Gary Lee Dicks, a Virginia truck driver, was acquitted by a Howard County District Court judge for traffic citations he had received in connection with a tragic accident involving a non-working traffic light that led to the deaths of two Howard County teenagers in January 2006. Scott Kaplan, a 19-year-old…
Federal officials in the U.S. say that bus drivers who use cell phones while driving may be partially to blame for the 17,000 school children that sustain injuries from school bus accidents each year. In an undercover news report by ABC News and Good Morning America, the reporting team got…
A series of DC Metro subway accidents in the past year, including a subway derailment in downtown D.C. in early January that put 20 people in the hospital and left 60 people stranded in a tunnel, is causing federal safety officials to examine the country’s second busiest urban rail system.…
The family of a 38-year-old woman killed in a deadly four-car freeway accident last month is suing singer-actress Brandy for $50 million. The wrongful death suit was filed yesterday in Los Angeles Superior Court by the parents of car accident victim Awatef Aboudihaj, one day after the California Highway Patrol…
Howard County Police Chief William J. McMahon wants the County Council to repeal a law banning the use of stun guns because he wants to equip several of his officers with Tasers. The handheld stun gun incapacitates a person for five seconds by shooting probes into that person’s skin. Several…
Three Elkton-area men were seriously injured last week in a single-car crash after a night of alleged heavy drinking. William Ross Hawkins III ran a Dodge Intrepid off Cayots Corner Road near Route 213, where he struck a culvert and flipped his vehicle at least twice. Hawkins and Christopher James…
The 41-year-old-woman who was arrested for hitting a toddler and his grandmother with her truck and then dragging the toddler in his stroller under her pickup truck for almost a mile as she left the scene has been indicted for auto manslaughter. Lazara Arellano de Hogue faces two felony counts…
In Annapolis, Maryland, a deadly car accident on Aris T. Allen Boulevard brought traffic to a halt for over four hours last Saturday. According to an Annapolis police spokesperson, a stolen white Volvo sedan had been speeding east on the boulevard near the Vineyard Road intersection when it crossed over…
The Court of Special Appeals in Maryland says that the family of deceased mechanic Joseph Wilbon will not get the nearly $500,000 they had won for Wilbon’s wrongful death. This latest ruling is based on a technical violation, because attorneys for the family did not file the wrongful death lawsuit…
A Maryland woman is suing the Guardian Elder Care at the Peterson Rehabilitation Hospital and Geriatric Center in Wheeling, West Virginia for nursing home negligence. Emily Kay Goddard Young filed the lawsuit in Ohio County on behalf of her father, the late Elwood M. Goddard. In December 2004, Goddard had…