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A freak accident in Bellevue, Iowa left one dead and 23 others injured when two runaway horses pulling a wagon trampled spectators at a small-town Fourth of July parade, reports say.   The horses became spooked and bolted after they tangled with each other. At that point, one of the horses lost its bridle, reports say. The horses then galloped for several blocks with the wagon, trampling some and crashing into others. In addition, the wagon flipped and its two…

Stretching for a foul ball a Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas, a man fell from the second deck into the field level seats. The man fell during the fifth inning of a game between the Cleveland Indians and Texas Rangers last summer. The incident occurred when Texas right fielder Nelson Cruz fouled a ball into the first row of seats along the first-base line. He simply leaned too far off the club level seat and toppled onto the seats below,…

Charges were filed late last month against a suspect in the fatal shooting of a woman at an apartment complex on Dunlap Ave. on Sunday December 19th. Jamal Jones, 24, was charged with criminal negligent homicide, accused in the killing of Felicia Jefferson, 28.  Houston Police and HFD emergency personnel responded to a shooting call at the Dunlap address. When they arrived they found Ms. Jefferson in a bedroom of her parents’ apartment with gunshot wounds to the head. She…

Public groups have been critical of a delay by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that stalled a  recall of the drugs Darvon and Darvocet, reports say. Darvon and Darvocet, which are made with the key ingredient propoxyphene, may be linked to heart problems. Critics say the number of patients injured by the delay by the FDA could number in the thousands, reports say. Propoxyphene is a painkiller. The FDA announced in November of last year that Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals Inc. had…

Reports say hundreds of personal injury attorneys are beginning preliminary preparations toward litigation against makers of Darvon and Darvocet, or Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals Inc.  The drugs, which were manufactured for opoid pain relief, reportedly have a reaction in many users, including life-threatening arrhythmic cardiac events. The product Propoxyphene was first sold as Darvon in the late ’50s, with a newer medicine, Darvocet, a combination drug made with propoxyphene and acetaminophen, now offered as an alternative. But late last year the U.S….