An Edgewater woman is suing her county police department for more than $3 million after an Anne Arundel County police officer allegedly overreacted and killed her family’s beloved pit bull. Deborah Ransom says that she and her teenaged daughter have “experienced fright, terror, panic, (and) sleeplessness” and sought counseling because…
University Legal Services, Inc., an advocacy group for Washington D.C. children that have developmental disabilities, say that children at Riverside Hospital are in danger of “serious and persistent abuse and neglect.” City mental health officials will now begin to visit the hospital on a weekly basis to monitor the conditions…
Calls for better pool safety laws continue in Maryland, in the wake of a serious accident involving 6-year-old Abigail Taylor from Minnesota. Taylor was swimming in a wading pool when the pool’s drain sucked up her intestines and ripped a hole in her rectum. The little girl passed out and…
Authorities say that two people were injured in Washington D.C. on Wednesday when fireworks that had been leftover from the big show on the National Mall went off. The injured persons are fireworks crew members. One of them was treated at the accident scene while the other worker has serious…
A 13-year-old lost her feet yesterday, when she severed them while riding an amusement park ride at a Six Flags amusement park in Kentucky. She was riding the Superman Tower of Power when a frayed cable snapped, hitting the girl’s legs and severing both of them above her ankle. She…
A boy died in an ATV accident last Friday at the National Harbor construction site. According to Prince George County police, the boy had managed to enter the site, located on Oxon Hill Road, and gotten on top of the ATV-like equipment, which overturned, pinning the boy underneath. He was…
Last Sunday, four people driving scooters were injured in three separate motor vehicle collisions in Ocean City, Maryland. In the first accident, scooter driver Christopher Herndon was hit by a vehicle at the Baltimore Avenue and 23rd Street intersection. His injuries were treated at AGH. In the second accident, a…
Brandy Norwood, the R& B singer-actress is countersuing for negligence Mallory Ham, a man who is also suing the performer for personal injury. Both Brandy and Ham are facing wrongful death lawsuits from the family of Awatef Aboudihaj, the woman who was killed when her Toyota Corolla was struck by…
Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley has signed into law a bill that imposes penalties on failing to stop at a nonfunctioning traffic light located off a highway exit ramp. The penalties will be the same as for running a red light. The state legislation created the bill after a deadly motor…
A new study recently released by Safe Kids Worldwide says that Maryland is number 12 out of all 50 states and D.C. in a new ranking report of children’s unintentional injury deaths during the summer. The report is called The Safe Kids U.S. Summer Safety Ranking Report. Maryland’s unintentional injury-related…