A 27-year-old Westminster man was killed in a Orange County motorcycle accident and a 24-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of drunk driving and gross vehicular manslaughter, according to a news report. Joey Ramos was riding his motorcycle when he was struck and killed by a pick-up truck driven by Tania Gallina of Los…
A 74-year-old Orange County woman was killed in a Tustin pedestrian accident when she was struck by a car and dragged for almost a mile, according to a news report. Berna Martinez was hit by the driver of a Mercury Sable at the bottom of the I-5 freeway ramp while she was attempting to cross…
A 38-year-old Riverside woman who pleaded guilty to hit and run manslaughter in the death of an Irvine bicyclist has been sentenced to three years in prison, according to a news report. Patricia Ann Izquieta was driving under the influence of prescription drugs in December of 2009 when she hit 49-year-old Donald Murphy while he…
An investigation by the Orange County District Attorney’s Office has concluded that the Newport Beach Police Department had no criminal culpability in the death of William Robert Wedgeworth, who hung himself in the Newport Beach City Jail last July. According to a news report, Wedgeworth’s family had filed $34 million in claims against the city,…
A former female patient at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange has alleged that she was the victim of a sexual assault by a male hospital employee, according to a news report. The unidentified woman alleges that she was the victim of a sexual assault while she was in the hospital’s emergency room. She reportedly identified…
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that vaccine manufacturers are shielded against certain types of personal injury lawsuits due to a 1986 law that established a no-fault compensation system for injuries linked to childhood vaccines. The case of Brueswitz v. Wyeth LLC involved a Pennsylvania family that sued drug manufacturer Wyeth, alleging that their daughter…
A driver reaching for his laptop who rear-ended a truck, sending it into a crosswalk and killing a baby in a stroller, has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter. According to a news report, Robert Anthony Casares, 50, of Huntington Beach received a sentence of three years of informal probation, and was ordered to perform…
A 47-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of hit-and-run and driving on a suspended license, as well as an outstanding DUI warrant from an unrelated case, after leaving the scene of a traffic accident that left a motorcyclists with serious injuries, according to a news report. Huntington Beach police arrested DeAndre Curtis Hill at…
A three-car pileup in Westminster sent a 7-year-old boy to UCI Medical Center in Orange with serious head injuries, according to a news report. The California Highway Patrol said that the boy was riding in the right rear seat of a Honda Accord traveling west on Hazard Avenue when the driver turned in front of…
A 58-year-old woman being treated for cancer at Newport Beach’s Hoag Hospital may lose her breasts because of a flaw in a new Xoft Inc. radiation system at the hospital, according to a news report. The unidentified woman was undergoing treatment to her left breast when a shield used with the system shed tiny tungsten…
