Paula Bellamy was going about her day doing her job as a “slinger” at the APM Terminals in Portsmouth, Virginia (VA), when her life came to a sudden, tragic end. She was hit and killed by a forklift. Reports indicate the forklift operator picked up some steel bins and moved forward. As the forklift moved,…
James Stidfole of Yorktown, Virginia (VA), and Teresa Hill of Virginia Beach were killed in a plane crash just after takeoff from the Chesapeake Regional Airport. They were brother and sister, and both were only in their early 40s. My deepest sympathies go out to their family. Losing a loved one in a sudden accident…
The deafening crash, shearing of metal, and shattering of glass were the last things the two brothers heard when a Volvo slammed head-on into their Taurus on the Eastern Shore of Virginia (VA). The two brothers died and two people were seriously injured in the head-on crash on Va. 175 on the Chincoteague Causeway on…
A brother and sister lost their lives at the Chesapeake Regional Airport on Sunday, April 3, 2011, when their Lancair IV high-performance single-propeller plane crashed shortly after taking off and experiencing engine trouble. The man was an Army helicopter test pilot who had bought the plane used in 2008. According to the Virginian-Pilot, “James Lawrence…
Defective hip implants are affecting people from all walks of life including those living right here in Hampton Roads. That’s what 59-year-old Clayton Blosser of Newport News, Virginia (VA) faced when he opened a letter last year that said the artificial hip he’d had implanted in 2006 was being recalled by the manufacturer. Priscilla LeMoine…