Archive for December 2016

Federal investigators say Facebook’s unmanned aircraft crashed while landing because strong winds broke a wing. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said Silicon Valley-based Facebook wants a fleet of high-flying aircraft that can be deployed to send internet signals to remote parts … Source: Claims Journal

Acute fatigue and lack of familiarity with the area likely caused the driver of a work truck to turn onto train tracks where the vehicle and its trailer were struck by a Southern California commuter train, killing the engineer and … Source: Claims Journal

A woman who was one of five people charged in a deadly Indianapolis, Ind., house explosion faces the possibility of up to 50 years in prison when she’s sentenced Tuesday. A Marion County judge heard victim-impact testimony Monday during the … Source: Claims Journal

Cars converted into stretch limousines often lack life-saving safety components such as side-impact air bags, reinforced rollover protection bars and accessible emergency exits, according to a special grand jury that looked into a limousine crash that killed four women leaving … Source: Claims Journal

The former nanny of Pittsburgh Penguins player Chris Kunitz was sentenced Tuesday to five years in federal prison for setting fire to her rental residence and then filing fraudulent insurance claims for the contents. The public defender for Andrea Forsythe, … Source: Claims Journal

Congress has approved $87 million more in federal funds to help West Virginia recover from deadly flooding over the summer, according to state lawmakers. The funding is from the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery … Source: Claims Journal

Federal investigators have concluded that a worker crushed to death by a machine at a Kentucky coal mine wasn’t wearing an emergency shut-off device, and that his managers had not provided a way to securely attach it. Managers at Webster … Source: Claims Journal

Earlier this month, a whistleblower lawsuit verdict against State Farm was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. The high court rejected a challenge filed by State Farm on a lower court decision. The decision, according to Dan Himmelfarb, a Wash. … Source: Claims Journal

Drug wholesalers shipped 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to West Virginia in just six years, a period when 1,728 people fatally overdosed on these two painkillers, according to an investigation by the Charleston Gazette-Mail. That amounts to 433 of … Source: Claims Journal

The U.S. auto safety agency has opened an investigation into complaints that another 1 million Fiat Chrysler vehicles can roll away after the owners shift transmissions into park, a problem similar to the one being blamed in the death of … Source: Claims Journal