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Introduction George Bernard Shaw has righteously quoted we have not lost faith, we have just transferred it in the medical profession. Thus, an exceptional venerable position has been given to [...]

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 that Florida resident Joshua Blunt who pleaded guilty to culpable negligence manslaughter for being responsible for death of his daughter 8-month-old child Shania Rihanna Caradine and was given a five-year suspended sentence.

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 article reports that criminal charges have been filed against the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) which alleges the university and its faculty were negligent in the chemical laboratory death of research assistant Sheharbano "Sheri" Sangji. The article details the charges facing UCLA and chemistry professor Patrick G. Harran, focusing on the failure of the school to provide adequate laboratory safety training to its researchers. Efforts by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board and the American Chemical Society to increase government regulation over university laboratory safety procedures are discussed. Comments from Advanced Chemical Safety Inc. president Neal R. Langerman and nonprofit Laboratory Safety Institute head James A. Kaufman are highlighted.

The article reports on the arrest of Manoj Nayak, chairman of the private SUM hospital and four other staff from the Bhubaneswar city hospital who will face charges of criminal negligence and homicide over the fire that broke out in the intensive care unit, resulting the death of 19 patients.

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.

This article focuses on the conduct of U.S. federal, state and local officials concerning Hurricane Katrina. At best, criminal negligence is the only term that can aptly describe the conduct of federal, state and local officials concerning Hurricane Katrina. At worst, the conduct amounts to a criminal conspiracy. Interestingly, Senator Hillary Clinton is only urging the creation of an independent commission to investigate federal conduct. Instead of calling for a commission to investigate governmental conduct, Clinton and the Congressional Black Caucus should be calling for New Orleans to be treated as a crime scene to preserve evidence in establishing criminal and civil liability.

The article discusses assurances from Turkey's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan that those found negligent in criminal investigations of the May 13, 2014 Soma mine disaster would be held accountable and all the families of victims would be compensated. Erdogan made his remarks during a meeting of the Turkish Union of Chambers and Stock Exchanges on May 22, 2014. Also discussed are miners' testimony in a Soma Court in western Manisa province on May 22.

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 that the Russian prosecutors opened a criminal-negligence case on November 28, 2013 against former Russian defense minister, Anatoly Serdyukov, who was forced out in 2012 over allegations of corruption.

The article discusses a 2013 train crash near the city of Santiago de Compostela, Spain that killed over 70 people, reporting that the train's driver Francisco José Garzón has testified at a closed hearing as part of an investigation into possible negligence.

The article focuses on the possibility of criminal negligence involving the death of more than 20 children after eating a midday meal (MDM) in a rural school in Bihar, India in July 2013, according to experts. Topics discussed include the incident was described by the Union human resource development (HRD) ministry as an aberration, junior HRD minister Jitin Prasada states that the guidelines were not followed, and the incident was attributed to poor implementation.

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 on a lawsuit filed against the website Armslist.com by the brother of murder victim Jitka Vesel in the Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago, Illinois, which alleges the website, operated by Armslist LLC, was negligent in allowing illegal gun sales to take place.

This section offers news briefs including 14 Aboriginal Leadership Partners named for the 2015 Pan Am Games, the winners in National Football League's Youth Coach of the Year contest won by Dave Hocking in first place and charges filed against Stan Jonathan for criminal negligence causing death.

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.

An interview with Indian journalist Vinay Rai is presented in which he discusses a criminal negligence complaint he filed against several companies including the Internet search company Google and the online social network Facebook.

The article reports that the court of San Diego, California issued a letter of reprimand to Petty Officer Brittany Rasmussen for dereliction of duty during the San Diego Bay Crash in 2009.

The article reports that Bollywood filmmaker Kaizad Gustad has been found guilty of negligence following the death of his British assistant director Nadia Khan.

The article reports that Igor Volkov was fired as director of OAO Raspadskaya and has been charged with criminal negligence.

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 on a trial canceled by a federal judge to hear lawsuits stemming from a 2006 place crash that killed 49 people in Kentucky, after family members and the airline reached settlements in most of the cases. The cancellation was confirmed by chief deputy clerk Mark Armstrong. Accordingly, the lawsuits alleged that Comair was negligent because its pilots steered the plane in the pre-dawn darkness to the wrong runway.

The article reports that Joanne Alvarez, a Manhattan healthcare aide in New York was charged with criminal negligent homicide for the death of her daughter. Alvarez who was accused of killing her own 6-year-old foster daughter by giving a powerful medicated anti-pain patch was arraigned in Manhattan's state Supreme Court and was later released through $15,000 bail. However, it reports that Alvarez has pleaded not guilty of the charges accused to her.

The article reports on the termination of employment of a trooper after he hit and killed a woman and hurt her son in Lyons, New York. Erik Kristansen was driving a speeding police cruiser while trying to help a Wayne County sheriff deputy who stopped a vehicle believed to be involved in a robbery. It was reported that he was driving 127 miles per hour (MPH) when he skidded and hit the car driven by Shonda Skinner. He was cleared of criminal liability but Skinner's family may sue him.

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.

The article reviews the motion picture "Iraq for Sale," directed by Robert Greenwald.

The article presents information on tape recordings of a phone conversation between Inspector Ron Fox, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Ontario legislature liaison and Ipperwash incident commander Inspector John Carson, on September 6, 1995. The recordings played publicly for the first time show that at least one OPP officer believed that former Ontario premier Mike Harris was pushing for police to use violence to break up a 1995 Native protest. Mere hours after the recordings were made a native protestor Dudley George was shot dead by Acting Sergeant Kenneth Deane, who was later convicted of criminal negligence causing death.

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.

Focuses on the decision of the Ontario Supreme Court on the case of Kean Dean. Impact of the ruling to the concern victim family; Disappointments over the Ipperwash case investigation; Illicit discovery of a reporter concerns on the warning call from the courts legislature.

Reports on the work negligence of Ontario Provincial Police officer Kean Deane. Breach on the code of conduct and criminal negligence in the death of unarmed Native protestor; Request to submit resignation; Significance of respect on the Indigenous people human rights.

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.

MOSCOW. Nov 13 (Interfax) - A criminal case has been opened on the counts of negligence over the death of officers in a tank car at the Plesetsk Space Center, the Russian Investigative Committee's Main Military Investigative Department said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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.