A 17-year-old who was reportedly walking home from a North Carolina store on the night of August 18, 2017, died after a pickup truck driver ran off the road and struck him. The fatal pedestrian accident happened at around 9 pm on Queens Creek Road in the Onslow County town of Swansboro. Information…
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the government agency that is in charge of testing and approving new drugs before they can become available for doctors to prescribe to patients. In 1992, a new law was passed, Prescription Drug User Fee Act, which allowed the FDA to accept a fee from drug companies when…
A section of interstate near the Virginia Beach Oceanfront known for deadly collisions saw a new fatal crash on the morning of August 16, 2017. At 7:43 am, a Ford Taurus crossed the median of I-264 on the Birdneck Road overpass and struck two other vehicles head-on. Only one of the three drivers involved in…
A judge awarded $5.3 million to the family of a woman who lost her life after suffering a brain aneurysm following numerous visits to the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. The attorney who represented the family of the victim presented a life care planner to the court who estimated the annual cost for the care of…
We all know that in life, “poop happens”, and it does so quite literally at some PetSmart stores where customers are allowed to bring their pets inside. Unfortunately at a Newport News Virginia (VA) store a customer slipped and injured himself on dog waste. Holloway and his daughter were customers at the Jefferson Avenue store on Jan….