James Laing, 46, was killed by a hit and run driver around 3:45 pm on a Saturday afternoon while bicycling on Augora Road in Augora Hills, California. Laing, a resident of West Hills, was traveling eastbound in the bike lane, just east of Liberty Canyon Road when a car, also eastbound, hit Laing on his…
During a recent visit by President Obama to Portland, OR a motorcyclist was killed when security measures on Interstate 84 snarled traffic, causing a traffic accident. The westbound lanes were completely closed to accommodate the President’s motorcade, and eastbound traffic ground to a halt when motorists slowed down, hoping to catch a glimpse of the…
Despite an appeal by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has once again denied federal disaster aid to the victims of the San Bruno, California gas line explosion. Thirty-five homes were destroyed and eight people killed when the PG&E gas line exploded in September of this year. FEMA maintains that local resources…
A recently released report from the House Energy and Commerce Committee, led by California Representative Henry Waxman, found that denial of individual health insurance policies increased almost 50% between 2007 and 2009, and that companies are denying more claims based on pre-existing conditions. Four of the largest insurance companies, WellPoint Inc., Aetna Inc., Humana Inc.,…
An Orange County, California woman was killed when she lost control of a go-kart in a flea market parking lot and careened into the adjoining street, where she was struck by a car and instantly killed. 67-year old Fullerton resident Hwa Oh was helping her sister who was a vendor at an Orange County swap…
Twenty-year-old Declan Sullivan was killed while filming a University of Notre Dame football practice from a hydraulic scissor lift as part of his on-campus job. The lift was extended to a height that just exceeded the football goal posts, and either blew over or collapsed in a strong gust of wind during the team’s practice,…
Ralphs and Albertsons supermarkets find themselves on the defensive end of two class action employment lawsuits brought by 9,000 union workers. The worker say they were illegally denied millions of dollars in benefits while on strike in 2003. The cases challenge decisions made by the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board that allowed the grocery stores…
An unlicensed driver suffered a grand mal seizure, causing his car to jump the curb and hit a mother and her four-year-old son on the adjacent sidewalk. An iron fence stopped the car’s momentum, but not before it crushed the stroller and caused the mother and son to fly 20 feet through the air. The…
In an unusual ruling, a Missouri judge issued a permanent injunction against the standard “non-compete” clause signed by Individual Taxes Etc. Inc. employees who were hired as temporary workers to prepare seasonal tax returns. Individual Taxes is a franchised subsidiary of New Jersey-based Jackson Hewitt. As a course of the hiring process, Individual Taxes has…
An unidentified male pedestrian was hit and killed by a big-rig flat bed truck as he crossed Harbor Boulevard in Santa Ana around 6:30 a.m. on October 15th. It was still dark when the accident occurred. The man was crossing Harbor Blvd. about 300 feet south of the intersection with Westminster Avenue when the truck…
