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U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 4, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform

MSNBC -- Car crashes are the leading cause of death for tweens and teens, and a new study outlines some of the most dangerous circumstances: Riding unbuckled with new teen drivers on high-speed roads. These were the three biggest risk factors contributing to ca.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jan 21, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- Investigators picked through the gnarled wreckage Monday of two small planes that collided about a mile from an airport, killing five and raining debris and bodies down on car dealership parking lots. The two small Cessnas crashed at 3:35 p.m. Sunday n.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Oct 22, 2007 @ 9:46am neoform

New York Times -- The message came across the police scanner in October 2006 as Alexander Roy was driving his 2000 BMW M5 west on Interstate 44 in Oklahoma: “I have a report of a blue BMW speeding, weaving in and out of traffic and driving recklessly. Be advised.” R.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Sep 17, 2007 @ 3:04pm neoform

MSNBC -- Two men fatally shot a 21-year-old man during a suspected home-invasion, then shot his 7-month-old son in the head as he was strapped in a car seat outside the home, police said. Detectives believe Sean Paul Aquitania drove with his son, Sean Paul Aqui.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jul 23, 2007 @ 2:45pm neoform

FOX News -- Independence, Mo. police say that three suspects led cops on a high-speed car chase just so they could videotape it. According to police, the suspects said they wanted to sell the video to the media. The chase started when an officer noticed a Musta.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jul 10, 2007 @ 11:31am neoform

FOX News -- A 1,500-pound wrecking ball broke loose from a crane cable and raced downhill, smashing into several cars and injuring three people before coming to rest in the trunk of a car at an intersection Monday. The wrecking ball, about 3 feet across, was being.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 13, 2007 @ 4:33pm neoform

FOX News -- Police in northwest Georgia have rescued a boy from a hot car where his mother's companion is accused of tying him up. Ringgold, Georgia, police say a Cracker Barrel restaurant employee called police after seeing Raymond Minchew take the six-year-old o.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri May 25, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

FOX News -- A man who portrayed Bob Cratchit in "A Christmas Carol" and then lost his wife and two children hours later in a Christmas Eve car crash asked for mercy Thursday for the drunken driver responsible. Carlos Prieto was sentenced to up to 10 years in priso.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 22, 2007 @ 8:01am neoform

FOX News -- A driver who was stopped for speeding and tested over the legal limit for blood-alcohol content, but was not arrested, was killed less than three hours later Monday when his car hit a tree, according to police. Janesville police records indicate that J.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun May 13, 2007 @ 7:48pm neoform

FOX News -- A Colorado woman is living miracle, doctors say, after a car crash separated her skull from her spine, literally decapitating her from the inside, according to a Denver news report. Shannon Malloy, 30, hit her head on the dashboard of a vehicle she was.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 30, 2007 @ 4:56pm neoform

FOX News -- The Supreme Court on Monday gave police officers protection from lawsuits that result from high-speed car chases, ruling against a Georgia teenager who was paralyzed after his car was run off the road. In a case that turned on a video of the chase in s.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 30, 2007 @ 4:51pm neoform

CNN -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday gave police officers significant protection from lawsuits by suspects who lead them on car chases. The justices ruled 8-1 against Georgia teenager Victor Harris, who was left a quadriplegic after a police vehicle rammed.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 23, 2007 @ 3:09pm neoform

Los Angeles Times -- A Virginia Tech freshman who returned home with his family after last week's campus massacre was killed in a car crash, his father said Sunday. Jeff Soriano died from his injuries Friday in a Norfolk, Va., hospital after he was pulled from the wreckage.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 10, 2007 @ 11:42pm neoform

MSNBC -- A police search of former astronaut Lisa Nowak's car turned up bondage photos on a computer disk, British currency and pills, according to documents released Tuesday by prosecutors. A judge last week agreed to unseal some of the documents in the Nowak'.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 10, 2007 @ 12:51am neoform

FOX News -- A Nebraska woman was charged with neglect of a dependent person after leaving her husband unattended in a car outside a casino. Judy Lea Fairbanks, 52, of Bellevue, Neb., was charged Saturday after she was found gambling at the Horseshoe Casino in Coun.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Mar 24, 2007 @ 12:23pm neoform

USA Today -- A woman accused of rendering a friend a paraplegic by pulling her out of a wrecked car "like a rag doll" may not be protected by California's good Samaritan law, an appellate court ruled. The 2nd District Court of Appeal wrote in a decision Wednesday t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Mar 17, 2007 @ 1:39pm neoform

USA Today -- Anhydrous ammonia leaked from a railroad tank car Saturday and the fumes led authorities to evacuate several homes in southern Lake City. There were no immediate reports of injuries, the Wabasha County sheriff's office said. The leaking car was part.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 3, 2007 @ 3:39pm mrmdc

Washington Post -- Kevin Watt crouched down to search the rusted Cadillac he had stopped for cruising the parking lot of a Raleigh apartment complex with a broken light. He pulled out two open Bud Light cans, an empty Corona bottle, rolling papers, a knife, a hammer, a ster.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Nov 23, 2006 @ 6:44pm neoform

worldnetdaily.com -- A man who grabbed a 14-year-old girl's arm to chastise her after she walked in front of his car, causing him to swerve to avoid hitting her, must register as a "sex offender," the Appellate Court of Illinois has ruled... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Apr 10, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- For the second time in less than a week, a motorist on a Bay Area freeway was shot and killed. On Wednesday night, a man driving a burgundy Honda with two children in the back seat was fired upon by a person riding in another car on Interstate 280 in S.. Read More