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Grace Fryer (14 March 1899 – 27 October 1933) [1] was an American dial painter and Radium Girl, [2] who sued U.S. Radium after suffering radium poisoning while employed painting watch faces. [3] Subsequently, joined by fellow workers Quinta McDonald, Albina Larice, Edna Hussman, and Katherine Schaub, Fryer brought a suit labelled in the media ...
The Radium Girls' saga holds an important place in the history of the fields of health physics, women's rights, and the labor rights movement. The right of individual workers to sue for damages from corporations due to labor abuse was established, labor safety standards like the baseline called provable suffering were created.
Lawsuits filed in L.A. Superior Court against TikTok allege two young girls died after watching videos on the app that encouraged self-strangulation. TikTok is sued over deaths of two young girls ...
Since 1996, there has been an unusually high number of cases involving young women disappearing along U.S. Route 29 (US 29) in Virginia, or an area known as the "Route 29 Corridor". [1] Five young women disappeared in five years between 2009 and 2014, earning it a particularly notorious reputation. [2]
Abby Williams and Libby German were found murdered in 2017 near Monon High Bridge in Delphi, Indiana. After years of uncertainty, local man Richard Allen has been found guilty and sentenced to 130 ...
American gymnast Kara Welsh and Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei of Uganda were killed days apart by their intimate partners, columnist Nancy Armour writes
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in February 2025 ) and then linked below. 2025
Legal papers found in the jewelry box led them to the home of 81-year-old Lu Thi Harris, who was found smothered to death in her bedroom. He was convicted of killing two elderly women, including ...