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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 ...
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. 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 ...
Aug. 5—Plainview ISD leadership revisited the topic of school safety on Monday. Specifically, what the school can do to be proactive rather than reactive in terms of preventing any harm to its students. In a regularly scheduled school board meeting, Superintendent H.T Sanchez along with Plainview ISD campus police, went through a required school safety training for the school district ...
Aug. 4—DULUTH — It was a day of fun in the sun at Park Point Beach as beach-goers laid in the sand, played in the water and tested their safety knowledge as part of Duluth Parks and Recreation's beach party and water safety awareness event Wednesday. The event, from noon to 3 p.m. at the Park Point Public Beach House, featured activities, pop-up play equipment, spinning wheel and prizes. "Lake ...
Aug. 4—The Army Corps of Engineers now says there are multiple investigations into the workplace death of a 54-year-old Orofino man at Dworshak Dam. Eric Engle, an Army veteran and employee of the Corps, died of carbon monoxide poisoning on June 29 while operating a gas-powered pressure washer in a tunnel at the dam. The Corps said this week Engle's death has prompted five separate ...
Aug. 3—A recently established federal cyber diplomacy agency could soon get its first official leader. Senators gathered this morning to consider Nate Fick's nomination to lead the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy. The bureau launched in April 2022 as part of the Department of State, and is charged with tackling "national security challenges, economic opportunities, and implications for ...
A man who made fake 911 calls to lure law enforcement officers into an ambush was found dead after opening fire on deputies Wednesday morning, according to Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott. One of the three deputies who responded to the call for help at about 5:30 a.m. was injured in the shooting, Lott said in a news conference. When deputies found the body of 25-year-old Frederick Westfall, ...
A Miami Beach man was taken into custody at his condominium home late Tuesday after police said a surveillance camera caught him grabbing a 25-year-old woman and killing her with one shot to the head in a North Miami-Dade alley. Ron Donaldson, 43, was booked into Miami-Dade Corrections Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center Wednesday morning on a second-degree murder charge. He’s being ...