boggs v. Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital Corp.