A federal Judge in Maryland reduced the amount of damages that Westboro Baptist Church must pay to the father of Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, a fallen Marine whose funeral the church had picketed. A Maryland jury had originally awarded Cpl. Snyder’s father, Albert Snyder, $10.9 million last October: $2.9…
The man who survived the force of gravity when he fell 47 stories while getting ready to wash the windows of a Manhattan building plans to file a personal injury lawsuit against the company that installed the scaffolding that broke, as well as the skyscraper’s management company. 37-year-old window washer…
In Washington D.C., Howard University Hospital and Daniel and Dorothy Rosenbaum, the adult children of deceased New York Times reporter David Rosenbaum, have reached a settlement in the medical malpractice and negligence lawsuit filed against D.C. emergency workers and the hospital. The 63-year-old reporter, who had just retired after 30…
The father of a solider killed in Iraq won a $10.9 million personal injury verdict against the Westboro Baptist Church, a fundamentalist church in Kansas. The church pickets at military funerals because it believes that the Iraqi War is God’s way of punishing the US for its acceptance of homosexuals.…
Brian Boyle, a Maryland swimmer who was critically injured when his car was struck by a speeding dump truck three years ago is continuing his remarkable recovery from his catastrophic injuries. The 21-year-old will be competing in this weekend’s Ironman World Championship in Hawaii. In 2003, Boyle had been returning…
The National Safety Council says that accidental deaths are increasing in the United States. It also cited accidents as the number three cause of death in Washington D.C. and the number six cause of fatalities in Maryland. The NSC says that accidents are the major cause of death for people…
Roderick Parks has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for showing a live video on the Internet of him molesting a minor. The sentenced was handed down in Baltimore at the federal court. Parks, 42, has AIDS. He was apprehended after Australian Federal Police were notified that there was…
A Washington D.C. television news team from 9NEWS NOW has found lead on a park fence at the Friendship Recreation Center Park located on Van Ness Street. The team took paint samples and sent it to the GPL Lab. The lab, located in Frederick, Maryland, also does tests for the…
Actress Lindsay Lohan will has been ordered by a judge to appear in court on April 7 for the personal injury lawsuit filed against her in an October 2005 motor vehicle accident. The 21-year-old actress is being sued by the man whose van collided with Lohan’s Mercedes-Benz. Los Angeles Superior…
At the University of Maryland in College Park, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a national warning cautioning college students to be careful about fires on campus. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission chose the University of Maryland at College Park as the venue for issuing the warning because…