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A Florida pastor's daughter was shot in the head after a gun accidentally went off at church. Twenty-year-old Hannah Kelley was taken to a local hospital in critical condition after the incident.

The gun belonged to a church member named Moises Zambrana. Zambrana brought the weapon to church to show Dustin Bueller. Bueller, 20, had wanted to purchase a gun when he turned 21.

The men were in a closet handling the weapon. Zambrana had taken out the clip. But there was one bullet in the chamber. The gun accidentally fired, going through the closet wall. It struck Kelley in the head, reports the New York Daily News.

A Connecticut man who was severely hurt in a Segway accident has won a $10 million verdict against the Segway scooter company.

Jurors announced their verdict Wednesday in John Ezzo's suit against Segway Inc. The New Hampshire-based company makes unique, two-wheeled personal transporters that riders control while standing and leaning in different directions.

Ezzo, 23, of Norwalk, Conn., suffered a traumatic brain injury in a Segway accident at Southern Connecticut State University in 2009, The Hour reports.

Segway company representatives had set up an obstacle course on campus called the "Segway Challenge," Ezzo's lawyer told The Hour. The "Challenge" was to steer a Segway through the obstacle course while blindfolded. Participants were not provided with helmets, Ezzo's lawyer said.

A recent soccer study has found that "heading" a ball may cause brain damage to some players, reports CBS News.

Researchers found that players who frequently headed balls - more than 1,000 or 1,500 times a year - displayed some abnormalities in MRI scans that appeared similar to brain damage caused by car accidents.

For some players, this may means it may be possible that you could suffer damage to your brain if you head a ball more than a few times a day.

Can the Occupy Oakland veteran-turned-protestor Scott Olsen sue the police? The 24-year-old veteran suffered serious injuries after getting hit in the head by a projectile during a protest last Tuesday night.

His skull was fractured and doctors are optimistic that he will recover. But he has been experiencing increased brain pressure on the lobe that controls a person's ability to speak. Last Friday, he wasn't able to speak, but he could understand words said to him and could write.

Olsen's injuries reinvigorated the protesters in the California city. They also sparked questions about whether or not police used the proper amount of force when dispersing the crowd. 

Olsen could sue the police for causing his injuries. How would he go about it?

Bryan Stow was brutally attacked in a parking lot at Dodgers Stadium in March. From most accounts, the senseless beating was brought on simply because Stow, 42, is a Giants fan.

The crime occurred in a stadium parking lot after an opening game between the Dodgers and the Giants. Stow, a paramedic, was wearing Giants gear.

Zachary Alt played football at Pittsburgh's Highlands High School until three successive concussions knocked him out the game.

Four years later, still suffering from the effects of those injuries, Alt has filed suit against Highlands High.

He is alleging that the school violated his constitutional rights by failing to protect him from further injuries and subsequently inflating his grades so he could graduate.

A New York jury awarded $3 million in damages to a teen who suffered serious injuries during childbirth 18 years ago. Dr. Stephen Serlin, a Glen Falls doctor, was ordered to pay damages to Marlayna Kineke for medical malpractice committed in the course of his work as an obstetrician-gynecologist.

According to Kineke, Serlin was responsible for a brain injury that occurred during childbirth. The Warren County jury agreed that the injury was Serlin's fault and had caused Kineke developmental problems.

We recently discussed the story of Las Vegas girl Takara Davis, who received a jaywalking ticket while in a coma after being hit by a car.

The case initially caused outrage in Vegas. A judge later dismissed the ticket. How's this for a new development: David has come out of the coma, and now she is suing the driver of the car that hit her.

The buzz about NFL concussions is growing. With the Super Bowl coming up this weekend, it's a good time to talk about NFL lawsuits.

Two class action lawsuits are being prepared against the NFL by players with serious brain injuries. In response, the league has announced that it is going to take a deeper look at concussions in the NFL, ESPN reports. This season, the league handed out some big fines for big hits and intentional shots to the head. This comes as medical evidence showing the damage of head injuries caused by NFL concussions continues to grow.

What price should the police have to pay when unnecessary force causes a man to lapse into a coma? The family of a Seattle man who had his head slammed into a wall wants $25 million.

Testimony began last week in the Seattle police takedown trial brought by the family of Christopher Harris. Harris, 31, was running from a King County sheriff's deputy when an officer cracked his head against a wall. "It sounded like when somebody takes a baseball bat and hits a ball real hard and you hear that crack," said witness Ron Cody. Two years later, Harris is still in a coma.