In just an instant, a five-year-old Maryland girl lost both of her feet when she walked up behind her father as he mowed the grass with his ride-on lawn tractor in their yard. The horrific accident is a stark reminder of the need for safety around lawn maintenance equipment, especially with spring yard work firmly…

Children darting in front of moving cars, runners out getting a good workout, bicyclists migrating onto the roads after a winter layover and motorcyclists back out on their machines, enjoying the warmer weather as it arrives again – these are sure signs that spring is truly upon us. With that, it’s also a great time…

The investigation is continuing into a horrific SUV crash near the Bronx Zoo in New York that killed seven people from three generations of one family. Now the questions into the crash begin as authorities work to figure out what happened. The family members were traveling south on the Bronx River Parkway next to the…

Finding effective ways to sharply reduce gun violence in our cities is the aim of a national “CeaseFire” program that spread to Philadelphia last July. On “Court Radio” at 7 a.m. tomorrow, Sunday, Marla Davis Bellamy, the director of Ceasefire Philadelphia, the latest of 12 U.S. cities to host the effort, will be our special…

“It is very painful to walk and even to sit upright.”“I get serious cramps along the walls of the vagina. They wake me from sound sleep.”“My bladder has to be flushed every week because I have an ongoing infection.”“I’m afraid the mesh has gone into my organs, the pain is so bad.” These are the…

Imagine buying a life insurance policy to protect your family if something should happen to you, and then imagine that your insurance company fails to notify your beneficiaries that they have money coming to them when you die. That’s what has been happening across the United States when insurers haven’t always been doing all they…