Back in 2013, Linda Wong, a transplant surgeon in Hawaii, saw an unusual amount of cases in which her patients were coming in with liver failure. They complained of nausea and showed signs of jaundice. Before the month was over, eight of Wong’s patients had abnormal liver test results. Seeing the similarities, but unsure of…
The family of a sailor aboard the El Faro cargo ship that was presumed to have gone down in Hurricane Joaquin has filed a lawsuit against the company that owned the ship as well as the still-missing ship captain. An attorney filed the suit on behalf of the family of Lonnie Jordan. Jordan was just…
After a night of partying and drinking, a 16-year-old in Texas loaded up seven of his friends in his truck and took off down a dark road. The driver’s blood alcohol level was reportedly more than three times the legal limit at the time. While speeding down the country road at 70mph, the driver lost…
It’s hard to believe that it’s already been more than two years since the Blue Rhino explosion at the plant in Tavares, but for the individuals injured in that blast, as well as their families, it will always be in the back of their minds. The explosion was heard and felt for miles, and it…
Last month we blogged about the Orlando cobra who escaped from its enclosure while the owner was away; now, finally after weeks of sustained paranoia, Elvis is back in the building. The eight-foot-long cobra was found in an Orlando suburb not terribly far, about half a mile, from where it had escaped. A woman discovered…
Last week, an Orlando police officer was stopped at a red light at the intersection of International and Altamira Drive over by the Artegon Marketplace just before midnight when he was rear-ended by a drunk driver in an SUV. The squad car was completely totaled by the wreck. The officer was trapped in the car…
One of KFC’s primary chicken suppliers aren’t going to be feeling so plucky after being levied with a number of heavy fines for workplace safety issues. Case Farms, the chicken supplier, and Cal-Clean, a subcontractor responsible for cleaning, have been ordered to pay more than $1.4 million in damages to their employees. In a report…
A construction worker was killed recently in a workplace accident after being crushed between the bucket-lift he was in and the roof of the building he had been working on. The roofer, who had been working on the roof of the Ford dealership in Orange City, was not alone at the time of the accident.…
A Cooper City man was having a good time at a local bar on the night of September 11, and had allegedly had more than enough to drink, prompting his friends and the bartender to stop serving him alcohol. They could see that he was in no shape to drive and offered to get him…
A number of labor groups and Democrats hosted a rally recently at Sedano’s Supermarket in Orlando in order to show support for a significant raise in minimum wage. They gathered in support of an increasingly popular bill that proposes a $15 minimum wage. The current minimum wage in Florida is $8.05. Other large cities across…
Two young teenagers were seriously injured by a hit-and-run driver recently in Seminole County. The teenagers, who had been skateboarding at the time, were both hit simultaneously by an oncoming car. The Florida Highway Patrol says that the car was travelling down Lake Howell when it struck the teens at the Maywood Road intersection just…
It’s been almost two years since the untimely death of beloved actor Paul Walker in a car accident. Walker left behind a daughter who is now suing Porsche. She claims that design defects were to blame for her father’s death. Walker was killed in a fiery car crash, and his daughter, Meadow, contends that the…
