An 82-year-old man had the wrong leg amputated during surgery, a hospital in Austria has admitted. The patient was due to have his left leg removed, but the right leg was mistakenly amputated above the knee instead after a hospital worker mistakenly put a preoperative mark on the wrong leg, the Freistadt…

U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS – Four people were killed in a helicopter crash Monday afternoon in the U.S. Virgin Islands. According to the Virgin Islands Emergency Management Agency, a 911 call came in around 3:14 p.m. about a chopper going down in a heavily wooded area in the western end of St….

INDIANAPOLIS (July 1, 2020) – Starting July 1, Indiana will no longer allow drivers to hold a cellphone while driving. Indiana currently has a ban on texting while driving, but law enforcement has found it difficult to enforce. The new Hands-Free Law will ban drivers from holding a cellphone while…

Coronavirus cases in Illinois have reached over 50,000, and experts believe the state might be reaching its peak of cases. However, predictions on the peak and when the state might be able to fully reopen are changing constantly. Case-tracking data provided by the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics…

CHICAGO (April 30, 2020) – Four people were injured when the driver of a sedan crashed into a CTA bus early Thursday in the Loop. Chicago police say the bus driver, two passengers on the bus, and a 29-year-old driver of a black sedan were all injured as a result of…

Tierney Darden takes up new physical hobbies, learns to drive after being paralyzed by collapsed pedestrian shelter in 2015 CHICAGO (November 15, 2019) – Tierney Darden today is a very different person than the Tierney Darden the world became acquainted with back in 2015 when she went from a normal,…

It’s no secret that young people across the country are becoming addicted to vaping. Now, as manufacturers such as Juul face legal action from individuals, school districts are starting to file their own lawsuits. These schools have seen firsthand what the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been…

GURNEE, Ill. (September 13, 2019) – A Gurnee student athlete still has difficulty climbing up stairs after being hospitalized with “severe lung damage” caused by e-cigarettes, his parents say. When 18-year-old Adam Hergenreder first began vaping about a year and a half ago, he was under the impression that e-cigarettes were…

ORLAND PARK, Ill. (August 28, 2019) – A 2-year-old girl was fatally injured at Orland Square Mall Tuesday afternoon when a heavy steel wall fell onto her while she was shopping with her family. According to police, Alexandra Martinez was inside the Orland Square Mall’s Akira store with her grandmother,…