Family of Woman Killed in Big Dig Collapse to Get $6 Million Settlement
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BOSTON -- The family of a woman killed when the ceiling of a Big Dig tunnel collapsed on her car last year has agreed to a $6 million settlement with the company that supplied the epoxy blamed for the accident, a lawyer said Monday.
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At least 12 tons of concrete collapsed onto a car in a Big Dig tunnel, fatally crushing a passenger and prompting renewed scrutiny Tuesday of a troubled highway project that is already the costliest in U.S. history. The state attorney general said he plans to treat the site as a crime scene that could lead to negligent homicide charges.
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Families of victims of a deadly nursing home fire last year settled 28 of 32 lawsuits against the company that owned the facility, lawyers announced Thursday.
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Discovery of Native American burial ground halts multimillion-dollar repair project in Washington State.
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The investigations into the death of Princess Diana have cost over Â£6m of public money, it emerges.
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Consolidated Edison has agreed to pay the family of a woman who was electrocuted on a city street more than $6.2 million and to set up a $1 million scholarship fund in her name.
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Powers Fasteners Inc., which supplied epoxy for the Big Dig highway project in Boston, pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter in a tunnel ceiling collapse last year that killed a woman.
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A U.S. judge on Wednesday approved a  &#36;6.6 billion civil settlement by three banks accused by Enron  Corp.  shareholders of helping the company hide  financial misdeeds that led to its collapse.
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The US government has agreed to settle a lawsuit with tens of thousands of Hungarian Holocaust survivors over a trainload of gold, jewellery and other property seized
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The family of a couple killed in a car crash fight plans to exhume them after claims they are in a reserved grave.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - Rescuers dug the bodies of six  members of one family -- a couple and their four children --  out of the rubble of an Iraqi house bombed by U.S. warplanes on  Wednesday, witnesses said.
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More than a dozen family members of miners killed in a southeastern Kentucky mine explosion protested a closed-door hearing Wednesday held by state officials investigating the blast.
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The coal mine where five miners were killed in an explosion last spring in eastern Kentucky has been sealed and the mine abandoned, federal regulators said.
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Six people have died and 23 survivors rescued after becoming trapped in an underground shaft on the Spanish island of Tenerife, local officials said.
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The owner of four power plants in the Washington region agreed to reduce air-polluting emissions substantially in the next six years and to pay a $500,000 fine, according to a settlement
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Cost to British taxpayer of investigating claims that Diana, Princess of Wales, was murdered have reached an estimated Â£6m
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The family of a woman who died while taking an experimental AIDS drug has filed a negligence lawsuit seeking $10 million in damages.