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1. New charges brought against former Avon daycare worker - WFSB

   The Avon Police Department encourages any parents with questions or concerns to contact detectives at 860-409-4230, or the Child Abuse Investigation ...

2. Head-on bus crash near a Pentagon stop injures 23 people, including Defense Department workers

   The Omni Ride and Fairfax Connector transit buses struck each other shortly before 7:30 a.m., according to a press release from the Pentagon Force ...

3. Construction workers injured in collapse at New Bedford jobsite - WJAR

   State police said the workers from D.W. White were hurt when three steel-column rebar cages collapsed. The workers were taken to a hospital with ...

4. New Wisconsin Supreme Court Decision Takes a Broad View of Employer Liability for ... - Quarles

   The usual rule that property owners/employers are not liable for injuries to a contractor's employees does not apply to safe place statute claims. The ...

5. Officials: 1 killed, 2 injured in pipeline explosion near Edna | The Victoria Advocate

   ... worker was killed and two others injured during maintenance on a Kinder Morgan pipeline. (Jakob Gurley/Victoria Advocate). EDNA — One person was ...

6. Pizzeria worker stabbed to death by teens on Independence Day after asking them not to ...

   Most of the fatalities have been in the Arab sector; some 14 Jews have been killed. Overnight Thursday-Friday, a 50-year-old man, identified as Majed ...

7. Employees step in after woman chased with knife, stabbed at Kentucky Goodwill - Yahoo

   ... employee injured and another hospitalized. Authorities said the call came in around 1:45 p.m. on Tuesday, April 21, reporting that a woman was ...

8. Boom truck worker thrown from bucket while trying to guide oversize load beneath traffic light

   A boom truck worker was thrown from the bucket while trying to guide an oversize load beneath a traffic light at an intersection on Thursday.

9. Caltrans Honors 195 Fallen Highway Workers at 36th Annual Memorial Ceremony and ...

   The event also emphasized road safety and reaffirmed the department's vision of reaching zero fatalities and serious injuries on state highways by ...

10. DEADLY CRASH: Construction worker struck on Highway 75 near 51st Street - KJRH

    Officials say a construction worker was struck and killed by a dump truck... 82 highway workers died and 39000 people suffered injuries. "When ...