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About two dozen people were cruising on the New River heading towards the Intercoastal Waterway in Fort Lauderdale on a 41-foot Wellcraft pleasure boat when a large explosion occurred, resulting in a major blaze on the craft. Flames quickly engulfed the boat. When the blast occurred, some of the people were thrown off the boat, others jumped from the watercraft in order to escape the blazing inferno and save their lives. Other boats were on the New River in the…

The Fourth of July holiday should be a time of celebration for family and friends. Such was not the case for Kyle Allen, a 5-year-old boy in Columbus, Ohio. Kyle and his 3-year-old brother were left home alone by their mother for an extended period of time during the afternoon. At some point while they were unattended, the two boys walked over to the neighborhood pool. The pool was approximately a block away from the boys’ home. Evidently the pool…

An automobile pedestrian accident reminiscent of a motion picture occurred over the weekend in Tampa, Florida, during the early morning hours of Sunday, October 11, 2020. A yet to be identified man was crossing West Hillsborough Avenue in Tampa near George Road in Tampa at about 4:00 a.m. The stretch of roadway at which the man was making an attempt to cross is unlight. As the man was attempting to make the crossing, he was struck by an oncoming SUV….

“Textured-Surface” Breast Implants and Cancer Each year thousands of women undergo breast implant surgery for a variety of reasons, with many such implant operations performed following mastectomy for breast cancer. In these operations, a pouch roughly the shape of the patient’s natural breast and containing saline, silicon or some other substance is inserted into the cavity left by the removed breast tissue and the remaining natural skin is over-sewn to recreate the normal size and shape of the breast. Regardless…

On Monday, October 5, in the early afternoon, a partial building collapse occurred at a Harvey Builders construction site for a new Marathon Oil structure in Houston. Three workers were killed in the collapse, one crew member was hospitalized and is reported to be in stable condition. Investigation into the cause of the Harvey Builders collapse has been slow moving because the partly constructed Marathon Oil building was deemed significantly unstable following the collapse of a stairwell. The staircase in…