The summer months will soon be with us and the family barbeque season in St. Louis will be in full swing. People who have purchased a new grill or are thinking of doing so need to know that the STOK Island and STOK Quattro gas grills have been recalled. There are over 87,000 of these […]
A Kirkwood Missouri resident has been charged in the death of a bicycle rider in University City this February. She is charged with both driving under the influence and involuntary manslaughter. The driver, Emily C. Hagan, was well over the legal limit in Missouri. Awareness of the heartbreak caused by drunk driving has been responsible […]
The death of a close family member changes your entire life in an instant. Dealing with the death of a loved one is never easy, but it is especially difficult when the death results from an accident caused by someone else’s negligence. Surviving family members are not only dealing with grief and emotional turmoil, but […]
A school district in New Jersey agreed to settle a lawsuit for $4.2 Million Dollars brought by a student who was paralyzed when a known bully punched him. The attack caused a clot in an artery that supplies blood to the spine, resulting in paralysis from the waist down. Prior to the attack, the victim, […]
Marie-Therese Connolly worked for years with the federal government investigating and prosecuting nursing homes for mistreatment of the elderly. Connolly left her post as head of the Elder Justice and Nursing Home Initiative but she never stopped working to help the elderly. In 2007 she founded the nonprofit group Lifelong Justice to help detect and […]
The Rolla Daily News reported April 13, 2012 on an auto accident on Interstate 44 that resulted in fatal injuries. The state police are not sure if the inclement weather that day acted as a cause of the accident but it was definitely contributed to many others that day. State trooper Sgt. Dan Crain described […]
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission along with bicycle brands Giant, GT and Trek announced a recall of the bicycles listed below that are equipped with the SR Suntour Suspension Forks. Owners of these bicycles should stop using these bicycles immediately unless otherwise instructed. The suspension fork, manufactured by SR Suntour, of Taiwan and Vancouver, Wash, has internal […]
Quigley Co., a non-operating bankrupt entity of Pfizer Inc. produced products for the steel industry for 30 years beginning in the 1940s that contained asbestos. Pfizer purchased Quigley in the late 1960s and Quigley filed for bankruptcy in 2004. A federal appeals court recently ruled that Pfizer is not entitled to protection from some asbestos […]
Two year old Aaliyah Jones was in a neighbor’s driveway in north St.Louis County when a vehicle being driven by a neighbor was backing out of the driveway and did not see the child. The child was taken to St. Louis Children’s Hospital and was pronounced dead a couple of hours later. According to a […]
Texting while driving has proven to be dangerous, and in many cases, deadly, regardless of what your age is! Stltoday.com reported on March 23, 2012 that a little boy, who was fatally injured in a car accident in St. Clair County has been identified. Diego Rangel was riding with his mother Mindy Hoyt on March […]
