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The article reports that singer-actress Claudine Longet has been released from Pitkin County, Colorado courthouse on a 5,000 dollars bond in the shooting death of her partner ski champion Vladimir Sabich at his home in Aspen, Colorado. It states that District Attorney Frank Tucker prepares to arraign her with possible charges that range from criminally negligent homicide to second-degree murder, which has a maximum of 50 years imprisonment. It says that Longet has called the Aspen Valley Hospital, reporting that there had been a shooting after she returned to Sabich's home from drinking in a couple of hours at a watering hole. Meanwhile, it mentions that Longet was a former wife of singer Andy Williams, who remains as her friend and stood beside her in time of crisis.

The article reports on a train accident that occurred in Woodbridge, New Jersey in early February 1951. The Pennsylvania train, called the Broker, was driven by engineer Joseph Fitzsimmons. As of February 19, 1951, there were already 84 dead and 400 injured people from the accident. According to assistant county prosecutor Alex Eber, the railroad is liable of criminal negligence.

The article reports on the incident happened in Suburban General Hospital in Norristown, Pennsylvania wherein the oxygen which they used for their patient were replaced with nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas. The incident has revealed after physician Leonard Becker discovered that the tube labeled oxygen was actually pumping nitrous oxide to their patient. Hospital authorities identified that the incident was caused by mislabeled pipe connections that caused as many as five deaths. It also cites a 7 million dollars in damages granted to Carolyn Ann Lord, who died from being given nitrous oxide instead of oxygen at the Southmore Medical Center in Pasadena, Texas .

The article reports on an accident in which security guard Robert Bell's three-year-old son has shot his playmate, six-year-old Jeffery Krauch, using his father's .357-magnum pistol. It states that Bell placed the gun in the dining room cabinet in his mother's house when he came to visit her in South Baltimore along with his girlfriend and two children. It also mentions that neither Bell nor anyone else will be charged with negligence because the former had a permit for the pistol and the accident was beyond concerns regarding legality and illegality.

The article focuses on the judgment of Chief Judge Yuzo Kawachi to the criminal case involving Army Specialist Third Class William S. Girard. It mentions that Girard, who was charged of killing Naka Sakai, was determined guilty by Kawachi. It also states that Kawachi's decision connoted the nearly criminal negligence of the U.S. military authorities. It adds that Kawachi sentenced payment for the expenses of the witnesses and hard labor suspension.