Date: 11/10/2008 RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ A North Carolina teenager who studied teen highway deaths as a senior high school project is dead after a crash. Eighteen-year-old Shannon Nicole Adkins graduated last spring after turning in a report about the…
NY police: Teen driver on drugs runs down joggers
Date: 11/7/2008 By FRANK ELTMANAssociated Press Writer GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) _ A teenager on drugs and driving a sport utility vehicle slammed into two runners out for an evening jog, killing one of them — a beloved schoolteacher —…
Santa Fe Opera settles suit over wrong-way crash
Date: 10/23/2008 7:14 PM SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) _ The Santa Fe Opera and the estate of an employee have reached a settlement with relatives of a family killed in a drunken, wrong-way interstate crash triggered by the worker, who…
Austrian rightist was speeding at twice limit
Date: 10/12/2008 10:45 AM By WILLIAM J. KOLEAssociated Press Writer VIENNA, Austria (AP) _ Far-right politician Joerg Haider was speeding at more than twice the posted limit before the car crash that killed him, investigators said Sunday as his grief-stricken…
Police: Fla. driver kills cyclist, hits crowd
Date: 10/9/2008 1:58 PM Police: Fla. driver kills cyclist, hits crowd ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) _ Florida authorities say an erratic driver who refused to stop for police hit and killed a cyclist, then plowed into a crowded parking lot,…
Cubs reliever Carlos Marmol suffers minor injuries in car accident
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Chicago Cubs reliever Carlos Marmol suffered minor injuries in a car accident in the Dominican Republic early Tuesday. A truck hit a car carrying Marmol, a cousin and a friend in his hometown of…
New York Mets reliever Ambiorix Burgos turns himself in to authorities
Date: 10/7/2008 9:47 PM SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — New York Mets pitcher Ambiorix Burgos turned himself in on Tuesday, a week after police say he was involved in a hit-and-run accident that killed two women. Authorities were interviewing…
Police: 10-year-old driver flips van in Tenn.
Date: 10/7/2008 12:44 PM BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ A 10-year-old was driving up to 90 mph when he crashed a van carrying a man who told police he had drank at least 15 beers and a woman who was trying…
Jury acquits SC trooper charged with striking man
Date: 10/3/2008 6:05 PM By JIM DAVENPORTAssociated Press Writer GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) _ A federal jury on Friday acquitted a white South Carolina trooper who bragged about striking a fleeing black suspect with his cruiser in a collision captured on…
Jury weighs whether SC trooper meant to hit man
Date: 10/3/2008 1:34 PM By JIM DAVENPORTAssociated Press Writer GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) _ A jury is deliberating whether a South Carolina trooper intentionally struck a fleeing suspect with his patrol car. Prosecutors say Lance Cpl. Steven Garren deliberately hit suspect…