Civil charges that a Norfolk police officer used excessive force when he repeatedly used his Taser to shock a mentally disabled woman because she would not turn down the radio she played while exercising with a hula hoop near Wards Corner have been settled for $65,000. The Virginian-Pilot reported on Saturday that Pamela Brown’s legal…
An ongoing investigation of improper prostate cancer treatments at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Philadelphia has revealed that nearly all of the men who underwent a radiotherapy procedure received doses that either did them no good or caused potential harm. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported this week that cases of under- and overdosing radiation for veterans…
Residents of Georgetown, South Carolina (SC), have filed suit against International Paper, claiming that high levels of toxins from the paper mill IP operates in the town have caused serious health problems. The Post and Courier is reporting that the people who filed the suit are claiming IP “knew, or should have known, that the…
I noticed over the weekend that an Oklahoma (OK) man has filed a lawsuit against the surgeon who mistakenly operated on and severely damaged his healthy knee. Earlier this year, William Paul Boykin went to Bailey Medical Center to have arthroscopic surgery to repair damage in one knee. According to court filings summarized in a…
North Carolina State Troopers reported that two Maryland women died in a head-on accident last Sunday night in Craven County. The crash occurred on Highway 17, just north of Vanceboro, North Carolina (N.C.). The victims killed in this tragic accident were Lorriane Boboteck, the driver of the southbound vehicle and Christina Sonn, the driver of…