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• "Good Samaritan" Responsible for Hit-and-Run Accident

  Christina Cole | April 05, 2007 3:27 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  A "good Samaritan" who called 911 after stopping to help a 7-year-old girl in a hit-and-run accident last week, was actually the driver that struck her, police said.The man, 24, was arrested on felony charges for being a habitual offender, his conduct following the accident and for filing a false accident report.The girl was riding her toy scooter last Friday across the street from her house...

• Turnpike wants Documents Sealed in Wrongful Death Lawsuit

  Christina Cole | March 25, 2007 3:20 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, citing concern for the public's safety, has asked a state judge to seal documents in the wrongful death suit filed by the family of a Jamaica Plain woman that was killed in July when the Interstate 90 connector tunnel ceiling collapsed.Lawyers for the Turnpike Authority argue the Homeland Security Act allows the agency to withhold certain formation that...

• Woman Killed after being Struck by Three Vehicles

  Christina Cole | March 14, 2007 2:40 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  A woman was killed in a fatal car accident yesterday when she was struck by three vehicles on Interstate 495 in Bellingham, report state police. The woman was traveling north of exit 18 in her Honda when she broke down in the acceleration lane as she was attempting to get on the highway. She exited the car and was hit by a Ford F150 pickup. The impact of being hit knocked her into the left lane...

• Woman Suing Planned Parenthood Over Failed Abortion

  Christina Cole | March 07, 2007 3:14 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  A Boston woman is suing Planned Parenthood and two doctors in a medical malpractice lawsuit that alleges they failed to terminate her pregnancy. In March 2004, she found out she was pregnant and for financial reasons, had decided an abortion was the right decision.A Planned Parenthood doctor botched the procedure, leaving her still pregnant. The lawsuit states a doctor at Boston Medical Center...

• Crash Kills Man; Injures Woman

  Christina Cole | March 01, 2007 2:10 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  A woman suffered serious injuries and a man has died following a car crash on southbound Interstate 495, report State Police. Preliminary investigations show that speed may have been a factor in the crash and that neither occupants of the car were wearing a seat belt.The 2000 Volkswagen was traveling south at 2am when it swerved off the road, crashed with a highway sign and bounced back across...

• Mistrial in Weis' Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

  Christina Cole | February 21, 2007 1:34 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  A mistrial has been declared in Notre Dame Football Coach Charlie Weis' medical malpractice lawsuit after a juror collapses and many doctors - including two of the defendants - rush to help him.The juror started moaning as he was listening to expert testimony in defense of Massachusetts General Hospital Surgeons. Weis's claims surgeons botched his care in June 2002 when he had gastric bypass...

• Trash in Car Caused Crash

  Christina Cole | February 12, 2007 11:27 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  West Yarmouth Police report there was so much trash in the driver's car that some fell onto the gas and brake petals, causing her to lose control of her Ford Focus.While in the midst of losing control of the vehicle, the driver went through a post office parking space, up over the curb and across the freeway before hitting a Ford Explorer and backing over the sidewalk and then hitting a flower...

• Wife Ordered to Pay $3.75 Million over Husband's Death

  Christina Cole | February 04, 2007 12:34 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  A woman that killed her cheating husband by running him down with her car in a jealous rage was ordered to pay $3.75 million to her in-laws on Friday.A jury awarded the sum in a wrongful-death lawsuit filed against Clara Harris.Harris repeatedly ran over her orthodontist husband with her car in 2002 in the parking lot of a hotel after finding him there with his receptionist/mistress. Harris was...

• Man Runs Red Light, One Dead

  Christina Cole | February 01, 2007 7:26 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  A 42-year old man was killed early Thursday when his car was hit by another driver suspected of running a red light.The impact of the car crash, just after 1am, pushed the vehicle driven by the victim into a police cruiser that was stopped at the light.John Converse of Massachusetts, the man that died, leaving Route 8 southbound at exit 7 when his car was broadsided by a car driven east by...

• Assemblyman Disputes Judge's Ruling

  Christina Cole | January 23, 2007 2:24 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  New Jersey Assemblyman Eric Munoz, R-Union, testified against two doctors in a medical malpractice case in Delaware. Although a Judge ruled, he doesn't qualify as an expert witness.Munoz, a trauma surgeon at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, says the judge wrongly questioned his qualifications.Munoz testified as an expert in emergency medicine in the 2004 lawsuit. Delaware...