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• Unlicensed driver kills four in Richmond, Virginia

  Ben Glass | July 15, 2007 11:29 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  According to Virginia State Poilice, Marvin Antonio Maldonado's car left the ground on Walmsley Boulevard before crashing and killing its passengers. Police are pressing reckless driving charges against Maldonado.The deceased are Ediverto Delacruz Ramirez, 21, and Carmen Delacruz Gonzales, 18, both of Chesterfield County; and Victor Garcia Morales, 23, of Gainesville, Ga. They were pronounced...

• Nine People Sue TB Infected Lawyer

  Jenny Albano | July 15, 2007 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL

  Nine people have filed a $1.3 million lawsuit against Andrew Speaker, who may have infected them with tuberculosis when he took a commercial flight from Prague to Montreal.Of those who are suing Speaker, eight people were passengers on the flight and the ninth is a brother and roommate to one of the passengers. Andrew Speaker, an Atlanta personal injury attorney, caused an international health...

• CPSC Discusses Changing Policies

  Jenny Albano | July 15, 2007 9:46 AM | 0 CommentsWaco, TX

  Nancy Nord, the Consumer Product Safety Commission's acting chairman, thinks the agencies policies need to be updated, the law is 35 years old and needs to be changed. Earlier this week, her staff had a meeting with a group representing manufacturers and a meeting with several consumer groups to discuss her ideas and proposals.Nord wants to make it illegal to sell a product that has been...

• Dad Arrested After Accident that Killed his Son

  Chrissie Cole | July 15, 2007 6:20 AM | 0 CommentsSan Diego, CA

  A father has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after fleeing from a fatal car accident that claimed the life of his 9-year-old son, who was asleep in the front seat, yesterday.The boy died on impact, authorities said. The boy's father was driving him home when he crashed into the back of a pickup truck parked on the shoulder of the road, said California Highway Patrol.The father, who...

• Two Accidents on I-29 Lead to Four Injuries

  Steve Lombardi | July 15, 2007 6:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Two accidents occurred within a half hour of each other north of Sloan on Highway I-29. The first accident involved a motorcycle traveling northbound with a small trailer that lost control and crashed into the center median. The two riders were taken to Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City to be treated for broken bones and other injuries. While officials were investigating this accident, the...

• Class Action Lawsuit Filed in Strip Search Case

  Chrissie Cole | July 15, 2007 2:08 AM | 0 CommentsDayton, OH

  A lawsuit filed in federal court, was granted class action status yesterday by a US District Court Judge. The lawsuit seeks a minimum of $3 million dollars in a strip-search case.The lawsuit was filed by a 47-year old woman of Ellenburg in northern New York. The lawsuit alleges she was illegally strip-searched in a county jail on March 2003 after being arrested on misdemeanor charges for the...

• Five Killed in Tractor Trailer Accident

  Chrissie Cole | July 14, 2007 10:15 PM | 0 CommentsTupelo, MS

  A horrific trucking accident near Pine Bluff claimed the life of five. The accident occurred at 12:30 p.m., Saturday. The accident is especially tragic because four of the five people killed were small children.A semi-truck trailer was traveling northbound on Highway 425 when the truck crossed the center line and struck a southbound car, killing all the occupants. The driver of the vehicle was a...

• Randy Jones Motorcycle Wreck

  Ward Merdes | July 14, 2007 8:35 PM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  Colleen Jones suffered a terrible loss when her husband Randy was killed in a motorcycle wreck. Their insurance companies should be working hard to take care of them. Any bets on whether they will? Hold your breath.Fairbanks lost a good man on July 12. Randy Jones died in a motorcycle wreck. Riding side-by-side with his wife, the newspaper reports that their motorcycles touched, Randy lost...

• Increase in Seattle Trucking Accidents

  Rick Patterson | July 14, 2007 5:24 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  A suspicious number of commercial trucks in the Seattle area have had there wheels come loose causing traffic accidents. The numbers are high: At least six incidents have occurred in and around Seattle since May of this year. In one incident, "a Safeway Inc. driver narrowly escaped injury when his water truck hit an errant semi-truck wheel. The wreck caused a 10-mile backup on Interstate 405. On...

• Nursing Home Sexual Abuse

  Susy Owen | July 14, 2007 4:43 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  In a Utah case Jacob Bolith was booked on sexual abuse charges. He was accused of sexually assaulting an 85-year-old woman at a Salt Lake nursing home. The police say more and more people are now coming forward with similar charges."Detective Jared Wihongi says, "Some of the calls have involved people with elderly parents that for some reason or another didn't take seriously the complaints the...