Time for Tiger Woods to Come Clean
At 2:30 a.m. last Friday morning, Tiger Woods got into his Cadillac Escalade SUV and proceeded to run over a fire hydrant and crash into a neighbor’s tree. His wife used a golf club to break the rear-seat passenger windows to get Tiger out. Tiger reportedly at one point was lying unconscious on the street, [...]
U.S. Guilty of “Gross Negligence” in Hurricane Katrina Flooding
On August 28th, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the southern coast of the United States with devastating effect. More than 1,800 people lost their lives, and more than $81 billion in property damages resulted. However, on Wednesday, November 18, 2009, a federal judge ruled that the United States Army Corps of Engineers had shown “gross negligence” [...]
Important Claim Against Fosomax Dismissed
Releasing a statement on Tuesday, Merck & Co. revealed that a U.S. district court dismissed claims against the company in a second “bellwether” or “key” regarding the drug Fosomax. As of Sept. 30, the company has been fighting 953 lawsuits which allege that their osteoporosis drug Fosamax causes a painful ailment called [...]
Health Care Bill Is Badly Needed
It seems that wherever you turn these days, you cannot escape talk on the proposed health care plan wending its way through Congress. First, I think that everyone agrees that we need an overhaul of the current health care system. It just isn’t working. The costs are so prohibitive that many Americans cannot afford any [...]
9/11 Mastermind to Face Public Trial
On Friday, November 13, 2009, United States Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced that the government would prosecute Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed architect of the 9/11 World Trade Center terrorist attack, and four others in a civilian courthouse just blocks away from the scene of their alleged crimes. In a statement, Holder said [...]
Anti-Abortionist Confesses to Killing Abortion Provider
In the 1973 case of Roe v. Wade, the United States Supreme Court recognized the right of a woman to abort a fetus. Whether you are morally opposed to abortion or not, the fact is that a woman’s right to get an abortion has been the law of the land for over 35 years, despite [...]
Formal Charges in Seattle Cop Killing Expected
Charges are currently pending against the man suspected of killing a Seattle police officer on Halloween, as well as the October 22nd bombings of several police vehicles. Mark Jamieson, spokesperson for the Seattle Police Department, says that prosecutors are planning to announce the formal charges against forty-one-year-old Christopher Monfort at a press conference on Monday. [...]
Military Psychiatrist Goes Ballistic
On Thursday afternoon November 5, 2009, 39-year-old Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an army psychiatrist who was awaiting deployment to Afghanistan at Fort Hood, Texas, the country’s largest military base, armed himself with two guns and opened fire on the grounds, killing 13 and injuring 38. He was brought down by two civilian officers who shot [...]
The Man Who Changed America
June 4, 1968 was a great day for me. I had spent the day at the local “Robert F. Kennedy for President” headquarters, waiting word about whether or not our beloved Bobby would win the State of California in his quest to follow in his brother John’s footsteps and become President of the United States. [...]
$7M Awarded to Victim’s Family for Ky. Plane Crash
Posted by John Fiore on December 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment
A jury has awarded over seven million dollars to the family of a passenger that was killed in the crash of a Comair regional jet in Kentucky in 2006. The suit was filed by survivors of Bryan Keith Woodward, and is the only passenger suit that reached trial. The jet crashed after attempting to take [...]
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