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Police officers often face situations in which they're confronted with decisions about using deadly force. If one of those decisions results in a fatality, their judgment may be questioned and they may even be faced with a wrongful death claim. That happened with a former BART officer who fatally shot a 22-year-old on New Year's Day 2009. The former officer gave testimony with regard to the shooting in a federal court on Wednesday. While on...

Any collision in which injuries are suffered is a tragedy. When the car accident involves a celebrity, the tragedy will make news headlines. This is the case with Tracy Morgan, a successful and popular comedic performer who was seriously injured in a chain-reaction crash. Morgan is most famous for his run on the iconic NBC program, "Saturday Night Live." He played many different characters on that show across a number of years. He was also...

The widow of a man who reportedly died outside of a California Veterans Administration hospital is suing the federal government, claiming that her husband was beaten to death by police. The wrongful death claim relates to an incident that occurred in May 2011, after the man was reportedly brutalized by police working at the VA facility in Loma Linda. Official reports show that the 65-year-old victim waited for four hours at the hospital without being...

A horrific crash near the border between California and Arizona has left four people dead and more than 20 injured after a tour bus collided with a big rig and two other vehicles. Official reports show that the car accident occurred during the early morning hours on May 21, when a semi-truck carrying a load of metal pipes lost control and jackknifed into the median on the 10 Freeway. The crash occurred at about 2...

A California construction worker is dead after falling from a bridge over the 91 Freeway on May 18. The man reportedly fell during the early morning hours as he was participating in demolition activities. Official reports show that the preventable death occurred when a portion of the railroad bridge buckled from beneath the 59-year-old victim. The accident caused traffic to be obstructed in both directions on that road for several hours in the Riverside area....