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Reports say the YES Academy is being sued by the mother of a son who drowned while attending a summer program. Carnez Boone, a 14-year-old Collingdale, PA boy who had been sent to a residential treatment program in western Pennsylvania, drowned in Stoneboro last summer after jumping off the high dive. Carnez’s mother, Okita Allen, reportedly claims that school counselors pressured Carnez to jump off the high dive during a class trip with the YES Academy, a yearlong residential program…

Awaiting autopsy results in the death of a man at 12303 Bellaire early in December, the Houston Police Department is still investigating the case.   Before his death the male was seen breaking into a vehicle in the parking lot of a shopping center on Bellaire Blvd. With several other friends, the owner of the vehicle forcibly detained the man until officers arrived. The police arrived and took the man into custody. But as the male was being taken into…

Triad Group alcohol swabs, prep pads, and alcohol Swabsticks have been recalled due to concerns of possible contamination. The contamination is from a bacteria called bacillus cereus, which is a bug typically found in food contamination, reports say. Illness will appear within one day of exposure and will typically start with some form of diarrhea. Serious illness and permanent injury are very rare, reports say. Reports say the affected Alcohol Swabs, Alcohol Prep Pads and Alcohol Swabsticks are typically used…

Reports say that according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, cell phone use played a role in 18 percent of all fatal distracted driving crashes. More than three-quarters of teens under 17 have cell phones, and almost 90% of those use texting. Moreover, more than half of those texters use the capability daily, the majority more than 50 texts a day.  Of those, more than a third admitted to texting while driving, reports say. And up to 40% of…

  In the case of Dean v. United States, The Supreme Court ruled recently that an accidental shooting during the commission of a crime will bring the same penalties as intentionally using a firearm during the crime, reports say. An admitted bank robber, Christopher Dean, who was accused of armed robbery of an AmSouth bank in Georgia in 2004, entered the bank with a pistol in his hand. The weapon discharged and shot a hole in the counter. Dean’s robbery…