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Court of Appeals of Georgia. FOREST COVE APARTMENTS , LLC et al. v. WILSON. No. A15A0799.     Decided: August 21, 2015 Following the grant of their application for interlocutory appeal, Forest Cove Apartments , LLC and American Apartment Management Company (collectively, the “defendants”) appeal the trial court's order denying their motion for summary judgment in this premises liability action brought by Teresa R. Wilson after she fell from an upstairs bathroom while performing independent contractor work for the defendants at an apartment complex. Because the uncontroverted evidence of record shows that Wilson had equal knowledge of the dangerous condition that caused her fall, we must reverse the trial court's denial of summary judgment to the defendants. On appeal from the denial of summary judgment[,] the appellate court is to conduct a de novo review of the evidence to determine whether there exists a genuine issue of material fact, and whether the undisputed facts, v...

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released a painstakingly detailed progress report chocked -full of new facts pertaining to last summer's Silver Spring apartment explosion . The report, which does not identify a cause or assign blame, contains 108 documents, including transcribed witness interviews , vivid investigatory photographs and fire department call logs . One witness parked his car along Arliss Street on the night of August 10, 2016. He recollected seeing a sudden "white flash" and feeling a "shock wave" overcome his body. The sheer force of the blast shattered some of the man's car windows and even dented one of his car doors. “There was a flash, there was shock wave," the man, who suffered a minor cut near his right ear, told investigators. “I must tell you that the explosion came from the apartment on the first floor. There were two apartments on top of it that basically went down on it.” A second male...

It’s a sparkling winter’s afternoon on Sydney Harbour but inside the Sydney Theatre Company ’s Walsh Bay headquarters , veteran actor John Bell is contemplating some altogether darker issues . “Where will I finish up?” Bell ponders aloud . “Will I die in the arms of strangers or will I be looked after and spared that condition? What does it feel like as we’re heading into that dark night?” Thankfully this extraordinary actor , named an Australian Living Treasure by the National Trust of Australia, is not discussing his own imminent demise, but his upcoming role in the STC production The Father . Written by French playwright Florian Zeller and adapted by Les Liaisons Dangereuses ’ Christopher Hampton, The Father is told through the eyes of 80-year-old Andre (Bell). A former tap dancer-turned-engineer who lives in a Parisian apartment, he grows suspicious when a number of people claiming to be relations continually turn up on his doorstep. To make matters worse these people seem to...

Ilene Waterstone says Park La Brea is "overpriced projects right now." Photo by Shane Lopes Ilene Waterstone, actor- comedian Steve Martin 's personal assistant, moved into a tower at the Park La Brea Apartments on April Fools' Day in 1992. She wasn't sure what to expect. "I used to think of Park La Brea as being the old people's complex," she recalls. It wasn't long before she fell in love with it. The grounds were lush and well-maintained, her neighbors respectful and neat. Then about two years ago, things went to hell. Elevators in her high- rise building repeatedly broke down, forcing Waterstone , 64 and saddled with chronic orthopedic problems , to trudge up and down floor after floor in a dimly lit stairwell to her eighth-floor apartment. She once made the climb wet and embarrassed after coming home from a water aerobics class to yet another grounded elevator . Rats and cockroaches infested what she says was an increasingly filthy buil...