The state Court of Appeals has upheld a King County jury verdict that awarded $12.75 million to a former Seattle firefighter who was injured in an on-duty fall in 2003. Tuesday's ruling is the second time a court has upheld the October 2009 judgment by a Superior Court jury that found Mark Jones was left permanently disabled after falling through a fire-station pole hole.
- PUB DATE: 2/22/2012 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: seattle times

A better, safer emergency treatment for potentially fatal seizure victims has been found, according to a federal study that involved the University of Arizona Emergency Medicine Research Center and the Glendale Fire Department. The National Institutes of Health announced today the results of a two-year study involving the drugs administered by emergency personnel to seizure victims showing that an alternate drug, given by intramuscular injection, is faster and is a more effective way to stop a prolonged seizure lasting longer than five minutes.
- PUB DATE: 2/22/2012 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: uanews.com

PHOTO: Vice President Biden met with law enforcement officials, firefighters and public safety groups in the Roosevelt Room and spoke to a couple hundred more first responders by telephone to thank them for their service and to discuss the new nationwide public-safety broadband network included in the Payroll Tax Extension legislation.
- PUB DATE: 2/22/2012 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: whitehouse.gov

Bergen County officials say a young man was motivated by his hatred of Jews and apparently acted alone.

The Senator, a huge 3,500-year-old bald cypress, burned and collapsed in a Florida swamp after a suspected lightning strike — although arson remains a possibility.

The authorities in Bergen County, N.J., believe the attack may be linked to the firebombing of a synagogue in Paramus last week.

Police say two suspects were able to enter a Danbury home because they had a key.

A clerk was attacked and robbed in Wolcott a day after a similar scene played out in Meriden.

Two people were stabbed during a fight at a Derby bar Wednesday morning.