Latest Legal News from SS&F

A woman from Penn Township was arrested last week after a hit-and-run incident that sent a man to the hospital. The man who was struck by Maria Ann Martini, 32, said that he was walking towards a restaurant when a green Honda struck him from behind. The woman got out of the car to see if he was okay but took off when he said the police needed to be called. When police caught up with Martini, they found what they believed to be heroin or fentanyl inside of the vehicle. Martini

When a dog decides that it is going to attack a person, the results are rarely good. Even worse, children are especially vulnerable due to their size and inability to defend themselves. We are learning of a situation in nearby Duquesne in which a man intervened after he heard two children being attacked by dogs on the loose. “I realized the dogs look like they were attacking them and I heard the one kid screaming for help and I had to do something,” said Randy Jubak. He said that the children were

A college student in Oakland (Pittsburgh) was struck by a Port Authority bus the other day as she was crossing the street. The area where she was struck is a busy intersection according to other students. The University of Pittsburgh student was taken to the hospital along with a passenger on the bus and the bus driver. Port Authority Police say that the bus driver will undergo drug and alcohol testing as per protocol. While we await the results of those tests, we do know that it is up to everyone,

Here we go again. It seems like we are just getting back to normal with our food after the massive lettuce recall that affected us over Thanksgiving. Now we are learning about an entirely new recall of red lettuce, green leaf lettuce, and cauliflower. Guess what? This recall is coming from the same farm linked to the Thanksgiving lettuce outbreak. Check your refrigerators again, because those three products being recalled now were sold in Pennsylvania. At Shenderovich, Shenderovich & Fishman, we know that these recalls are getting old. Unfortunately, there are others

We know that the last thing anyone at the Washington Health Clinic Outpatient Center expected was that a vehicle would come crashing through on a calm day last June. Unfortunately, that is what happened when Chad Spence, 43, was behind the wheel and driving erratically. Police say that Spence, a person with a history of drunk driving, slammed into the medical center and killed a receptionist who worked there. While we do not know for sure if Spence was drunk at the time of this accident, we do know that

We know that drinking and driving is something that should not happen. Unfortunately, it is still all too common across Pennsylvania. There were more than 128,188 vehicle crashes reported in the latest reporting year according to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. How many of those were due to incidents involving alcohol? Police across Pennsylvania do what they can to keep drunk drivers off the road, but they cannot catch everyone. Drunk drivers are the cause of some of the most serious accidents that occur on the roadways in and around