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Submitted: January 23, 2007 - 9:21am
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 5:30am
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 5:30am
FAMILY DEMANDS FCC PULL RADIO STATION LINKED TO WATER DEATH
[SOURCE: Associated Press]
Lawyers for the family of a woman who died after drinking nearly two gallons of water in an on-air radio contest are demanding the Federal Communications Commission terminate the station's license. The development comes as the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department continues to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of 28-year-old Jennifer Lea Strange, and as the family's lawyers threaten to file a wrongful-death suit against the station as early as Thursday. In a letter Sunday to FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin, the family's lawyer writes, "We believe the conduct of the radio management and the on-air staff mandates that your agency terminate the radio station's license and discipline its ownership for their wanton disregard of the safety of the participants in this contest."
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