A St. Louis roofer was severely burned during a job-siteaccident when he fell into a kettle filled with hot tar. The 66-year-old man was repairing a roof in University City when the accident occurred. According to the victim’s wife, her husband and son were finishing roofing work when he fell off the roof and…
A Tennessee woman appeared in court on Monday for charges in a deadlyhit-and-run in Smyrna. The 25-year-old woman is charged with leaving the scene of a deadly auto accident. On Monday, the Smyrna judge bound the case over to the grand jury after the preliminary hearing. Traffic investigators with the Smyrna Police Department and…
Elevated levels of lead have been found coming from some faucets and fountains in 32 buildings in theSt. Louis Public Schools District. Testing was conducted at all 72 school buildings and 797 water sources were examined. The test revealed 45 sources are exceeding the EPA’s guideline of 20 parts per billion of lead. An…
According to a recent study, trampoline parkinjuries are on the rise across the country. Another injury at a St. Louis area trampoline park only highlighting these dangers of trampolines. According to researchers, data collected from emergency room visits reveals trampoline type accidents have increased from 600 in 2010 to 7,000 in 2014. The study…
An Illinois man is dead after asemi-truck crash that police believe was caused by a possible mechanical failure. The fatal accident happened near Glen Carbon on eastbound Interstate 270 on Wednesday. According to police, the 47-year-old truck driver crashed his tractor-tractor just before 9:30 a.m. between Route 157 and Route 159. Police found the…
A Nashvilleschool bus driver has been suspended after a strange and potentially dangerous school bus incident this week. Davidson County school officials are investigating rumors of wrongdoing on the school bus after the driver was an hour late to the school on Tuesday. Officials claim some students were stuck on a bus ride that…
An increase of on thejob fatalities in Tennessee last month has the head of the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration very alarmed. The TOSHA Administrator told a local new station in Tennessee that four of the ten deaths in July were on construction sites. The head of TOSHA claims that all of the…
The Ford Company has issued arecall that will affect more than 91,000 vehicles in North America. The recall is due to a defect in the fuel pump that could stall some Ford vehicles. The Ford models included in the recall are the Taurus, the Lincoln MKS, and the MKT SUV’s. Ford Police Interceptor sedans…
Several St. Charles motorists ended up with minorproperty damage when they drove down a yellow painted street this week. According to the City of St. Charles, the street was turned yellow after a contractor re-painted street stripes right before it rained. The wet yellow paint was smeared all along the entire stretch of street….
A Missouri mother and her young child were tragically killed in a motorvehicle accident yesterday. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports a two-vehicle crash on U.S. 50 near Kingsville in Johnson County, Missouri. Authorities say the northbound 47-year-old driver and her 8-year-old daughter were on their way to school around 7:30 a.m. when they…