The body of a young female was recovered near the site of a boat accident in the Delaware River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania police say.

According to officials with the Philadelphia Police Department, the unidentified remains are currently being transported to the Philadelphia medical examiner’s office. The Coast Guard will not say definitively that the person was the victim of the accident until the body can be positively identified by the medical examiner.

Officer Christine O’Brien said two passengers, a 16 year-old girl and a 20 year-old man went missing in that area of the Delaware River after a tour boat collided with a barge Wednesday.

Rescuers saved 35 people were on the tour boat at the time of the crash. Information on the nature or extent of their injuries was not immediately available.

The Dubuque Community School District in Pennsylvania has agreed to pay $170,000 to the family of a student who died in a traffic accident in front of Hempstead High School.

The parents of 15 year-old Lauren Schmidt filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the school district after their daughter was struck and killed by a vehicle driven by a classmate in front of the school in September 2007. Schmidt passed in front of a school bus that partially pulled on to Pennsylvania Avenue.

Most details of the settlement are confidential, but the impact to public funds has been released. The school district agreed to pay $115,000 and the city agreed to pay $55,000. The settlement will be payed by a third party insurance carrier.

Our thoughts and prayers are with the victim’s family and friends.

A report released by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police determined that the death of a Polish man in a Vancouver airport was due to unnecessary police response.

The man arrived from Poland in October of 2007. On arrival, he was parted from his mother, who is was traveling with at the time, and found himself in a Vancouver terminal without the ability to speak English or find anyone who could help him translate his worries. After 10 hours working through customs officials, the man realized that he was without any help in the international terminal. He began to throw furniture after not getting any assistance.

Police arrived expecting a routine call of a drunken man causing trouble. Before sufficiently trying to dissuade the man from further destructive actions, one of the officers fired his taser. Video footage reveals that the current in the device was fired through the man five times, several being after he had collapsed to the ground.

Although acquitted from criminal charges, the police involved were not free of blame in the incident.

After meeting with Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion victims, President Obama was pressured from legislators to campaign harder against caps that protect BP from paying full compensatory funds for injuries and damages.

One major piece of legislation that President Obama was pressed to reconsider was the 1920 Death on the High Seas Act. That particular law was passed to protect off-shore vessels from liability. According to the law, compensatory liability for wrongful death suits is markedly lighter for ships found at least three miles from the shoreline.

The families of the victims expressed their desire to see justice meted out while, more importantly, seeing that an accident of this proportion and tragic consequence would not happen again. Both relatives and legislators noted that they were worried about fair treatment due to the circumstances of long-dated laws that were passed prior to the rise of off-shore drilling practices.

The Obama administration has repeatedly claimed that they will do their best to ensure that the proper consequences were taken against the parties at blame.

The largest contractor for the U.S. military in Iraq, KBR Inc., has lost a $24.1 million bonus removed from their paycheck following court proceedings that charges the company with negligence leading to a wrongful death.

The company was acquitted of criminal charges filed against them by the deceased’s family, but the case was appealed to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia.

According to the plaintiff, the electric pump in a shower that was used by the Special Forces member was not properly grounded. When the current came into the open, the soldier was electrocuted and killed. This happened on January 2, 2008. The Pentagon’s inspector general released a report on July 27, 2009, that firmly stated death was the culmination of multiple failures.

The Army has ordered more services from the company, adding an order to the amount of roughly $568 million to the $35.7 billion already spent on the company.