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The body of missing New England commercial fisherman Arthur Brooks, 77, was recovered last week from the York River, reports say. Brooks’ body was spotted by a member of the Marine Police in the following morning. Brooks was discovered nearly a mile from where his fishing boat capsized a day earlier. Sixty-four-year-old Al Madison, another commercial fisherman on the same capsized boat, was found March the following day. Rescue teams had been combing the water for the first days in…

An ironworker’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the company they say contributed to their ironworker son’s death last month. While working on a construction project at a water reclamation plant, Jose Meza, an ironworker employed by Industrial Fence, Inc., when his body harness reportedly snagged on a piece of heavy equipment and he was crushed by the machinery. Meza’s family reportedly sued the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, New Holland North America Inc.- the manufacturer of…

Beachgoers dragged a boogie boarder to safety in Honolulu last month, saving him from drowning when the unidentified youth got himself into trouble while on his board, reports say. The youth was in the water in Hanapepe Place, off China Walls, a popular surf and boogie board location in Honolulu, Hawaii last month. When he got into trouble and lost his board, he floundered in the surf by himself when some swimmers on the beach noticed him.  Going to his…

Two people died in a Washington D.C. bus accident on a company-sponsored outing when the open-air sightseeing bus narrowly cleared an overpass, but the two passengers struck the 11th Street overpass. Joshua Stoll, 24, and Michael Feiock, 35, who recently moved to the area, were with co-workers on a Friday night when the company bus left RFK Stadium to watch the Washington Nationals take on the Houston Astros recently. The bus passed safely under at least one overpass near the…

An early-morning accident has left one man dead and another hospitalized in Central Austin. Reports say an Austin patrol officer came upon the accident just after 2:15 a.m. Monday, finding a car that had crashed into a light pole on Riverside, near I-35. Although both the driver of the car driver and its passenger were both taken to University Medical Center at Brackenridge, the passenger reportedly did not make it, and was pronounced dead at the hospital. Both men had…