Tomorrow evening, Anthony Purcell and his mother, Micki, who have co-founding the non-profit Walking With Anthony, are hosting a fund raiser for spinal cord victims. Anthony, 24, became paralyzed in February 2010 while vacating in Florida with his family. Anthony dove into the water off South Beach and crashed head…
In the early morning hours of April 21, 2007, David Mills and a friend got into a debate so heated that police were called. Police tried to restrain the men, but Mills began kicking, punching and biting the officers. As Mills became more violent and aggressive, officers used their Taser…
In 2010, Alex Palermo was severely injured while aboard a school bus that was driving him home from his Boca Raton Middle School. Alex, then thirteen years old, was hit in the head repeatedly in rapid succession while the other students on the bus watched. Prior to the attack, other…
Earlier this year Kathleen Miskell died while on a parasailing trip after her harness gave way and she feel over 150 feet into the ocean. Since her death, many have called for more oversight of the parasailing industry. As a result of her accident, the National Transportation Safety Board has…
Over the weekend, a robbery chase turned deadly, leaving a man, woman and an infant dead. A Jefferson County deputy was taken to the hospital after he was injured in the crash. The suspects were speeding down Birmingport Road after committing a robbery in Walker County and were being chased…
Lauderhill police shot Earl D. Brown, a night watchman at International Global Metals recycling center, early this morning around 2:00 a.m. Police were called to the recycling center to investigate reports of an intruder on the premises. Brown, who has worked at the recycling center for more than twenty-five years,…
Janira Calderin lost part of the index finger on her right hand and the top of her middle and fingers on her left hand, suffered a head wound and another bullet injury to the top of her left foot when she was shot five times by federal agents as they…
Earlier this week a former radiology technician was sentenced to thirty years in federal prison after he admitted to infecting patients with Hepatitis C. While working as a technician at the Mayo Clinic’s Interventional Radiology Unity, Steven Beumel stole syringes of the painkiller Fentantyl and replaced them with “syringes of…
An Arkansas police officer, Officer Josh Hastings, has been officially charged with felony manslaughter after he fatally shot a fifteen-year-old Bobby Moore Jr. Investigators determined that the account Hastings offered regarding the accident did not match up with the evidence recovered at the scene. Hastings was responding to a suspicious…
“You have more freedom in prison and at least there you know when you are getting out,” says one disability advocate in regards to Florida’s Institute for Neurologic Rehabilitation (FINR), one of the largest rehabilitation centers for brain injured patients in the country. Over the past decade, hundreds of reports…