Bumble Bee Foods will pay $6 million in a plea agreement after the tragic death of an employee, according to WFAA News. The accident occurred at a plant in Santa Fe Springs, California, in 2012 as 62-year-old Jose Melena worked on a large oven. Melena was likely fixing or changing a chain in the oven […]
A small helicopter crashed in Denton County near Robson Ranch Wednesday afternoon, according to the Dallas Morning News. A flight instructor and a student were onboard when the crash occurred just south of Denton Enterprise Airport. One of the occupants contacted the flight school, which then contacted 911. The crash site was near I-35W and […]
A former Houston radio talk show host was injured after his plane suffered engine trouble, according to NBC DFW. 63-year-old Edd Campbell Hendee and two passengers were travelling to Houston in a private plane from Angelina County Airport in Lufkin, outside of Nacogdoches, on Friday morning when mechanical issues forced it to make an emergency […]
A Georgia jury awarded a family $150 million earlier this month for their loss of a four-year-old child after an accident in their Jeep Grand Cherokee, according to the Huffington Post. The accident took place in 1999 after the Jeep Grand Cherokee four-year-old Remington Walden was riding in was rear-ended, and ruptured the fuel tank. […]
A Dallas woman is seeking more than $1 million from the Dallas Police Department, after they allegedly failed to respond to her calls for help, according to NBC DFW. Roxanna Mayo, a formerly successful salon owner, was shot by her then-boyfriend on January 19th. Earlier that day, Mayo claims her boyfriend was drunk and threatening […]
A South Carolina police officer has been arrested for murder after a video surfaced of him chasing and shooting an unarmed man eight times, according to the Huffington Post. Similar cases have rocked news outlets in the past months, but this is one of the first to have video of the incident. 33-year-old police officer […]
Almost 800 people have joined a lawsuit filed against John Hopkins University for experiments that took place in the 1940s, according to Buzzfeed. About 1,000 Guatemalans were intentionally infected with gonorrhea, without their knowledge or consent, in an attempt to evaluate how well penicillin and other antibiotics worked in treating sexually transmitted disease. Gonorrhea, sometimes […]
Two deaths have occurred in less than a week at an Argyle construction site, according to NBC DFW. The deaths were the results of separate car accidents at a construction site near Argyle High School; the first occurred last Thursday after a metal frame came down on several workers. 36-year-old single father of three, Julio […]
Closely following the allegations that a Germanwings pilot intentionally crashed a commercial plane into the French Alps, a JetBlue Airways pilot has filed a lawsuit against his employer for failing to recognize his illness, according to NBC DFW. The pilot, 52-year-old Clayton Osborn yelled at passengers during a New York to Las Vegas flight in […]
A small plane crashed into a North Texas home on Sunday, according to the Dallas Morning News. Four people are said to be injured after the Sunday afternoon accident in Gordonsville, about 85 miles north of Dallas. The propeller and engine came off the plane, a Beechcraft B35 aircraft, and struck an unoccupied home, and […]