On Friday morning, a toddler became pinned underneath his bedroom dresser in Orem, Utah. His twin brother rescued him from the Ikea dresser by moving the piece of furniture off him, which took about two minutes. Despite vigilant efforts at childproofing and placing surveillance cameras around the home, the parents did not witness the accident…

Early Tuesday morning, an electrical fire in a television claimed the life of a man in Snohomish, Washington. Upon receipt of calls received about smoke and flames coming from the home, fire crews responded around 4:30 am and rescued the man, who was in his 90s, and his wife. Despite crew members attempting CPR, the…

Late Thursday night, a plane carrying a pilot and five passengers disappeared about two miles over Lake Erie and is missing. The Cessna Citation 525 plane, which took off in Cleveland, Ohio, from the Burke Lakefront Airport, was flying to the Ohio State University airport in Columbus after the occupants went to a Cleveland Cavaliers…

Recently, it was determined through extensive studies by Reuters that almost 3,000 communities had much higher lead level amounts than Flint, Michigan. One of the communities identified is Oakland, California. Five hundred children living in the Fruitvale area of Oakland were tested for lead exposure, and the results showed that almost eight percent of them…

A plane crash claimed the lives of three individuals on Monday night in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee. The pilot, accompanied by his 8-year-old son and 42-year-old girlfriend, was flying the Cessna 182 single-engine plane from the Jacksonville, Florida area to the Gatlinburg-Pigeon Forge, Tennessee airport in order to visit relatives. He…

Products Liability Lawyer: Days after a Texas jury paid out $1 billion to six patients over Johnson and Johnson’s hip replacement products, another lawsuit has been filed by man in Indiana. In early December, the man filed the lawsuit in Middlesex County, New Jersey, over the defective hip replacement devices, which are made by a…

At shopping malls nationwide, fights and disturbances erupted, causing personal injuries and chaos the day after Christmas. Individuals shopping at malls in Colorado, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas found it difficult to shop or return gifts due to massive fights and other disturbances. Claims of gunfire and fights created a panic among…

Products Liability Lawyer: IKEA will pay a $50 million settlement to the families of the children who lost their lives when dressers, manufactured by the Swedish furniture retailer, tipped over. In 2014, two toddlers passed away after the MALM model dressers fell on them. This year, after IKEA developed and offered a new repair program,…

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) now recommends umbilical cord clamping within 30 to 60 seconds after birth. For full term infants, clamping improves their iron supplies during the first few months, which assists in the development of cognitive, motor, and behavioral skills. For preterm infants, the delay improves circulation and builds up…

At a traffic stop in Derby, Connecticut, police seized 55 pounds of the prescription drug fentanyl. The The street price of this dangerous opioid was valued at $1.5 million. The driver, a man from Arizona, had the drugs hidden in the cabin of his tractor trailer. Drug traffickers like the one in Connecticut are a symptom…