The case is the first jury verdict in a backlog of several thousand such vaginal mesh injury cases across the United States. A former nurse who endured multiple vaginal mesh implant surgeries which left her with serious pain and ongoing health problems for years has been awarded $11.1 million in damages for her injuries. That…

As the powerful Storm Nemo, which is being called a blizzard as it approaches New England, heads through Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley this weekend, it’s not expected to bring us the same high winds and heavy snows that are forecast for New York City, Boston and further north. But whatever snow, ice, slush and…

The recent mass killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., both rattled the senses of America in 2012. Twenty-six people – 20 first-graders and six teachers and school officials in Newtown, were murdered in the elementary school on Dec. 14 when a troubled 20-year-old man…

In early December 2011, a 53-year-old mother in West Richland, Wash., drove her 9-year-old daughter to a bank with another child so her daughter could deposit her $5 weekly allowance. But as they each got back into the woman’s large, boxy 2006 Cadillac Escalade SUV, the woman saw the neighbor boy sitting in the backseat…

Starting Dec. 24, the fines for underage drinking in Pennsylvania rose from $300 for a first offense to $500, and for subsequent offenses the fine soared to a cool $1,000, all in a new attempt to reduce underage drinking in the Commonwealth. The law, which was passed by the state Legislature and signed by the…

The holidays are here and sadly, alcohol-related vehicle accidents, fueled by holiday parties where drivers drink too much and then get behind the wheel, are already taking their deadly toll on America’s roadways. Four people were killed Dec. 23 in Cincinnati, Ohio, “when a minivan carrying a family leaving a Christmas party went the wrong…