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Accident at Pasadena (TX) Shipping Terminal Leaves Worker Dead KXXV-TV has reported that a worker at the Bayport Container Terminal in the Houston suburb of Pasadena. The details of the accident are not yet available, and the following reconstruction is based on news media coverage of the accident. On the morning of Friday, February 21st an unidentified worker at the Bayport Container Terminal was operating a truck known as a “mule” to deliver loaded shipping containers from a warehouse to…

Three Killed in 1-115 Bus Crash A bus operated by a Los Angles County-area Executive Lines, Inc. ran off a rain-slickened section of I-115 in northern San Diego County and overturned late Saturday morning. According to the California Highway Patrol, 3 people were killed and 18 more were injured in the accident whose cause is still under investigation. According to news media sources, the bus had departed the Los Angeles County area earlier Saturday morning and was enroute to Tijuana…

Former Fraternity President Found Guilty of Sexual Assault Ari Goldstein, the former president of the Temple University chapter of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, has been convicted of felonious attempted sexual assault and two related misdemeanor charges following a jury trial in Philadelphia. Goldstein was acquitted of similar charges involving another woman. Both women were also students at Temple when the assaults allegedly occurred inside Goldstein’s room in the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity house on the Temple campus in Philadelphia…

College Campus Parties, Drugs, and Death: “Prescription” Meds Laced with Fentanyl Hit Colleges Nationwide We see fairly frequent media reports about college students being seriously injured and even killed in hazing incidents. Unfortunately, college and university students are exposed to serious risks outside of the Greek system as well. For example, there are college sanctioned events as well as activities sponsored by school approved organizations in which mind-altering substances are available, including a potentially deadly combination of drugs. During the…

Texas State University Suspends Pi Kappa Psi Fraternity for 7 Years Suspension comes after student was brutally assaulted by fraternity members Texas State University has suspended its chapter of the Pi Kappa Psi fraternity for 7 years following an investigation into an October 2019 incident in which a student was attacked and brutally beaten after he was mistaken for a member of a rival fraternity. The suspension comes after the fraternity, its national headquarters, and three fraternity members were named…