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• Trucker Hits Stray Cow on Highway and Dies. Is anyone at fault?

  Steve Lombardi | November 20, 2009 12:01 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Who’s to blame when a stray cow comes in the path of a moving vehicle? I’m sure that’s just what the family of the driver of a semi trailer is asking today. At about 2:15 a.m. on...

• Where is defensive medicine when you need it?

  Steve Lombardi | November 19, 2009 2:48 PM | 2 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  I wonder if I could die from defensive medicine not being practiced in Iowa. Over the weekend Barbara drove me to the local clinic because I was sick as a dog and coughing so hard my lungs and...

• What happens when a member of your hunting party decides he wants to take “random target practice”?

  Steve Lombardi | November 19, 2009 12:01 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  In this case the death of an 18-year-old from Manchester was caused by accidentally being shot by a member of his own hunting party. These men were hunting on Monday October 19th 2009 about one...

• Man killed in plant explosion, sparks or static electricity?

  Steve Lombardi | November 18, 2009 12:01 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  In Columbia County, Wisconsin a 47 year old man died Sunday October 18th, in an explosion in the American Packaging Corporation plant, according to the Wisconsin State Journal news source. Jeffrey...

• Financial Wrongdoing: Are you a Ponzi victim?

  Steve Lombardi | November 17, 2009 12:01 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  If you think you may be a Ponzi victim, then ask yourself this question: Is this abnormal insecurity? In all of this security is there an overriding sense of insecurity? In college...

• Texas A&M construction site at Zarzamora St. and Loop 410 Ditch Collapse

  Steve Lombardi | November 16, 2009 11:01 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  A 45-year-old construction worker was in a construction site ditch while co-workers were removing a tree. As they pulled the tree out the ditch collapsed trapping the man in the ditch and burying...

• Did Prime-Time Broward County Sheriff's Office Miss the Boat?

  Steve Lombardi | November 16, 2009 12:01 PM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  Remember the post I wrote about the Police Women of Broward County? TLC Goes from Jon & Kate to, “There’s Always A Good Time to Use A Taser”, August 20, 2009 ...

• RRA Cast of Characters - Is Tony Villegas the Wrong Man? (UPDATED: 11/20/09)

  Steve Lombardi | November 14, 2009 8:25 AM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  Have you ever wanted to be a lawyer or FBI investigator? With TV shows like Law & Order, LA Law, Castle and CSI’s being so popular there is probably a little criminal investigation in many...

• Go-Carting Safety and Riding on the Public Streets

  Steve Lombardi | November 13, 2009 10:25 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  On September 04th 2009 14-year-old William Beaulieau and a class mate 15-year-old Jacob Murray were go-carting when the go-cart they were riding in collided with a Ford truck driven by Chad Stange....

• Pedestrian killed by Metrobus in DC, Not an isolated incident

  Steve Lombardi | November 12, 2009 1:40 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  According to the Washington Examiner, Stephanie Richardson, age 47, was killed by a Washington, D.C Metrobus. She was riding the Metrobus on October 5, 2009, when she got off at her stop, began to...