Beware The Beef!
The JBS Swift Beef Company, located in Greeley, Colorado, has expanded its recall of its beef products because of E coli. contamination fears. The original recall covered 41,000 pounds of products...
The JBS Swift Beef Company, located in Greeley, Colorado, has expanded its recall of its beef products because of E coli. contamination fears. The original recall covered 41,000 pounds of products...
Two separate incidents led to carbon monoxide poisoning in Utah this month in connection with recreation activities. The first resulted from campers using a propane heater to keep them warm during...
As a follow-up to my post on Taser issues last week, Tasers Can Kill And Deployment Policies Are Inconsistent Or Non-Existent, I've come across more information on one way that Tasers can kill. In...
Another person has been killed by a police officer using a Taser; this time it was a man from Utah. Brian Cardall, 32, died after he was tased by a Hurricane police officer on Tuesday. Brian was a...
It is pretty common knowledge that carbon monoxide, often referred to as the silent killer, can cause illness and death in concentrated amounts. Wikipedia describes the science of carbon monoxide...
A gunman, name not yet released, open fired at Westroads Mall in Omaha today. It is reported that he killed eight people and five more are wounded, two of those critically, before taking his own life. Police received a call reporting a shooter about 1:45 p.m. and arrived six minutes later. Most of the victims were inside Von Maur, said Omaha Police spokeswoman Teresa Negron."My knees rocked. I...
Current DNA technology helped police match samples gathered 33 years ago in a murder case to suspect Gerald Walter Hicker. Hicker actually made the initial missing persons report back in 1974. Prosecutors charged Hicker with first-degree felony murder for the death of Barbara Jean Rocky. Barbara was a BYU student and was found shot six times in Cottonwood Canyon March 12, 1974. New DNA...
Dana Blum seeks to hold accountable those involved in the wrongful death of her 14 year old son. Blum hopes that the charges she brings against a Draper youth care facility will bring about changes. McConkie said, "Facilities that care for children need to be properly trained on life saving protocols in order to get children the medical attention they need if a health issue should arise." An...
Inspectors from The Bureau of Land Management stated that there were "serious structural problems" found at the Crandall Canyon Mine in Utah three years before the roof of the mine collapsed and killed nine people in August 2007. But the Labor Department did not know about the problems with the mine until after the collapse and the agency approved mining at the site."This is like the CIA not...
Jim McConkie and Brad Parker have handled numerous wrongful death claims in the State of Utah and hold the record for a jury verdict in this area. Under common law, a dead person cannot bring a suit for the death of a relative. That rule has been overridden by a Utah law which, for example, permits a wife and children to bring a suit for the death of a husband.