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The massacre at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida was the deadliest mass shooting in recent United States history.

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A federal jury awarded a Wellington, Florida, family nearly $16 million last week, blaming a medical testing company for the cervical cancer death of a mother of two.

The jury placed 75 percent of the blame on LabCorp, the testing company, and awarded the family of Darian Wisekal $15.8 million, WPBF TV reports (wpbf.com). Wisekal died of cervical cancer in 2011 at age 37, three years after getting the first of two negative pap smears from LabCorp. Her husband, John Wisekal, claimed that LabCorp should have detected abnormal cells in a 2008 pap smear and he sued the corporation for negligence. A repeat pap smear, two years later, was also negative, but Wisekal’s doctor didn’t think the results were accurate and further testing revealed a large mass. Doctors performed surgery to remove the mass, but the cancer spread.

Beyond providing for his daughters, John Wisekal said he hoped the award might change the way medical laboratories do business, rapidly processing medical slides and test results, reports CBS 12 News (West Palm Beach, Florida). “When LabCorp came in and took over, they raised (the work quota) by a third, and said you have to read at least 85 slides a day,” said the Wisekal’s lead attorney, referring to trial testimony. The attorney said the lab technician “didn’t even have time to take her full hour lunch break.”
Wisekal’s pap smear slides from 2008 and 2010 both showed “high-grade abnormalities undisputed by LabCorp,” the attorney said, according to wpbf.com.

Attorneys for LabCorp had argued for much lower damages: $200,000 to John Wisekal for the loss of his wife, and $250,000 each to his 11- and 13-year-old daughters, according to the 

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A construction worker employed by SunRail was killed when part of the train on which he was riding derailed, tipped over and pinned him underneath.

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The man killed earlier this week when a rail car jumped the tracks near a SunRail station construction project has been identified as the train’s conductor.

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They are not in Jacksonville, Fla. At least, that’s what Allstate Insurance Co. found in its annual list of the safest cities for drivers in the U.S. According to The Jacksonville Times-Union, the city ranked 73rd among a list of 200 of the nation’s largest cities.

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A husband and wife en route to their Florida home recently were killed in a head-on collision with another car. The couple was traveling on US-27 when their vehicle was struck by another car. The driver’s side of each vehicle collided in the crash. The offending vehicle was traveling north, while the couple’s car was heading south.

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A member of a Florida road construction team was killed recently after the driver of a dump truck at the job site failed to see the man and hit him.The construction crew was working on the Crosstown Expressway in Tampa, Fla., in late November when the accident occurred.

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Police and road safety officials were out in full force as they conducted a checkpoint in the Lauderdale Lakes area on the night of Friday, Nov. 22.

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Florida’s waterways present unique hazards to many drivers in the state and far too often, motorists are crashing through guardrails and landing in the water.

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One woman is dead and another in critical condition following an accident on the Sawgrass Expressway in which they were struck by a car going the wrong way.

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