Date: 4/10/2009 BETH HARRISAP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jim Adenhart walked to the empty pitcher’s mound in Angels Stadium where his son spent the last night of his life. He spent several quiet moments there, briefly covering his…
Pa. driver charged in deaths of charity walkers, both 72, from Puerto Rico
Date: 12/6/2008 HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A central Pennsylvania man was charged with careless driving in the deaths of a couple who were struck as they walked to a fundraiser. David K. Shiery, 47, of Enola, was speeding when his…
NC teen who studied crash deaths dies in wreck
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 —…
Evansville Woman Dies in Crash with County Coroner Vehicle
Date: 10/31/2008EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Marguerite Stewart, 89, was fatally injured when the car she was riding in struck a pickup truck belonging to the Vanderburgh County Coroner’s office. Coroner Don Erk said the cause of death appeared to be…
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,…
Mets pitcher Burgos sought in fatal DR crash
Date: 10/1/2008 7:22 PM By DIONISIO SOLDEVILAAssociated Press Writer SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) _ Police were searching for New York Mets pitcher Ambiorix Burgos in his native Dominican Republic on Wednesday after a crash involving his SUV that killed…