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Tolland
Police & Fire
19-Year-Old Woman Killed, 4 Hospitalized In Willington Crash
A teenager was killed and four others hospitalized in an overnight single-vehicle crash in Connecticut. It happened around 10:15 p.m. Saturday, April 27, in Tolland County in the town of Willington. A 2007 Subaru Legacy with five occupants, all from the town of Bethel in Fairfield County, was traveling southbound on River Road when the driver lost control, causing the vehicle to overturn, according to Connecticut State Police. One of the passengers, 19-year-old Maria Damata sustained life-threatening injuries and was pronounced dead, said police. The driver, a 21-year-old man,…
Essex NJ
News
Family Of Newark Cheerleader Critically Injured In Crash Takes Legal Action
The family of an 18-year-old Newark cheerleader critically injured in a crash outside of her school last month has taken legal action against the Newark Board of Education and others they say are responsible for the accident. The family of Chiara Jones, the 18-year-old Newark cheerleader who was critically injured after she was struck by a hit-and-run vehicle outside her high school while coming home from a competition, announced on Monday, March 25, they have filed a notice of claim against the school district. Chiara Jones was struck by a vehicle outside Arts High School while getti…
Franklin PA
News
PA Mom Attacked By Bear Undergoes Multiple Surgeries
A 55-year-old Pennsylvania mom is out of the hospital after a bear attack in her own backyard, she told Daily Voice. Lee Ann Galante was letting her dog out of the backdoor of her home on Bellefield Drive, Butler Township at 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 5, and unknown to her there were three cubs in a tree — that's when the mama bear attacked, as Daily Voice initially reported. Galante suffered injuries to her head, neck, face, and arms, authorities explained. She was taken by Butler Ambulance Service to Butler Memorial Hospital. Posted by Lee Ann Galante on Wednesd…
Morris
News
Morris County Dunkin' Customer 'Rendered Disabled' In Hot Coffee Spill, Lawsuit Says
A New Jersey man has filed a lawsuit against Dunkin' Donuts alleging he was seriously burned by "excessively hot" coffee in 2022. Phillip Sgroi says in the suit filed in Middlesex County Superior Court that he was at a Madison (Morris County) location on Feb. 11, 2022, when he purchased his beverage. Sgroi's suit alleges the lid came off and the "excessively hot" coffee in the cup spilled on him. Sgroi said he was rendered disabled and suffered internal and external wounds on his body. Sgroi suit further says the lid was not properly secured to the Styrofoam cup and the coffee itself was …
Gloucester
Police & Fire
Williamstown Driver, 38, Killed After Hitting Landscaping Stone, Tree In Franklin Twp Crash
A 38-year-old Williamstown man died in a Franklin Township crash late Saturday, March 2, local police said. Robert Lafferty III's Kia Optima veered off the 3500 block of West Malaga Road into the oncoming lane of traffic before hitting a landscaping stone, several mailboxes and a tree before coming to rest, local police said. Lafferty was hospitalized where he was pronounced dead while his 41-year-old male passenger suffered a possible broken wrist, police said. The crash remains under investigation.
Suffolk NY
Police & Fire
Man Hospitalized After Being Struck By Car Outside Riverhead Fitness Center
A man is recovering after being struck by a car in the parking lot of a Long Island fitness center. The incident happened at around 9:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 8, in Riverhead, just outside the Planet Fitness on Old Country Road. According to Riverhead Police, a 52-year-old woman was driving a Honda pickup truck through the parking lot when she struck the victim, identified as a 68-year-old Aquebogue man. The man was initially taken by ambulance to Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead and was transferred to South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore. Police did not elaborate on the…
Suffolk MA
News
Couple Sues Boston Eatery For $50K After Wife Allegedly Slips, Falls On Prosciutto
Forget banana peels, slipping and falling on a piece of prosciutto is just as dangerous, according to a lawsuit filed against a Suffolk County restaurant. Alice Cohen and Ronald Cohen, a married couple living in Gilford, New Hampshire, filed a lawsuit against Eataly Boston for at least $50,000 after Alice allegedly slipped and fell on a piece of prosciutto while walking over to an area where free samples were being offered on Oct. 7, 2022, according to court documents. According to the suit: Alice's left ankle was fractured because of the smoked ham incident and she ex…
Suffolk NY
Police & Fire
Greenlawn Hit-Run Seriously Injures Young Man: Police
A Long Island man was walking in the early hours of the morning when a driver hit him and fled the scene, leaving him with serious injuries, police said. On Thursday, May 4 at around 5 a.m., 24-year-old William Thomas was walking northbound in the roadway of Park Avenue in Greenlawn, according to the Suffolk County Police Department. Thomas, a resident of Huntington, was near Hofstra Drive when a vehicle struck him and drove away. He was reportedly taken to Huntington Hospital by Greenlawn Rescue for treatment of his serious injuries. Officers are asking that anyone with information a…
North Passaic
News
Two NJ Residents Burned By Dunkin': Suits
Two separate lawsuits have been filed against the Dunkin' franchises by New Jersey residents claiming they suffered severe burns from the store's mishandling of hot beverages. In February, Darryn Stewart, a Passaic resident, filed a lawsuit in Superior Court in Passaic County against the Dunkin' in Clifton claiming the staff was reckless, careless and negligent in failing to secure his hot beverage in a takeout tray and failing to properly the secure the tops of the containers when he visited Dunkin' in Sept. 2021. Stewart suffered severe burns that required medical and hospital care, accor…
Hudson
News
Flo Rida's Son In ICU After 5-Story Fall From Jersey City Window, Mom Taking Legal Action
The mother of rapper Flo Rida's 6-year-old disabled son is taking legal action after the boy fell five stories from a window of their Jersey City building earlier this month, leaving him seriously injured. Alexis Adams claims building management was negligent and careless and did not install size guards on windows, causing her son, Zohar Dillard, to fall out onto the pavement below, according to court documents filed by Steven P. Haddad, of the Haddad law firm. Zohar DillardSteven P. Haddad Zohar, who was diagnosed with autism and a brain condition, suffered a shattered pelvis, left met…
Lewisboro
News
Gwyneth Paltrow Sued: Former Waccabuc Resident Was In Skiing Accident, Report Says
Former Northern Westchester resident Gwyneth Paltrow is being sued by a man who claims that she seriously injured him in a skiing accident, according to a report by BBC. Paltrow, who once lived in the Lewisboro hamlet of Waccabuc, made an appearance in a US court on Tuesday, March 21 as the trial over the claims begins, the news outlet reported. The incident in question happened in February 2016 at the Deer Valley resort in Utah, where Paltrow, age 50, was on vacation with her family. While skiing, Paltrow allegedly crashed into retired optometrist Terry Sa…
Essex MA
Police & Fire
Ceiling Collapse Hospitalizes Deli Customer At Middleton Market Basket
A box fell through the ceiling of a Market Basket, striking and injuring a person waiting in the deli line. Firefighters received a call around 9:40 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 31 reporting a person injured from a ceiling collapse of the Market Basket located at 230 South Main Street, Middleton Fire Department confirmed to Daily Voice. Middleton is responding to Market Basket after reports of a ceiling collapse onto a customer in the deli line.  Posted by Boston’s Wicked North Shore on Tuesday, January 31, 2023 A box of materials fell through the ceiling tiles and struck one person, deliv…
Morris
News
Dunkin' Customer Burned By Hot Coffee Cites Careless Morris County Workers In Lawsuit
Another New Jersey Dunkin’ Donuts shop is being sued by a customer claiming to have suffered permanent injuries after being burned by a hot cup of coffee. William E. Williams, of Hanover Township, visited the Morris Plains location on Speedwell Avenue and was served in a “negligent and careless manner” on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021, says the case, filed in Morris County Superior Court in December. “[The workers] failed to properly secure the lid of the coffee served” to Williams, the complaint says. They also “served coffee at a temperature that was excessively hot, failed to provide proper wa…
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock
Police & Fire
14-Year-Old Bicyclist Shatters Mini Cooper Windshield In Glen Rock Crash
A 14-year-old boy was seriously injured after somehow ending up on the windshield of a car he collided with in Glen Rock Wednesday, Dec. 28, police and witnesses said. Photos from the 1 p.m. scene at Delmar Avenue and Pinelynn Road show a Mini Cooper with a shattered windshield. The boy was rushed to Hackensack University Medical Center with serious injuries by Glen Rock Volunteer Ambulance Corps. The driver of the Mini Cooper was not injured. The accident remains under investigation. Anyone who witnessed that accident is asked to contact Det. Sgt. James Calaski at 201-670-3948.…
Middlesex MA
Police & Fire
Winchester Spa Owner, Mom Bed-Ridden After Hit By Car Just Before Christmas
A local spa owner and mother will be out of work for several weeks after she was the victim of a hit-and-run in Winchester just before Christmas. Kathy Auciello was injured in the crash that happened near the intersection of Main and Vine Streets around 8:45 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 22, WCVB reports. According to a Facebook post from her husband Lou, Kathy was walking to her car when she was hit. "She was crossing main street in the cross walk between the hardware store and Mobile gas station," he said. "The driver took off heading towards Woburn while she lied in the middle of the street …
Monmouth
News
$2.75 Million Settlement Reached In Renowned Late Crabber's Fall From Jersey Shore Dock
The family of a popular Monmouth County crabber who died after falling through a dilapidated dock is reportedly receiving a $2.75 million settlement. Patrick Shopp of Port Monmouth was walking along the dock at the Belford Seafood Co-Op in early 2020 when a broken board dropped him six feet onto the deck of his boat, according to The New Jersey Law Journal. He suffered a perforated colon, among other injuries, which required various surgeries over the following 15 months, the law journal reported. Shopp, considered one of the Bayshore’s best crabbers, reportedly died of complications at Ri…
Cresskill-Closter
News
New Details Disclosed By Lawyer In Route 9W Road-Rage Crash That Critically Injured Teens
A volunteer firefighter accused in a road-rage crash that nearly killed a group of fellow Bergen County teens not only returned to the scene as a responder but actively participated in the recovery effort, a personal injury lawyer said in announcing a massive lawsuit. Luke G. Stein, 18, of Cresskill, “helped carry one of the stretchers away from the wreck” off southbound Route 9W in Alpine earlier this month, Samuel L. Davis told reporters during a news conference at his Teaneck office on Thursday, Oct. 27. It was perhaps one of the “most twisted and cynical” things that he’d ever heard an…
Norfolk
Police & Fire
IDs Released For Duo Killed In Multi-Vehicle Crash On I-495 In Mansfield
Authorities have identified the two people killed in an early morning multi-vehicle crash in Mansfield as Crystal Blake, age 32, of Dorchester, and Roland Roberge, age 27, of Norton. Crews responded to the crash on I-495 south just after the South Main Street bridge in Mansfield just before 4 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, Mansfield Fire said on Facebook. Upon arrival, police found three vehicles in the right breakdown lane and two vehicles in the center median, according to Massachusetts State Police. Blake and Roberge were pronounced dead on arrival both inside their respect…
Bucks
News
Football Fans Hurt In Railing Collapse At Eagles V. Commanders Game File Lawsuit
A handful of football fans are suing the Washington Commanders over a railing collapse that injured them after a game against the Philadelphia Eagles in January 2021, as reported by various news outlets. Quarterback Jalen Hurts was greeting fans when a railing collapsed, injuring multiple spectators including several from New Jersey who fell between five and 10 feet onto concrete at FedEx Field. Four of the individuals who were hurt in the incident are suing the Commanders for gross negligence, seeking $300,000 to compensate for their physical and emotional pain, ESPN says. Soon after the …
Baltimore
Police & Fire
Person Suffers Major Trauma At Baltimore Fire Rescue Academy (
Developing
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A woman is reportedly injured after falling 20 feet at the Baltimore County Fire Rescue Academy, authorities say. The 30-year-old victim allegedly has an "obvious deformity" to their left arm after the fall that occurred around 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 30 at the academy located at 1545 Sparrows Point Boulevard, according to a Baltimore Metro News spokesperson. SPARROWS POINT | #BALTIMORE COUNTY | *MAJOR TRAUMA* | 1545 SPARROWS POINT BLVD @ FIRE RESCUE ACADEMY | 30YOF PRI-2C | FELL 20FT | OBVIOUS DEFORMITY TO LEFT ARM & HELMET CRACKED | TRANSPORTED TO SHOCK TRAUMA #BREAKING #BCoFD — …
Suffolk NY
Police & Fire
1 Injured, Building Evacuated After Oven Explodes In Calverton
One person suffered injuries when an oven exploded at a Long Island building. The incident happened at Stony Brook University's Food Business Incubator at Calverton on Wednesday, Aug. 10, according to the Riverhead Town Police Department. Police were called to the building, located at 4603 Middle Country Road in Calverton, at about 9 a.m. for a fire investigation, authorities said. The person who suffered injuries was treated for a laceration to the head and other potential injuries, and she was taken to a hospital for treatment, police said. Other people were also evacuated from the…
Orangetown
Police & Fire
New Details Emerge After Wrong-Way Blauvelt Crash Leaving Two Boys In Critical Condition
New details have emerged after a wrong-crash crash left two boys in critical condition in the Hudson Valley. The crash took place in Rockland County in Blauvelt around 12:35 p.m., Saturday, July 30 at the intersection of Route 303 and Greenbush Road. A 2001 BMW X5 driven by Thomas Robb, age 20, of Harlow, the United Kingdom, was traveling the wrong way in a southerly direction on a one-way section of Greenbush Road, said Capt. Michael Shannon, of the Orangetown Police Department. Earlier report: 2 Children In Critical Condition After Wrong-Way Crash In Hudson V…
Mt. Kisco
Police & Fire
Man Nabbed For Mount Kisco Hit-Run Crash That Injures Woman
A man was nabbed after he struck a pedestrian with a van he was driving and fled from the scene in the area, authorities said. The incident occurred in Northern Westchester at 8:15 a.m., Friday, July 22 in Mount Kisco, at Main Street and Bedford Road (Route 117). The woman who was crossing the street in front of Northern Westchester Hospital Center was struck by a white van, which immediately turned on to South Bedford Road and fled eastbound into Bedford, said Kieran O'Leary, spokesman for the Westchester County Police. The pedestrian suffered a head injury and was aided at the scene…
Mahwah-Ramsey
News
Driver Who Exited Vehicle On Route 287 Seriously Injured In Chain-Reaction Crash: State Police
A driver was struck by his own vehicle in a chain-reaction crash after he got out in the middle of Route 287 in the middle of the night, authorities said. Investigators don't yet know why the victim's Chevy Camaro was stopped in the middle of the southbound highway near mile marker 63.6 in Mahwah shortly after 2:30 a.m. Thursday, New Jersey State Police Sgt. Philip Curry said. What they do know is that the driver got out and a Kenworth dump truck rear-ended the Camaro, which then hit him, Curry said. The Camaro continued off the road into a tree, the sergeant said. A medical chopper was r…
Nassau
Police & Fire
Rolled Box Truck In Hewlett Leaves Man Severely Injured
A man is severely injured after a rollover crash involving a box truck on Long Island. The man was driving the truck in Hewlett near Prospect Avenue and Lakeview Drive on Tuesday afternoon, May 10, when he struck three parked cars and a tree before rolling the truck, Nassau County Police said. When emergency crews arrived they found the truck lying on its passenger side with the driver trapped inside. He had suffered severe injuries to his legs, with one leg stuck in the truck’s firewall, police said. Fire crews had to use multiple heavy duty tools to free the man from the truck, which h…
Union
Police & Fire
Victim Of
Gta-o
bsessed Driver's Elizabeth Road Rage Attack Suffered Laundry List Of Injuries
The 23-year-old woman intentionally run over twice by a Grand Theft Auto-crazed driver remains in critical condition and apparently won't be covered by insurance. Morgan Scott was taking pictures of a fender bender involving 56-year-old Vincent Jean last week in Elizabeth, when he charged at her in his Mitsubishi SUV and ran her over on a lawn on Wednesday, April 13, as she desperately tried running away, authorities previously said. Footage shows Jean backing up over her again, leaving her with a broken femur, lacerated liver, broken ribs, severe back injuries, deep gashes over 60 percent…
Rutherford
News
Pickup Plows Into East Rutherford Restaurant
A pickup truck lived up to its name when it rammed through the wall of an East Rutherford restaurant as the dawn of the new year approached. The Dodge Ram went straight through the wall facing the parking lot of Al Di La, a restaurant and banquet hall on Hoboken Road between Paterson Avenue and Enoch Street, around 2:30 a.m. Saturday. The 71-year-old driver was hospitalized with head pain, Deputy Police Chief Phillip Taormina said. The driver told police he was trying to park when the brakes failed, Taormina said. The truck then hit a parking bumper and plowed into the eatery. Nick's Tow…
Lancaster
Police & Fire
Helicopter Crashes At Lancaster Airport
One person was injured in a helicopter crash at Lancaster Airport Saturday morning, county dispatch told local news outlets. A K-Copters 47G-2 helicopter crashed at Lititz airport, at 11:30 a.m., according to the FAA. Two people were on board. One person was able to escape while another was injured, and transported to a local hospital, abc27 says. The nature of the injuries were not clear. Manheim police reported to the scene, which had been cleared as of 1:30 p.m. The FAA was investigating.
Hackensack
News
Locked
OUT: Drunken Bogota Man Falls, Breaks Leg Trying To Reach Upstairs Window
An intoxicated Bogota man who locked himself out of his garden apartment fell and was severely injured trying to climb a fire escape to his window, authorities said. Unable to get in, the 51-year-old victim got two stories up before falling outside the apartment complex on West Fort Lee Road, near River Road, around 10 p.m. Tuesday, they said. An ambulance from Holy Name Medical Center took him to the Hackensack University Medical Center trauma unit with a broken leg and head injury, responders said.
Chester
Police & Fire
West Chester Lawyer Facing Up To 23 Years In Prison For Accepting Payments For Incomplete Work
A West Chester lawyer and New Jersey native was sentenced to up to 23 years in prison for stealing money from his clients for incomplete work and using the identities of his ex-wife and former mother-in-law to open credit cards and take out loans, authorities announced. Joshua Janis, 40, worked as a lawyer for a West Chester law firm in 2013, and when it was discovered he was stealing money from the firm and its clients, he was fired, according to District Attorney Deb Ryan. He then started his own law practice, where he repeatedly accepted payments from clients for legal work he …
Briarcliff
News
$150M Lawsuit Filed In Hit-Run Death Of Nicki Minaj's Father
The hit-and-run driver who struck and killed pop star Nicki Minaj’s father may have more than just time behind bars to worry about. Personal injury attorneys Ben Crump and Paul J. Napoli have filed the lawsuit in the New York Supreme Court for $150 million on behalf of his wife following the death of Robert Maraj on Friday, Feb. 12 on Long Island. Nassau County Police said that the 64-year-old Maraj was walking on Roslyn Road in Mineola near the intersection of Raff Avenue at approximately 6:15 p.m. on Feb. 12 when he was struck by Mineola resident Charles Polevich. Earlier story - …
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