A number of motorcycle accidents in the past several weeks have caused police in Anne Arundel County to warn drivers on the road to pay more attention to motorcyclists. On April 22, Lora Burgess, of Laurel, and Kevin Ross, of Baltimore, were killed in Millersville on Interstate 97 after their…
Marouane Hdidou, the husband of a waitress who died in a car collision involving singer-actress Brandy, has filed a wrongful death claim against her. This is the third wrongful death lawsuit filed against Brandy Morris in connection to the death of Awatef Aboudihaj, whose parents and two children have already…
Philip Peters, Jr., from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law, says that juries tend to believe doctors more than plaintiffs in medical malpractice cases—contrary to popular belief in the medical communities that juries usually favor plaintiffs. He says he found that the majority of malpractice suits end in defense…
Montgomery County Police Officer Luke Hoffman was chasing a suspected drunken driver on foot last Wednesday when he was hit by a police car on Old Georgia Avenue in Aspen Hill. He was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center where he died from his injuries. Hoffman, 24, had been chasing…
A $10,000 reward is being offered by the Metropolitan Police Department for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the driver of a green SUV that struck and killed six-year-old Crysta Marie Spencer as she crossed 6th Street, NE, near Orleans Place on Monday. Witnesses say Spencer was knocked…
Investigators in Barton, Maryland, are trying to determine the cause of the wall collapse that led to the death of two miners on Michael Road. Dale Jones, 51, and Mike Wilt, 38, were both killed on the site last week. According to Amy Louviere, Mine Safety and Health Administration spokeswoman,…
David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize winning-journalist known for writing a number of well-regarded nonfiction books, including “The Best and the Brightest,” “The Powers that Be,” and “The Fifties,” died in a car accident on April 23 in Menlo Park, California. The 73-year-old writer was headed to an interview with Hall…
Although text messaging while driving is not considered illegal in Maryland, drivers could be fined if caught by police. A recent survey by Nationwide Mutual Insurance found that 37% of drivers between the ages of 18 and 27 engage in text message while driving. This can make the roads more…
In Frederick County, Maryland, a man and woman in a Chrysler Sebring died last Wednesday in a car crash resulting from a road rage incident. Maryland State Police say that according to witnesses, the driver of a green pickup truck and the man and woman in the Sebring exchanged obscene…
On an open field on Maryland’s Eastern Shore on April 4, three people died when their small plane crashed during a thunderstorm. The victims were Gregory Doppke, a heating and cooling contractor and the plane’s pilot, his business partner Richard Lomas, and their friend Andrew Young. Lomas and Doppke ran…