A local teacher at the Stevens Point Area High School is behind bars after being accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl. The 39 year-old is facing charges of sexual assault and exposing himself to a child. According to the criminal complaint, the assaults started just a few weeks after the technical education teacher's wife died last November and began to increase in frequency in September.

He has admitted to authorities that he had sex with the teenager at least ten times. Stevens Point Area High School has put him on administrative leave pending a court decision. He is scheduled to appear in Wood County Circuit Court next week. If convicted, he could spend 83.5 years in prison.

If you or someone you love is a victim of sexual assault, contact the Stevens Point sexual assault lawyers of Habush Habush & Rottier S.C. at 800-242-2874 today.

Over a dozen people have died of listeriosis and the numbers are expected to rise, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Seventy-two have been diagnosed and linked to have eaten listeria-contaminated cantaloupe grown at a Colorado farm called Jensen Farms. Several families have already filed lawsuits against Jensen Farms and their local grocery stores.

More people are expected to develop listeriosis since it can take several weeks for it to develop after consuming listeria-contaminated foods. Currently, the tainted cantaloupe is only connected to those grown at Jensen Farms, but consumers are urged to throw out the fruit if they are in doubt of its origins.

The eldery, yound children, and pregnant women are at high risks for developing listeriosis since they have compromised immune systems.

If you or someone you love has been seriously harmed or worse due consuming contaminated foods, contact the Stevens Point food products lawyers of Habush Habush & Rottier S.C. ® at 800-242-2874. 

Volkswagen will issue a recall on 2011-2012 Jetta sedans after an investigation found that protruding exhaust pipe tips caused several people to be burned on their legs after brushing against them. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Volkswagen of America Inc. will inspect and replace exahust pipe tips as necessary free of charge.

30,294 vehicles are affected by the recall. The vehicles had a stainless steel exhaust pipe tip installed after importation that has made them stick out farther than original factory-installed exhaust pipes. When the car has been on and running for sometime, a serious burn could result.

If you or someone you love has been injured by a defective automobile, contact the Stevens Point automobile defect attorneys of Habush Habush & Rottier S.C. ® at 800-242-2874. 

A Virgina sheriff and a jail's chief physician have been sued for wrongful death by the family of a 46 year-old man who died while in custody. A Circuit Court jury awarded the family $2.4 million in damages after a week of trial. The man was arrested and brought to jail on charges of driving with a suspended license and property damage after he suffered a seizure while driving and ran into a house.

The jury found the sheriff liable for the physician's conduct. Witness testimoney showed that the inmate suffered serve pain in his chest, side, and abdomen that was ignored for weeks by deputies and medical staff.  He was also not given his seizure medication for at least ten days. Autopsy reports prove that he died of untreated pneumonia.

A Wisconsin teenager was given two years probation after he was accused of sodomizing a male student at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. The 19 year-old pled no contest last week to first-degree sexual assault charges. The judge did not give him jail time because the assailant was remorseful and apologetic and believes he acted out of character.

The teen's probation includes six months of electronic monitoring, counseling, mediation, and restitution along with six months in a county jail with work release. He must also stay out trouble for two years, write a letter of apology to the victim, and complete 80 hours of community service to have the sexual assault charges dropped. The man, however, was charged with misdemeanor battery and false imprisonment. Both students have since voluntarily left the university.

If you or someone you love has been a sexually assaulted, contact the Stevens Point sexual assault attorneys of Habush Habush & Rottier S.C. ® at 800-242-2874. 

A Cessna 172 aircraft crashed into a residential neighborhood in Santa Monica this Monday. The student pilot hit a cinder brick wall and the nose of the plane crashed into part of the house. The director of the Santa Monica Airport says the man was practicing his take offs and landings when the accident occurred. Fortunately, the pilot only suffered a broken leg and no one on the ground was injured. Three workers painting the home helped him out of the plane and put out a small fire with a garden hose.

Federal investigators are looking into the cause of the crash. The plane has been taken in to be examined for defects and investigators are conducting interviews with airport tower witnesses and the pilot's aviation school operators. Residents in the area have fought to ban fast-landing jets but were shot down by the FAA.

If you or someone you love has been injured in an airplane accident, contact the Stevens Point aviation accident lawyers of Habush Habush & Rottier S.C. ® at 800-242-2874. 

A West Virginia jury found a nursing home guilty of neglect and awarded the victim's family with $91.5 million. The family's 87 year-old grandmother died in nursing home care after they claim the facility failed to provide the woman with enough food and water for three weeks.

Now the nursing home plans to appeal the decision to West Virginia's Supreme Court. They argue that the amount awarded violates the state's medical malpractice cap, but the defendants claim that since the elderly woman's death did not result from improper medicinal care, but nutrition and hydration neglect, that the medical malpractice cap law does not apply to this case. The family's lawyers also argue that the caregivers at the nursing home are not licensed to administer medicine, therefore medical negligence also did not occur. They hope the Supreme Court agrees and throws out the appeal.

If someone you love has been injured in an accident caused by neglect or abuse in a nursing home, contact a Stevens Point nursing home malpractice lawyer of Habush Habush & Rottier S.C. ® at 800-242-2874. 

A Wisconsin priest has been arrested for sexually assaulting a 15 year-old girl earlier this month in La Crosse. The girl says a drunk man approached her and her friends downtown when he suddenly assaulted her. One of her friends was able to take a picture of the man with a cell phone, which police used to track him down. He identified himself in the picture when approached by police.

The 37 year-old priest admitting he had several drinks earlier that night and talked with the group of teenagers, but denies assaulting the girl. He currently faces charges of second-degree sexual assault of a child younger than 16 years-old. The man had just returned to the United States after spending five years in Rome earning his doctorate in canon law.

If you or someone you love has been a victim of sexual assault, contact the Stevens Point sexual assault lawyers of Habush Habush & Rottier S.C. at 800-242-2874.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, August is the deadliest month for drivers. More people die in this month than any other; 1.09 fatalities per 100 million miles traveled. Experts say that the chances of motorist fatalities increase because more people are driving more miles than at any other time of the year.

Saturdays have an average of 123 deaths a day nation-wide in 2009, making it the most dangerous day to drive. Tuesdays, in contrast, are the least dangerous days with an average of 69 fatalities. Most accidents occur between 6 and 8:59pm, nearly four people die per hour during this time of the day.

33,808 people died in car accients in 2009, most victims (31%) were between the ages of 20 and 34.

If you or someone you love has been seriously injured due to a car accident, contact the Stevens Point auto accident lawyers of Habush Habush & Rottier S.C. at 800-242-2874.

An Atlanta jury recently awarded a family millions of dollars in a birth injury lawsuit. The jury found the family's daughter developed cerebral palsy due to the negligence of the doctor.

The mother agreed to her doctor's suggestion at an induced labor because of the child's low heart rate. The doctor told her that he would induce labor and deliver the baby via C-section. However, after he induced labor he decided to deliver the baby naturally. This caused oxygen to be blocked to the brain, causing cerebral palsy.

If you or someone you loved has had a child that has suffered due to doctors' negligence, contact the Stevens Point birth injury lawyers of Habush Habush & Rottier S.C. at 800-242-2874.