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A recent snowstorm shut down power for many Massachusetts residents. As a result, people looked for alternative ways to warm up including the use of stand alone heating devices.

However, if you are not careful or use a device improperly, you could fall victim to carbon monoxide poisoning.

In Hampden County, two people died from the odorless gas. They are the second and third carbon monoxide deaths this week. Fire officials say that the deadly poison came from an "alternative heating device" being used because of the snowstorm, reports The Boston Globe.

The family of Richel Nova, a former Domino's Pizza delivery man, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the pizza chain for the 58-year-old man's brutal killing last year.

Nova was dispatched to a dilapidated two-family structure on 742 Hyde Park Avenue to deliver pepperoni pizzas, chicken wings, and soda. When he made his delivery, Nova was lured inside the building where he was stabbed 16 times, reports The Boston Globe.

In June, Marie Joseph drowned at Vietnam Veterans Memorial Pool. The Fall River drowning made national headlines, as her body was not discovered for days while the pool remained open to the public. Unbeknownst to swimmers, Joseph’s dead body floated beneath them as they enjoyed relief from the heat.

Now, criminal charges have been brought against two staff members of the pool, reports The Herald News. The charges are unrelated to the death of Joseph, which has been deemed an accidental drowning, and instead are for recklessly endangering children for keeping such a dirty pool where a dead body could not even be seen floating beneath the surface.

After a decade of litigation, the family of Mark Bavis decided to settle their wrongful death lawsuit against United Airlines. The September 11 lawsuit claimed that the airline was negligent in allowing the terrorists onboard.

Bavis was a professional hockey scout from Roslindale, reports The Boston Globe. On September 11, 2001, Bavis boarded United Flight 175 headed from Boston to Los Angeles. As you all know, the plane was hijacked and became the second plane to strike the World Trade Center.

The wrongful death lawsuit for the daycare death of Gabriel Josh-Cazir Pierre has not been filed yet, but you can bet it's coming. The 17-month-old boy was forgotten inside a sweltering van in Boston, dying a horrendous death. For the baby left on bus, the driver of the bus, his employer, and the daycare facility may all pay dearly for the tragedy.

Earlier this week, Luis Matos was making his morning rounds of delivering babies to daycare centers, reports USA Today. Somehow, in the hustle and bustle of making deliveries, Matos failed to realize that Pierre was still in the van and left him in a hot van on a hot summer day.

A sad headline: young woman falls through roof in South Boston and dies. The unidentified woman, who was only in her twenties, fell nearly five stories through a skylight on the roof of 281 Summer Street.

The woman and a friend were standing on the roof of the building on Saturday night, reports The Boston Globe. The friend could not remember where exactly the victim was standing, but she apparently fell through an unmarked shaft on the roof.

The City of Fall River is now subject to two lawsuits stemming from alleged EMT negligence by the same EMT -- Daniel Viveiros. The two incidents happened just months apart, and you have to wonder what Fall River city officials were thinking in allowing Viveiros to continue working as an EMT.

In the first incident, Viveiros is alleged to have contributed to the death of 46-year-old Antonio Carvalho, reports The Herald News. Carvalho had made an emergency call complaining of difficulty breathing. The man was suffering from cardiac arrest, but Viveiros allegedly failed to diagnose the problem. Carvalho's family claims that Viveiros was negligent in failing to bring his medical equipment in responding to the call and not taking Carvalho's vital signs. In a wrongful death suit, the family is claiming $2 million in damages.

The OSHA investigation of the Revere murder of Stephanie Moulton at a group home may lead to increased safety measures at all Massachusetts group homes and also help Moulton’s family win a wrongful death lawsuit.

According to The Boston Globe, in January, the 25-year old Moulton was killed at a group home in Revere run by the North Suffolk Mental Health Association. At the time of the killing, Moulton was alone in the group home with a potentially violent resident, Deshawn James Chappell. Chappell allegedly killed Moulton inside the home and dumped her body in Lynn. Chappell has been charged with murder and is currently awaiting trial.

A Fall River city health inspector allegedly signed off on the safety of a Fall River pool as a dead woman’s body lay submerged beneath the surface.

Last month, Marie Joseph drowned at Veterans Memorial Swimming Pool. The swimming death made headlines because her body was not discovered for days and all the while, the pool remained open to the public. Her body remained hidden from view partly due to the cloudy conditions of the pool.

Now, The Boston Globe is reporting that two days after Joseph drowned, and as her body remained in the pool, a health inspector visited the pool and issued a permit allowing the pool to remain open. The inspector did note that the pool appeared “cloudy.”

A 58-year old employee of Bay State Sweeping, Patrick MacDonald, died in a street sweeper accident in Norwood prompting an OSHA investigation.

According to GateHouse News Service, MacDonald was the operator of the street sweeper and his body was found apparently wedged in the machinery towards the front-end of the vehicle. At the time of the accident, MacDonald was reportedly driving the street sweeper behind a machine tearing tar off of the road. It is still not clear what caused his death.

As the accident occurred on the job, GateHouse reports that the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is investigating the incident.