By ED WHITE, DETROIT (AP) 12/27 — The family of a Detroit teenager who crashed an all-terrain vehicle and died after he was shot with a Taser has reached a $12 million settlement in a lawsuit against state troopers,
Category: Wrongful Death
DALLAS (AP) 07/22 — A lawsuit alleges a 90-year-old woman is another victim of a Dallas man who has been linked to 19 deaths.
The suit was filed Monday in Dallas County against The Tradition-Prestonwood,
By JANIE HAR, Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) 07/09 — The founder of an artists’ collective in a San Francisco Bay Area warehouse that caught fire two years ago,
By MICHAEL CASEY, Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) 06/25 — The head of the Massachusetts motor vehicle division has resigned after her agency failed to terminate the commercial driving license of a man whose collision with a group of motorcyclists on a rural New Hampshire road left seven bikers dead.
By JOHN ROGERS, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) 06/10 — The June 12, 1994, killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman brought the “Trial of the Century”
By DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) 11/13 — A suburban Chicago alderman called Tuesday for prosecutors to investigate the fatal shooting of a black security guard by a white police officer outside the bar where the guard worked.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) 10/10 — The Latest on the limousine crash in upstate New York that killed 20 people last weekend (all times local): 11:40 p.m.
By MICHAEL HILL and SABRINA CASTERTA, Associated Press SCHOHARIE, N.Y. (AP) 10/08 — The driver of a supersized limousine involved in a crash that killed 20 people outside an upstate New York country store wasn’t properly licensed,
By RYAN TARINELLI and KEN MILLER, Associated Press DALLAS (AP) 09/10 — A white Dallas police officer who says she mistook her black neighbor’s apartment for her own when she fatally shot him was arrested on a manslaughter charge.
By COLLEEN SLEVIN, Associated Press DENVER (AP) 08/03 — Thirty-three seconds after arriving at a suburban Denver home where a man had broken in and attacked an 11-year-old boy,
By COLLEEN SLEVIN, Associated Press AURORA, Colo. (AP) 08/02 — A decorated Vietnam War veteran woke up to the sound of his front door crashing in and saw a naked intruder attack his grandson,
By ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press WICHITA, Kan. (AP) 04/12 — The Kansas police officer who fired the shot that killed a man during a hoax emergency call will not face criminal charges,
By DAVID WARREN, Associated Press DALLAS (AP) 04/03 — One of the designers of a massive Kansas water park slide that decapitated a 10-year-old boy has been arrested in Texas,
By JOHN HANNA, Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) 03/28 — A water park company co-owner accused of rushing the world’s tallest waterslide into service and a designer accused of shoddy planning have been charged in the decapitation of a 10-year-old boy on the ride in 2016.
By AMY FORLITI and STEVE KARNOWSKI, Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) 03/21 — The police officer who was with a Minneapolis officer charged with murder and manslaughter in the death of an unarmed Australian woman said both men “got spooked”
MIAMI (AP) 03/18 — The Latest on the deadly pedestrian bridge collapse in Miami (all times local): 10:40 p.m.
Police in Miami say they believe they have recovered all the bodies of victims in a catastrophic bridge collapse on a busy highway.
By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and JENNIFER KAY, Associated Press MIAMI (AP) 03/17 — An engineer left a voicemail two days before a catastrophic bridge failure in Miami to say some cracking had been found at one end of the concrete span,
By STEVEN DUBOIS, Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) 01/26 — The family of an Arizona rancher who was killed by police during the armed occupation of a national wildlife refuge in Oregon alleged in a U.S.
By ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press WICHITA, Kan. (AP) 01/23 — The family of a Kansas man fatally shot by police at the door of his home after a hoax emergency call has sued the city of Wichita and the unidentified officers involved.
SEATTLE (AP) 01/12 — A federal judge has upheld a $15 million verdict against police in a small Washington state city who shot and killed an unarmed black man,Read more »