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A Hawker H25 private business jet crashed into a residential building in Akron, Ohio at approximately 3 pm ET on Tuesday, Nov. 10. Seven passengers and the two pilots were killed.

A Florida state jury found R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and Philip Morris USA., Inc., liable on Oct. 6, 2015 for the death of Margate, Florida resident Salvatore “Sal” Marchese.

A cargo ship, El Faro, has gone missing after leaving the port of Jacksonville, Fla., early last week. The ship was headed to Puerto Rico when it lost power and, ultimately, contact with its home base and the U.S. Coast Guard.

ABC news affiliate WCIV spoke with Motley Rice vehicle defect attorney Kevin Dean on Sept. 30, 2015, regarding the firm’s filing of class action suits against Volkswagen (VW).

Motley Rice LLC, one of the nation’s largest plaintiffs’ firms, has filed class actions in eight states for alleged consumer fraud and breach of contract regarding German automaker Volkswagen’s emissions scandal.

During City Council meetings that took place earlier this week, the cities of Charleston, West Virginia, and Charleston, South Carolina, each officially proclaimed September 26, 2015, as Mesothelioma Awareness Day in their respective municipalities.

In a special, two-part feature on IVC filters aired on Sept. 2 and 3, 2015, NBC reporters spoke with a 45-year-old IVC filter recipient who “flat lined” when a fragment from her Recovery® IVC filter broke off and pierced her heart, as well as with a veteran regulatory specialist who was hired by device manufacturer C.R. Bard to help its Recovery® IVC filter pass FDA approval.

On June 30, 2015, Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia appointed Motley Rice LLC as lead counsel in a proposed consolidated class action against the IRS for annual license fees charged to tax return preparers.

On July 30, 2015, a proposed class of investors brought suit against American Express, alleging that the credit card company concealed the financial impact of its co-branding relationship with the U.S. operations of Costco Wholesale Corp.

On August 5, 2015, Malaysian Prime Minster Najib Razak confirmed that a piece of debris found on the coast of the French Island La Réunion in the Indian Ocean is a piece of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.