Police found the synthetic marijuana product known as spice in the pickup truck driven by Stephen Vance shortly after he struck and killed Lucille Wheeler in Fisherville, Virginia (VA), on October 13, 2010. The 81-year-old woman had been mowing the lawn outside her home on Jefferson Highway, and Vance now faces aggravated involuntary manslaughter charges….
Concerns that companies installing and operating red light cameras could have incentives to put profits ahead of safety and accuracy are being voiced by a pro-consumer group. Some contracts require cities to guarantee payment ammounts each month, according to a report on a U.S. Public Interest Research Group study in the October 27, 2011, Virginian-Pilot….
A 13-year-old is currently recovering at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital from a fractured leg he suffered in a hit-and-run accident shortly after 7 am on October 24, 2011. The boy was running to catch his school bus along Rangtang Road when he tripped and got run into by a driver who, the victim said, “kind…
My colleague Emily Mapp Brannon has written a new post for our firm’s VA-NC Medical Surgery Malpractice Attorneys blog site site about a lawsuit in which a couple from West Virginia (WV) is seeking compensaion form and punitve damages against a doctor they claim failed to diagnose the wife’s skin cancer despite the presence and…
A Chesapeake, Virginia (VA), school bus was struck by a car at the intersection of Cedar Road and Bells Mill Road, leaving one of the 43 students aboard injured. The student complained that her neck hurt and was taken to a hospital. A passenger in the car was injured. Authorities are still investing the cause of the wreck, which…