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Apr

Small plane crashes into grocery store

April 4, 2012

On Monday evening an experimental plane crashed into a Publix grocery store at a Florida shopping center, reports MSNBC.com. Five people were injured with burns as fire shot through the roof and the store.

Moments before the plane hit the roof of the supermarket, calls to 911 said that the single-engine plane showed signs of trouble.

The plane had taken off from DeLand Municipal Airport, and then it suffered engine failure.

The crash occurred at about 7:20 p.m. at the Northgate Shopping Center in the 200 block of International Speedway Boulevard, a half-mile from the DeLand Municipal Airport.

“It was horrific,” said a customer. “When I turned around, I saw the ceiling caving in. Once the tiles were down, there was just pure fire, and then the fire was propelled towards the doors almost to the cash registers.”

The injured include three shoppers and the two people on the plane. The plane’s pilot and passenger suffered critical injuries.

A 20-year-old college student who suffered burns was taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center, where he was in stable condition. Two other shoppers were treated at Florida Hospital DeLand and are expected to be released soon.

The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Safety Transportation Board have been notified and will be investigating.

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25
Jan

Royal Caribbean conference held in Florida, addressed accident

January 25, 2012

Half of Royal Caribbean’s ship captains were in Florida last week for the company‘s annual Fleet Operations leadership conference, according to USA Today.

The international Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Royal Caribbean, one of the world’s largest cruise lines, is calling this month’s Costa Concordia accident “a defining moment in the history of the modern cruise industry.”

He said that the Florida conference gave them “an opportunity to underscore both our excellent 42-year safety record and more importantly to emphasize the imperative of keeping our record intact into the future.”

“We will need the results of the authorities’ investigations to truly understand and respond to all of the implications,” the CEO wrote on his blog. “But we do not need to wait for anyone or anything to underscore the preeminent role of safety in the daily life of every cruise ship and of the industry as a whole.

“We must review [our safety processes] again, especially recruiting, training, guest mustering, and evacuation. We have considered and prepared for very many scenarios. Now we need to broaden the range of scenarios even further.”

The Royal Caribbean CEO is the first top executive of a major line, other than Costa, to speak publicly about the Jan. 13 accident, which resulted in the deaths of at least 15 passengers.

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16
Jan

Gene Hackman hit by motor vehicle while cycling in Florida Keys

January 16, 2012

Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman suffered injuries after being hit by a pickup truck on Saturday afternoon in the Florida Keys, according to the Daily Mail.

The 81-year-old legendary star was struck while riding his bicycle on Islamorada Street, called the Old Highway, in Tavernier, Florida, around 3 p.m.

The truck came up from behind, and the impact knocked Hackman off his bike. He was thrown onto a grassy shoulder, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.

Because he was on an island, he was airlifted to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital on the mainland.

Early reports that Hackman had suffered serious head injuries were dismissed by his spokeswoman.

She said, “Gene Hackman was taken to a hospital for routine tests after being bumped from behind while riding his bike today in the Keys.

“He’s suffered minor bumps and bruises and is already on his way home.”

Hackman was not wearing a helmet.

According to USA Today, the accident was far more startling than life threatening.

The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating. No charges have yet been filed.

During a career that has spanned five decades, Hackman has won two Academy Awards and been nominated for three others.

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23
Nov

$6.5 million settlement reached in Florida sex abuse case

November 23, 2011

After four years of litigating against corporate defendants, Gary T. Iscoe, one of the partners at Steinger, Iscoe, & Green, feels that justice was finally served in a Port St. Lucie sex abuse case.

Since 2007, four young girls had been victimized by a pedophile at Village Green Head Start in Port St. Lucie, Florida. The case was settled last week, and the families of the children were awarded a $6.5 million settlement, according to News CBS12.com.

“I think that they’re relieved. I think that it gives them a little bit of closure,” said attorney for the victims, Neil Anthony of Steinger, Iscoe & Greene.

The pedophile is now in prison serving 20 years for “lewd and lascivious molestation of children.” He was a volunteer grandparent at Head Start.

“He would pick up the children, touch them, stroke them, kiss them and things like that,” said Anthony.

After one of the girls finally told her mother what was going on, the pedophile was arrested.

“The 6.5 million dollar settlement will go a long way to help the victims. It’s going to give the children adequate resources to get the therapy that’s recommended when something like this happens to a child at four and five years old,” said Anthony.

Iscoe said that other attorneys and law firms had told the children’s parents that the defendants were government entities and therefore had sovereign immunity.  But the defendants were private corporations with private insurance.

“Trial by jury in a courtroom before a jury of their peers was the only incentive to bring this case to conclusion,” he stated.

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Oct

Police Say Florida Teen Not Involved in Case of Abused Disabled Adults

October 21, 2011

A 15-year-old girl who had been missing from West Palm Beach, Florida, since July turned up last week in the Philadelphia home where four mentally disabled adults were found locked in a squalid basement.

According to The Palm Beach Post, the missing girl had been living near the home in an apartment with the teenage son of two of the alleged abductors. In addition, six more juveniles and four adults — none of them disabled — were found at another location in connection with the abductors.

Police say that neither the Florida girl nor the abductors’ son will be charged with the alleged crimes against the four mentally disabled. Instead three adults are being charged with stealing the Social Security Disability checks of the disabled, among other crimes.

Two of the alleged abductors lived in a home in northern West Palm Beach for most of last year, though they also moved through Texas and Virginia before coming to Pennsylvania.

Each day more details surface about the abductors and the mentally challenged adults who they abused. Most recently, Reuters reports that the 51-year-old female ringleader of the scheme had been diagnosed as retarded and schizophrenic and was once convicted of third-degree murder for starving a man who she held captive in her closet for three months.

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