LEBANON, Va. — A former emergency medical technician who jolted a co-worker with cardiac defibrillator paddles as a prank and ended up killing her will spend a year in prison. Joshua Phillip Martin, ...

LEBANON, Va. (AP) — A judge convicted a former rescue squad worker of involuntary manslaughter for zapping a co-worker with defibrillator paddles in a deadly prank. Joshua Philip Martin, 25, faces a ...

THE SENTENCE Initially, it seemed like a 'prank' by a group of boys, but then it turned out to be a 'business' that yielded a lot of money, something worth risking arrest for, even more than once.

A schoolboy has to be close to a defibrillator 24 hours a day because his rare heart condition means he could die at any moment. Eleven-year-old Alexander Lawson could even get struck down by a silly ...