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The article discusses the decision by a Japanese court to acquit three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco) who had been accused of criminal negligence related to the meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The court acquitted Tsunehisa Katsumata, Sakae Muto and Ichiro Takekuro for their roles in the meltdown. The ruling has cleared the company of criminal liability.

The article reports on the October 2018 traffic collision involving 2001 Ford Excursion stretch limousine in Schoharie, New York. Topics discussed include the arrest of limousine rental company owner Nauman Hussain for criminally negligent homicide, the death of 20 individuals from the accident, and brief profiles of the limousine crash victims, namely Brian Hough, Amanda Rivenburg, and Allison King.

The article reports on the decision of a grand jury in Ontario County, New York not to indict with criminal charges against American race car driver Tony Stewart over the death of driver Kevin Ward Jr. who was hit by Stewart's car during a confrontation at a dirt-track race on August 9, 2014. It notes the absence of an evidence to support a charge of second degree manslaughter or criminal negligent homicide. The decision was reiterated by county district attorney R. Michael Tantillo.

The author reflects on the moral obligation of the American government to the accidental bombing of the Doctors Without Borders hospital by an American military gunship in Kunduz, Afghanistan in October 2015.

The article reports that Tafari James, an eight-year-old boy, has been charged with criminally negligent homicide in the death of Amber Sadiq, also eight years old. James released a school bus' emergency break in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in New York City on May 22, 2006. Sadiq was crushed between the rolling bus and a street pole. A description of the hearing held on May 23, 2006 is included.

The article reports on the arraignment of David Maldanado, who described the deaths of his two boys in his Yonkers apartment as an accident that was set in motion by a drug addiction gone out of control. Elijaha, nearly three, and David Jr., 20 months, were found in blistering hot water. The autopsy said they had died of second-and third-degree burns. Maldonado was charged with two counts of manslaughter while the mother, Luz Arroyo, was charged with criminally negligent homicide. Both pleaded not guilty. County records and interviews with officials depict a troubled family with a history of child neglect.

The article reports on the criminal negligence charges given to freight railroad operator Montreal Maine & Atlantic Railway Inc. and three of its employees in connection with the derailment in July 2013 that killed 47 people and incinerated much of downtown Lac-Mégantic, Quebec.

The article reports on the criminal charges for unpardonable negligence that must be imparted to the owner of Tazreen Fashions factory in Bangladesh wherein a fire killed 112 people. According to an official, Main Uddin Khandaker, the factory owner, Delowar Hossain, cannot be indemnified from the death of large numbers of workers from the fire. According to Scott Nova of the Worker Rights Consortium, the unsafe nature of the factory is the primary contributors to the death toll.

The article reports that Elizabeth Derko, the mother of a boy mauled to death in a wild African dog exhibit at the Pittsburgh Zoo, will not be charged.

Investigators will look for evidence of criminal negligence in the rubble at a Middletown, Conn., power plant that exploded on Sunday, killing five people, officials said Monday. Mayor Sebastian N. Giuliano of Middletown said a search warrant had been issued that gave the local police the authority to comb through the wreckage for signs of what caused the blast at the $985 million plant, which was under construction. And Gov. M. Jodi Rell said she was setting up two panels: one to also investigate the cause, the other to review the state's safety codes and recommend changes if needed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Michael Bryant, the former attorney general of Ontario, said Wednesday that he was not guilty of criminal charges related to the death of a bicycle courier in downtown Toronto. On Tuesday, the Toronto police charged Mr. Bryant with criminal negligence causing death and dangerous driving causing death. On Monday night a motorist driving at high speed on the wrong side of a shopping street smashed a man clinging to his car into several objects. The man, Darcy Allan Sheppard, fell off the car and died at a hospital. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that two workers were found dead in an empty gallon chemical vat at the industrial dry cleaning plant of the company North East Linen, in Linden, New Jersey. According to Linden police, the workers were suffocated from inhaling chemicals. They said, the workers were cleaning a tank used to dilute chemicals before they are poured into the sewer system. The police is investigating criminal negligence on the part of the plant and the safety precautions required at the plant.

The article presents new briefs from around the world. A Brazilian electrician, Jean Charles de Menezes, was mistakenly killed by the police in London on July 2005 in the aftermath of a failed terror attack. American pharmaceutical company, Armour Pharmaceutical Co., and four physicians were acquitted for negligence charges of tainted blood after an 18-month trial of criminal negligence. Police in Berlin are reported to arrest 11 members of a mob who attacked three Greeks at a gas station.

The article reports on the criminal trial of a nursing home in St. Francisville, Louisiana, in a criminal negligence case. The nursing home watery tomb for 35 residents because of the Hurricane Katrina 2005. Louisiana attorney general has charged the nursing home owners with negligent homicide. This is the single criminal prosecution related to the hurricane deaths. The trial began on August 16, 2007.

The article reports that Jovanna Shiriver, resident of Bedford-Stuyvesant, New York City, was charged with reckless endangerment for leaving her child Smiele Oroñez unattended. Shiriver had left 11-month-old Oroñez alone with a 2-year-old aunt in a bathtub, fully filled with water, on July 3, 2007. Oroñez, according to a police spokesman, was listed in a critical condition in Schneider Children's Hospital in New Hyde Park on Long Island, New York.

The article presents information on several developments related to various fields, in New York and New Jersey. An unidentified old man died in his apartment in East Village, New York. The Fire Department said, he got burnt in a cooking accident. New York City will allow local government to investigate the fraudulent use of Medicaid by health care providers. A New Jersey woman was charged with endangering the welfare of a child, when a newborn was found inside a trash can outside an apartment.

Reports on the murder charges filed against the owners and security guards of a megastore in Asunción, Paraguay. Number of people killed in the fire incident; Maximum years of imprisonment; Criminal negligence filed against the owner Fernando Humberto for allegedly refusing to help people escape from the burning building.

Reports on a seven month-old boy who died after he was abandoned by his father inside a closed vehicle parked near the man's residence in Lakewood, New Jersey.

Reports that Don French will file a negligence lawsuit against some of the people who were with his daughter Brandy during the night she became fatally ill from ecstasy at a rock concert as of February 12, 2002.

Reports on the arrest of two brothers, aged eight and nine, on charges of criminally negligent homicide and second degree assault for the death of their four-year-old neighbor in New York City in September 2001.

Reports that a jury in New York City has convicted Tabitha Walrond of criminally negligent homicide in the starvation of her infant son, Tyler. Sentence that Walrond faces; The claim from prosecutors that Walrond let her child starve because she was mad at his father; Efforts by Walrond's lawyers to prove that she was unaware that her breasts were not producing enough milk to keep Tyler healthy; Why the jury chose to convict Walrond of negligence but not second-degree murder.

Reports the March 9, 1999 acquittal of former French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius and a member of his cabinet on charges of criminal negligence and manslaughter in the deaths of people who contracted AIDS in the mid-1980s from tainted blood transfusions. Details of the charges against and trial of Fabius and Georgina Dufoix; Response to the decision; Discussion.

Reports the suspension of John Goodman, a New Jersey parole officer, for not taking any action against the reported drug problem of Darnell Collins who later went on a murderous rampage in New York City and New Jersey in June 1995. Details.

Reports that a Federal jury in Puerto Rico has found three companies controlled by the Frank family guilty of criminal negligence in a 1994 barge accident. Charges brought under the Oil Pollution Control Act of 1990; Charges of illegal pollution against the Frank's companies in the New York-New Jersey area; Court appointed lawyers for the companies.

Reports that Lee Joon, owner of the Sampoong department store in Seoul, South Korea was found guilty of criminal negligence on December 27, 1995. Type of punishment; Details on the collapse of Joon's store.

Reports that Audrey Saylor of Oklahoma was arrested and charged on May 17, 1997, with criminal neglect, involving her 10-year-old daughter. When neighbors contacted authorities about the girl, who was left in a filthy trailer without food; Comment from John Priddy, prosecutor in the case.