But when the seat of her scooter collapsed on December 6, 2009 while she was in the trash room of her apartment building, Sorenson was not able to pull herself up because of her muscle impairment and she died as the result of a defective seat on her scooter. Her daughter, Kirsten Sorenson, and a…

The Missouri Highway Patrol reported that on Thursday a Stella girl sustained injuries in a one-vehicle accident around 8:25 a.m. on Beaver Road two miles west of Longview in McDonald County. Richard A. Tanner, 41, of Stella, was driving the car and Ashlyn B. Tanner, 9, was a passenger. The car was southbound but ran…

A class action lawsuit, alleging that LG Electronics USA Inc. and Sears Holdings Corp. sold defective washing machines has been filed in California. The lawsuit alleges that the washing machines that were manufactured and sold were not accurately represented. They were touted as being “high efficiency” machines, featuring extra high spin speeds of 1,050, to…