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On Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, six people and three companies were charged for their role in the death of construction worker Luis Almonte Sanchez in a 2018 accident. All six defendants plead not guilty to their charges. In September 2018, Sanchez was...
In a bizarre accident, a Peapod grocery delivery truck ran off the road, overturned, and crashed into a Staten Island home around 7:15 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 20. On his way to deliver groceries in the neighborhood of Great Kills, the 55-year-old driver of the...
Trial attorney Ameer Benno taught a continuing legal education (CLE) course on handling unjust conviction cases on Oct. 22, 2019, at the New York State Trial Lawyers Association (NYSTLA). The course was titled "Litigating Unjust Conviction Cases in New York", a...
One person was killed and three were injured shortly after 9 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019 in a tragic boating accident on Long Island. The driver of the boat, 48-year-old Francesco Distefano, was charged with boating while intoxicated. The weekend outing went...
On Monday morning, November 11, 2019, at least four construction workers were injured, one seriously, in a scaffolding collapse accident at 50 Hudson Yards in New York City. Police and FDNY responded to a call received around 7:30 a.m. about an incident in which four...
Saturday, November 9, 2019 marks another tragedy in New York. At around 2:30am, 25-year-old Matt Travis was riding his bicycle in the bike lane at the foot of the Willis Avenue Bridge in East Harlem when a Kenworth dump truck, traveling southbound along First Avenue,...
A construction laborer was severely injured at the Radio Tower & Hotel construction site in Washington Heights, New York on Thursday afternoon, November 7, 2019. The victim was working in a shaft 30 to 40 feet underground when he was harmed in an accident at...
On the morning of Tuesday, October 29, 2019, Frankie Torchia went to work and tragically never returned home. Torchia, a 33-year-old construction worker from Utica, and a coworker were in the process of setting a 30-foot piece of metal on the roof of a four-story...
Two MTA buses collided in East Harlem around 6:20 am on Oct. 31, 2019, at the corner of East 116th Street and Madison Avenue, the New York Post reported. A BxM11 bus rear-ended a BxM10 bus that was stopped at a red light, an MTA spokeswoman said.Another MTA spokesman...
