The family of Keith Scofield, a Frederick man who died 20 days after being sold the wrong drug for diabetes at a local Wal-Mart, is suing the retail chain for $50 million in a wrongful death lawsuit. The documents were filed in Frederick County Circuit Court on December 1. According…
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Parents Of Natalie Holloway File Wrongful Death Suit Against Brothers
Natalee Holloway’s parents have filed a wrongful death suit against two former suspects in the missing Alabama teenager’s case. Holloway had disappeared in 2005 while on a trip with schoolmates. Aruba police had searched for Holloway, but no one has ever been charged for her disappearance. Holloway, 18, was last…
December is National Drunk And Drugged Driving Prevention Month
Every year, in the United States, National Drunk and Drugged Driving And Prevention Month reminds people of the dangers of drunk driving. According to USA Today, over 1.5 million people were arrested in the U.S. in 2005 for drunk driving. At least that many people are believed to have driven…
Rosedale, Maryland Pedestrian Is Critically Injured After Car Accident
While walking through a parking area behind Sam’s Club at the Golden Ring Mall on December 11, Edward Witte, 61, was struck by a vehicle and dragged for about 30 feet. The driver of the vehicle was Baltimore resident Margaret Wance, 65. A police helicopter flew Witte to the Maryland…
On “Deadliest Drunk Driving States” List, Washington D.C. Ranks #1
With all the holiday parties that take place at the end of the year, drunk driving incidents tend to occur more frequently—which can be especially dangerous if you live in one of the 15 U.S. states where at least 41% of all traffic fatalities can be attributed to drunk driving.…
In Howard County Circuit Court, Parents of Two Teenagers Killed In Tractor-Trailer Accident File $5 Million Wrongful Death Lawsuits
The Maryland State Police, a former Howard County police officer, and a state trooper are among the 11 parties being sued for the wrongful deaths of two teenager who were killed in an accident involving a tractor-trailer and a non-working traffic light in Jessup, Maryland last January. In two separate…
In Car Accident Near The Maryland Line, Two People Are Injured On Del. 301
Two people were treated at Christiana Hospital last Friday night after being injured in a car crash on Del. 301 in the vicinity of Strawberry Lane near the Maryland line. According to Maryland State Police, the car collision occurred after a 2000 Ford Taurus pulled out of a service station…
In Hit-And-Run Dragging Death Of 3-Year-Old Maryland Boy, Woman Could Face 5 Years In Prison
A Towson, Maryland district court judge has reduced the bail of the woman charged in the hit-and-run dragging death of three-year-old Elijah Cozart in Baltimore County to $250,000. Cozart’s grandmother had been pushing him in a stroller across Goucher Boulevard when a 1999 Dodge Ram pickup truck, driven by Lazara…
Drunk Driver’s Blood Alcohol Level Was 4X Over The Legal Limit In Car Accident That Killed U.S. Marine In Columbia, Maryland
Police in Maryland say that the 25-year-old driver whose vehicle crashed right into the back of a Toyota Corolla, killing two people on Thanksgiving night, was driving under the influence with a blood alcohol level that was four times over the legal limit. The blood alcohol test was given to…
Family Of Slain Frederick Boy Want Additional Settlement Of $775,000 From Maryland
The family of Christopher Ausherman, Jr., the 9-year-old boy killed in 2005 by a convicted sexual offender who was wrongly released from prison, is asking for up to $775,000 more from either the Maryland General Assembly or Maryland’s Board of Public Works. The state of Maryland had recently paid Ausherman’s…