Golden Glades Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, a Miami Gardens nursing home, will close its 60-bed children’s unit after years of harsh criticism. The facility stands at the center of a bitter dispute over Florida’s system of care for extremely sick and disabled children. In recent years, it has been linked…
State Senator Maria Sachs of Delray Beach vows that the Florida legislature will put an end to texting and talking on cellphones while driving. Sachs believes the bill outlawing the use of cellphones while driving will receive support from Democrats and Republicans alike in the upcoming spring session. “I don’t…
Early Monday morning three lives intersected, leading to the death of one and the arrest of another, after a tragic hit-and-run accident in Miami Beach. It was before dawn when 49-year-old Stefano Riccioletti began his walk to work. He was the executive chef at Terrazza at Shore Club. Karlie Tomica,…
Friday a jury in Los Angeles heard opening statements in a fraud and negligence lawsuit that alleges Johnson & Johnson knowingly marketed a false hip implant that left thousands with severe complications or in need of replacement surgery. The all-metal ball-and-socket hip joint was pulled from the market two years…
One year after one of the worst highway tragedies in Florida’s history, the state has taken some safety measures and plans to take more, while families of those injured and killed filed notice that they plan to file negligence lawsuits against the state. On January 29, 2012, the stretch of…
A Washington woman continues to suffer from the effects of a devastating car accident that occurred over two months ago. Fifty-one-year-old Terri Cantor was within minutes of arriving at work on the morning of November 15 when Johnothon Bagley, twenty-seven, crossed the center line on a residential road in Lowell,…
One person is dead and another critically injured after a string of 15 crashes occurred in two suburban Atlanta counties Wednesday night. Michael O. Snider of Stone Mountain, Georgia was arrested on charges of drunken driving and vehicular homicide. The 70-year-old driver is suspected of causing five automobile crashes in…
Fort Lauderdale commissioners are in the process of deciding whether to place red-light cameras at an additional eight intersections throughout the city in an effort to not only catch more drivers running red lights, but also to hopefully decrease the number of automobile accidents. In 2010, the city placed red-light…
Police delay has further complicated the investigation into the death of the Associate Dean at Fort Lauderdale’s Keiser University. Last Wednesday, 39-year-old Elias Konwufine died at Broward Health Medical Center within hours of being run over by his own vehicle as a tow truck driver attempted to remove it from…
A1A remains one of the deadliest stretches of road in South Florida. On Wednesday night, two motorists were injured and one died in two separate crashes along A1A. In the first accident, an elderly couple was walking down South Ocean Drive around 6:30 p.m. As they attempted to cross the…