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…
In an effort to promote highway safety, the Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety are asking the Maryland General Assembly to increase the penalties for “super-drunk” drivers—drivers with a BAC level over twice the legal limit. The national organization says Maryland is one of sixteen states that it has marked…
Metro Networks, the largest traffic gathering and reporting operation in America, recently released its list “The Top Ten Worst Traffic Incidents of 2006.” An accident involving two tractor-trailers colliding on I-95 North in Massaponax, VA put the Washington D.C. area in the number 10 spot. The trucks ended up catching…
In one of the many thousands of products liability Vioxx-related lawsuits that have been brought against Merck and Co., a Texas judge upheld a ruling that held the pharmaceutical company responsible for the death of Leonel Garza. Garza died in 2001 from a heart attack believed to have been caused…