Four inmates were hospitalized with serious injuries after a fight in a Southern California prison broke out Sunday morning. About 10 to 15 men were involved in the brawl. The most seriously injured were transferred to hospitals, some with puncture and stab wounds, while others were treated at the prison for cuts and bruising. It is not known why the fight was caused.

Brendan O’Rourke, a licensed security guard, charged with 14 counts of attempted murder for opening fire at a San Diego elementary school has a bail set at $10 million. He faces 103 years to life in prison. Due to his gun being jammed, only two girls were shot and both escaped with minor injuries. The bullets miraculously went through and through in their arm area, and he continued to shoot at three boys but...

Authorities say that last Tuesday morning, an embankment caved in on a then unidentified man at a work site in Dakota Dunes, just south of Sioux Falls.  It has since been learned the man was 27 year old Gabe Koenigsfeld of Sioux Falls, who was a high school sports star, and a former South Dakota State football player.  His wife, Stephanie is pregnant with their first child.

According to the medical examiner’s office in Skokie, Illinois, Joseph Patyk was involved in an accident where his clothing became twisted around his neck when working with a machine on the 750 block of North Merrill Street in Park Ridge.  Patyk  was in the hospital for several days, and was pronounced dead at 1:45 pm on Tuesday at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge.  The actual date and time...

In Kingston, NY, County Medical Examiner Dr. Michael Sheran was fired after apparently showing up drunk to the scene of a fatal accident on Sunday.  Ulster County Executive Michael Hein will not tolerate driving drunk, and as a county executive takes the subject extremely seriously.  The NY State Police charged Dr. Sheran with aggravated DWI. Robert Ryan, 48 of Ellenville, was walking on the paved portion...

A 79-year old man was repairing a drainage tile Saturday afternoon when the trench he had dug collapsed, burying him under the dirt.  Emergency crews were called around 8:40 pm when the man’s wife could not reach him, and had her neighbor call 911.  When emergency crews arrived, they found the back hoe still running, and the 7 feet deep trench had collapsed.  The man’s name has not been released, pending...

According to Ossian, Iowa authorities, Patrick O’Shaughnessy was working on a bulldozer when it apparently slipped off the jacks and pinned him.  Although his co-workers used a crane to lift the bulldozer, O’Shaughnessy was pronounced dead at the scene.  O’Shaughnessy had been working on a small bulldozer at Reilly construction in northeast Iowa.

In Fort Smith Arkansas, a former deputy at the Crawford County Detention Center confessed to offering one and a half pounds of coffee to any inmate who assaulted inmate Rex Ritchie.  Michael David Hickey, 21, apparently had been taunted by Ritchie on a previous occasion, in which Ritchie allegedly threw feces at the former deputy.  Rex Ritchie instigated the investigation by writing a letter to the U.S. Attorney’s...

Kelly Osbourne, daughter of famous rocker Ozzy Osbourne, was forced to dance the Paso Doble barefoot on Monday night after the buckle of her shoe got wedged into her foot.  Her partner in the dance routine, Louis Van Amstel, says that Kelly banged her foot on the floor at the end of the routine.  Kelly was taken to the hospital for X-rays and an MRI.  It is thought that she will recover just fine and be able...

For almost three years, San Diego Gas and Electric has been involved in a law suit proclaiming they improperly removed pipes containing asbestos from a 16 acre area in Lemon Grove, just east of Encanto neighborhood, where there were more than nine miles of the underground gas pipelines. In July of this year, a jury convicted SDG&E of one count of making a false statement, and three criminal counts of removing...