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MIAMI — A fire alarm company, a security alarm monitoring firm and a swimming pool contractor settled for about $1 million each in the Surfside condominium collapse class-action case, according to a Miami-Dade circuit court filing on Wednesday. In addition, a $50 million settlement from the Champlain Towers South condo association will be shifted from reimbursing unit owners for their ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Attorneys for an autistic teen who was allegedly stunned with a stun gun 17 times by a former Pickens County sheriff’s deputy filed a civil lawsuit against the deputy and the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office Wednesday. A video provided by the Anastopoulo Law Firm shows an officer using a stun gun on Aaron Vasquez, who is non-verbal, on Aug. 20, 2021. The then-17-year-old fell ...
Aug. 10—METHUEN — In response to a May stabbing incident, the School Committee at its Aug. 8 meeting approved the hiring of three building safety monitors whose role will be to patrol every inch of Methuen High School every school day. "These folks are literally going to get 20,000 steps a day," school Superintendent Brandi Kwong told the committee. "We think this will make a huge difference ...
Syracuse, N.Y. — The Syracuse school district will reopen this fall with 40 new school security officers across the district and up to 20 new uniformed police officers. The security officers, who are not armed, will be spread throughout the district. The armed, uniformed officers will be at the elementary, middle and K-8 schools, which previously did not have police officers on site, said ...
LOS ANGELES — Southern California air regulators are investigating several facilities that sterilize medical equipment with a carcinogenic gas after preliminary monitoring confirmed their emissions may pose an elevated cancer risk to people who work nearby. After months of screening for chemical emissions near large commercial sterilizers in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties, the South ...
Aug. 9—Are four former security guards criminally responsible for a Ferndale man dying after being restrained by them at Northland Mall eight years ago? Was the death accidental, as determined by results of an autopsy according to the Oakland County Medical Examiner's Office? Did a health condition, including an enlarged heart, contribute to or ultimately cause the death? Those questions are ...
Ethan Hawke's return to the horror genre, this time in a villainous role, tops the DVD releases for the week of Aug. 16. "The Black Phone": A child kidnapper called The Grabber snatches tween boys from the streets of Denver in the late 1970s in this adaptation of the short story by Joe Hill, son of Stephen King. "There’s been a flood of throwback tween terror on movie screens and streaming ...
Aug. 8—SEN. Christopher Lawrence "Bong" Go hailed the new law strengthening the regulation of private security services as he stressed the role of security guards as frontliners in helping maintain public order. The senator, in a statement on Sunday, lauded the enactment of Republic Act (RA) 11917, or the "Private Security Services Industry Act of 2022" on July 30. It repealed RA 5487. "Just ...
Aug. 8—The National Security Services Company, known as SAFE, celebrated International Security Officers Day for the second year, with a special online training campaign recognizing Saudi security officers who dedicate their lives to maintaining the safety and security of individuals and organizations across the Kingdom. The world celebrates International Security Officers Day on July 24 every ...
Berlin — Emergency services deployed in Berlin aim to move closer to a police explosives disposal site in the Grunewald forest, after several blasts there triggered a large-scale forest fire.The plan is to bring the emergency forces closer to the blasting site and to continue to be active in the forest, where many small fires are still burning, fire brigade spokesperson Mario Witt said on ...