A wrongful death lawsuit brought by the widower of late jogger Maureen Mengelt was settled, with the case dismissed, according to a recent news report. The suit was filed against drunk driver and former Lutheran Bishop, Bruce Burnside, among others. Mengelt was killed in April of 2013 when Burnside drunkenly…
Earlier this year, several northern Illinois news outlets reported the death of a Fairdale man in a freak forklift accident at Fastenal’s Belvidere facility. According to a Rockford Register Star report, shortly after 11am 36-year-old Chris Thick drove his forklift onto a flatbed truck and parked it. When Thick got…
A Channel 13 WREX news report states a local construction worker was fatally killed in a work zone crash, according to Illinois state police. The fatal crash, which is still under investigation by local law enforcement, occurred when a Mack dump truck was backing up eastbound on the I-88 construction…
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