A Connecticut woman, who became paralyzed while sledding at a Waterbury park almost three years ago, has won an $8 million settlement from the city. In 2007, Rose Marie Deschesnes crashed into a metal bench at the bottom of a hill while sledding at Fulton Park. Deschesnes, who is now 24, suffered a spinal cord [...]

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A 47-year-old Texas man, who was sentenced to 40 years in prison in a Dallas courthouse on Tuesday, tried to commit suicide in the courtroom by slashing his throat with a razor. Moments after receiving his sentence, Marcial Anguiano looked at the judge, then repeated the sentence, and then pulled a safety razor from his pocket and [...]

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A Connecticut man pleaded guilty in Westchester, NY on Tuesday to driving while being under the influence in an April accident that sent three people to the hospital and left him in a wheelchair. Ricardo Martinez-Arenas, of Stamford, pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular assault and aggravated driving while intoxicated. Westchester authorities say Martinez-Arenas was drunk when [...]

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A Saudi Arabian judge is under fire for wanting to paralyze a man as a form of punishment for him having paralyzed someone else. According to reports, the judge who heard the case against the convicted man, sent letters to several hospitals asking if they could sever the man’s spinal cord. The accused, who has not [...]

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A state Supreme Court in Washington ruled that a county judge has no First Amendment right to belittle and berate litigants in her courtroom. After receiving numerous complaints last year about King County District Judge Judith Raub Eiler, the state’s Judicial Conduct Commission censured Eiler, and recommended that the state Supreme Court suspend her for [...]

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