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Omaha police have arrested a 24-year-old woman in connection with Monday's fatal hit-and-run crash at 42nd and Q Streets. Police said Flor Campos was neither the driver nor a passenger in the pickup that hit a car driven by 27-year-old Ronald E. Rydberg. According to police reports, Campos drove the pickup's driver from Omaha to a Kansas City, Mo., bus station so the pickup driver and his brother could flee to Mexico.

Eight months after he got hit by Channel 7 anchorman Rick Sanchez's Volvo, Jeffrey Smuzinick is doing poorly. His family is just plain doing poor. ...Minutes after midnight on the morning of December 10, 1990, an intoxicated Smuzinick darted out in front of a Volvo on a residential street near Joe Robbie Stadium. The driver of the car, WSVN-TV Channel 7 anchorman Rick Sanchez, became the subject of a subsequent January 16 New Times story that described the odd circumstances of the accident. Sanchez, whom a Metro-Dade police officer said "smelled strongly of alcohol," first stopped his car but then...

A day lot and millions of dollars short.

State Senator Anthony Galluccio was cited Monday for leaving the scene of an accident after he allegedly collided with a vehicle carrying three people on Sunday afternoon in Cambridge and then fled. Galluccio, a Cambridge Democrat, collided with the other vehicle at about 5:30 p.m. as he was driving around Garden and Linnaean streets, said officer Frank Pasquarello, spokesman for the Cambridge Police Department.

On Friday’s Newsroom, CNN’s Rick Sanchez correctly pointed out that a full-page color ad by the Fox News Channel incorrectly claimed that his network missed the massive September 12 Tea Party rally in Washington, DC, but went on to paper over CNN’s own double-standard on covering left-wing protests versus conservative protests. Sanchez also accused Fox News of trying to “promote” the Tea Parties. During the segment, which began 13 minutes into the 3 pm Eastern hour, the CNN anchor seemed to be perturbed by Fox News’s ad, which ran in the Washington Post on Friday with one main line: “How...

Eight months after he got hit by Channel 7 anchorman Rick Sanchez's Volvo, Jeffrey Smuzinick is doing poorly. His family is just plain doing poor. -snip- The driver of the car, WSVN-TV Channel 7 anchorman Rick Sanchez, became the subject of a subsequent January 16 New Times story that described the odd circumstances of the accident. Sanchez, whom a Metro-Dade police officer said "smelled strongly of alcohol," first stopped his car but then later left the scene. A blood test to determine Sanchez's sobriety was not administered until an hour and fifteen minutes after the collision. Though Sanchez says he...

UPDATE AT END OF POST: FNC's Julie Banderas responds. Did you know that if you're Hispanic and work for the Fox News Channel, you're a sellout? Well, that's what CNN's Rick Sanchez amazingly believes.

A Marysville man was being held in the Sutter County Jail on Monday afternoon on suspicion of hit-and-run driving in connection with an accident in which a 72-year-old woman was injured, according to the Sutter County Sheriff's Department. Juan Alfonso Urbina, 23, was arrested at 12:20 p.m. Sunday, about a half-hour after a driver hit a Live Oak woman at Highway 99 and Elm Street, sending her to the hospital, Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Brenda Baker said.

COLORADO SPRINGS — A pregnant woman was running from a bear when she darted into the road and was struck by a car, said the Colorado Springs Police Department. Ashley Swendsen, 26, was struck this afternoon, near the intersection of Woodmen Drive and Vincent Drive on the city's northwest side. The motorist drove off. Swendsen was taken to Memorial Hospital and is in stable condition. Officer Robert Patterson of the Falcon Division said he doesn't know how the chase began but that bears frequently use drainage ditches in the area as a crossing. Police and the Department of Wildlife located...

King of pop Michael Jackson may have been involved in a bizarre hit-and-run collision with an ambulance in Beverly Hills on Wednesday afternoon, a medic said Wednesday. Emergency medical technician Jamin Mauro and his partner were idling outside Cedars-Sinai hospital when a black Cadillac Escalade plowed into their vehicle, sideswiping the ambulance and knocking a mirror off the emergency vehicle. The driver then hopped out of the vehicle with an umbrella, walked to the hospital doors and met Jackson, Mauro said. Mauro said a nurse confirmed that Jackson had been in the building. The EMT said that the man resembled...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The second suspect in the hit-and-run crash that killed a USC student is out on jail. "At this point I do not understand our justice system," said Carmen Bachan, mother. Carmen Bachan is grieving and frustrated. Her 18-year-old daughter, Adrianna, was killed in a heinous hit-and-run. Fellow USC student Marcus Garfinkle was critically injured. Now just one of the suspect's who was just arrested is free on bail.

Los Angeles, CA (AP) -- A man suspected of pulling a badly injured USC student off a car windshield after a deadly hit-and-run accident was arrested while trying to cross back into the United States from Mexico, police said Saturday. Josue (HOH'-sway) Luna, 32, of Los Angeles, was detained by federal agents at the San Ysidro border crossing at about 5:30 p.m. Friday after his name prompted a computer alert that he was wanted in Los Angeles, LAPD Officer April Harding said. Luna was driven back to Los Angeles by LAPD officers and jailed on suspicion of being an accessory...

Neighboring edge-of-Appalachia dairy farmer wrecks car on way home from bar. Gets a ride home, answers door when cops knock. When cops ask, admits that wrecked car is his, and that he'd been drinking at a bar. Cops haul him to closest clinic emergency room (15 miles) for blood alcohol test, subsequently charge Driving Under the Influence of alcohol. Have heard from Christian radio shows interviewing purported Christian lawyers (oxymoron?) that anyone who ever answers any cops' question about anything is probably taking an un-necessary risk.

By David Paulin It was one of the strangest hit-and-runs police had ever seen in Austin, Texas. Early last September, officers answering a call at 4:19 a.m. found a young man dead along a highway. They surmised he was a motorcyclist. He was, after all, wearing motorcycle garb – a helmet, black-leather jacket, boots. A few hundred feet away, officers spotted a single skid mark running down the highway, and disappearing from sight. Oddly, no motorcycle could be found. A check of the victim's driver's license revealed his name: Eric M. Laufer. Laufer, 25, was a highly-regarded musician and...

MARSHALL, Minn. — One mother said she missed the sound of her little girl playing piano. Another said her surviving daughters used to play "wedding" with their dolls; now they play "funeral." Both said the Feb. 19 school bus crash that killed four children and injured 16 others near Cottonwood also killed an innocence that will never return. "This crime demands justice," said Rita Javens, mother of Hunter and Jesse, two brothers who died in the southwestern Minnesota collision. The community got some measure of justice Wednesday morning, when Olga Franco del Cid was sentenced to 12 1/2 years in...

An Owasso man is searching for answers after his wife's death in a hit-and-run accident. As a former police officer and fire chief, Bob Shouse believes that when a driver leaves the scene of an accident, that alone is cause for an arrest. That's why he can't understand why the man who fled after crashing an SUV into his wife's motorcycle, causing her death, was never taken into custody and now might have left the country. "My wife and I had a relationship that most people dream for," said Shouse, who lives in Owasso. "The whole family is in shock,...

The video showed cars zooming past and bystanders staring at Torres from the sidewalk. No one in the video stepped forward to help Torres, prompting Roberts to declare, "We no longer have a moral compass."

Hello, everyone!! Been to the pumps lately? Well, let me tell you, it is only going to get worse! But the good news is this, we are finally going to have a President, (John McCain) who is open to the new answers to the problem. If the solution talked about in the following article can be speedily developed, we could possible see one dollar a gallon prices again! Researchers have made a breakthrough in the development of "green gasoline," a liquid identical to standard gasoline yet created from sustainable biomass sources like switchgrass and poplar trees. Reporting in the cover...

San Francisco state Sen. Carole Migden is making the rounds, spending her evenings shaking hands, chatting with voters and asking for their support as she fights to hang on to her political career. Such campaigning is routine for many officeholders, but for Migden, never known as a backslapping pol, it shows how seriously she's taking her June 3 Democratic primary showdown with San Francisco Assemblyman Mark Leno and former San Rafael Assemblyman Joe Nation. In a district where Democrats outnumber Republicans 55 percent to 16 percent, the winner of the Democratic primary will probably be a shoo-in in November's general...

Family members speak with 13 News IRONTON -- A pedestrian is killed after a crash involving an Ironton Police Department Cruiser Saturday night. The Ironton Police Department said the crash occurred around 9th and Jefferson Streets just before 10 p. m. The Ohio Bureau of Investigations has been notified and the Ironton Police Department has asked them to conduct an independent investigation. The victim's family tells 13 News, the victim is Guy Thomas, 46, of Ironton. Family member said Thomas was at the American Legion and left to walk home around 9:30 p.m. From there, family members said information is...

BALTIMORE (AP) — The family of a man killed in a hit-and-run accident in Harford County last week think state police have taken extraordinary steps to protect the identity of a suspect in the case because he is an Anne Arundel County police officer. "Police are being pretty tight-lipped about their side," said attorney Rick Schmidt, speaking on behalf of the family, Mexican natives who do not speak English. "We hope they'll be forthcoming. ... At some point in time, they'll have to put their cards on the table." The suspect's name was redacted from an accident report and removed...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri legislator was charged with a felony Thursday for allegedly driving away after hitting a pedestrian with his pickup truck. Authorities say state Rep. Brad Robinson was driving the truck that hit a 46-year-old man south of St. Louis in the early hours of New Year's Day. His wife, Tara, had told police she was driving, but authorities say a high school's surveillance camera captured the couple switching seats in the truck moments after the accident. The Democratic lawmaker from Bonne Terre was charged with leaving the scene of an accident, and could get up...

TAUNTON (Mass.) (WBZ) ― Prosecutors say the driver charged in the hit-and-run death of a 13-year-old boy in Taunton was text messaging at the time of the incident. Earman Machado was riding a bike on the side of Poole Street just after midnight Thursday when he was struck and killed by a 1995 Ford Explorer. Police say the driver, Craig Bigos, lost control of his SUV while text messaging on his cell phone and did not stop. Bigos, 31, of New Bedford, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Friday in Taunton District Court. He was ordered held on $5,000 bail....

Hit And Run On Air Force Academy Campus Posted: 7:17 AM Dec 4, 2007 Last Updated: 7:17 AM Dec 4, 2007 Reporter: 11 News Email Address: news@kktv11news.com A civilian employee at the U.S. Air Force Academy is dead as the result of a hit-and-run collision near the academy's community center yesterday morning. It happened about 9 a.m. Monday, and kept the north and south entry gates to the campus closed for about four hours. The driver still has not been located.

An Oakland man charged Monday with murdering two children in a Thanksgiving night hit-and-run crash told his 17-year-old nephew moments before impact that he didn't care if he or the teenager died as a result of his speeding, a prosecutor said. Carmelo Salas, 28, was charged with murder in the deaths of Stephanie Cervantez, 14, and her 4-year-old cousin, Jacklin Munguia-Herrera, for allegedly running a stop sign in East Oakland and crashing his Ford Expedition sport utility vehicle into a Ford Mustang carrying the victims about 7:20 p.m. Thursday. ... Salas told his nephew that he wasn't afraid to die...

FALL RIVER -- A 6-year-old girl and her 11-year-old brother were injured early this morning when a van involved in a collision at Morgan and Fourth Streets was pushed up onto the sidewalk and struck the children as they were waiting for a school bus. The girl suffered a head injury and was taken to Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence, the police said. Her brother, whose leg was injured, was taken to St. Anne’s Hospital, where he was reported in good condition this afternoon, according to Sgt. Thomas Mauretti. A man who had been waiting with the children was arrested...

El Monte man lost his wife and two children in a crash that may be linked to other cars' illegal racing. -Snip- Groce's wife, Dora Groce, 41; his son, Robert, 8; and his daughter, Catherine, 4, were killed as Dora Groce pulled the family's Nissan Altima out of the Brookside Mobile Country Club onto Elliott Avenue about 5:40 p.m. The mobile home park is in the heart of the San Gabriel Valley, about 14 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. -Snip- Police said the car was broadsided at Elliott and Parkway Drive, an intersection with stop signs on every corner....

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - There's new information Tuesday morning about a deadly weekend crash on a Nashville interstate ramp. Police now said an immigration hold has been placed on Lorenzo Hernandez Santiz. Investigators now think he's an illegal immigrant from Mexico. Police charged Santiz, who also goes by the name of Jorge Hernandez, with vehicular homicide. Police said Santiz was speeding, and driving drunk when he flipped his SUV early Sunday morning - killing his passenger. Police also said Santiz has been arrested three times in the past year. His charges include unlawful gun possession, DUI, leaving the scene of an...

A man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to driving the wrong way on the Spur between Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg, hitting another vehicle head-on and severely injuring two people. Mario Roberto Diaz-Mourillo, also known as Elmer O. Diaz, pleaded guilty to two counts of motor-vehicle assault resulting in serious injury. He pleaded guilty as charged without a plea agreement. Diaz-Mourillo was driving north in the southbound lanes of the Spur about 10:30 p.m. on May 27 when he struck a vehicle carrying four people. Two of those were seriously injured, including a woman who lost an eye. Witnesses...

As Mesa police continued their search for the suspect in a fatal hit-and-run, a dispute brewed Wednesday about whether people actually stole groceries from the man who was killed. Police ID suspect in fatal hit-run at bus stop Police officers and at least one witness have said bystanders looted a man’s groceries after he was hit by an out-of-control pickup truck driver Tuesday night at a bus stop. But people working nearby — some of whom witnessed the aftermath —said Wednesday there was no looting and that bystanders helped the man, who died at the scene. Witnesses also called 911...

The man accused of running a stop sign and causing a crash this week that killed a 17-year-old Port Washington boy is an illegal immigrant who was convicted in Wisconsin in December of first-offense drunken driving, authorities confirmed Friday. A criminal complaint charging Eddie Carbajal-Lile with hit and run resulting in death also indicates that he consumed five or six beers before the crash Tuesday that killed Paul Watry. Prosecutors would have needed evidence such as a blood test showing he was intoxicated at the time of the crash to charge Carbajal-Lile with homicide by intoxicated use of a motor...

A Guatemalan man who is in the United States illegally was arrested early yesterday on hit-and-run charges after a traffic accident that killed two men and injured three other highway construction workers on the side of U.S. 29 in Montgomery County, police said.

A man accused of driving a car that hit a 6-year-old boy earlier this week is an illegal immigrant and will face deportation proceedings when released from state custody, federal officials said. "(U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)placed a detainer on him so that if he is released from state custody for any reason, he will be released to ICE,” said Carl Rusnok, spokesman for the immigration agency's Dallas-based central region. Gustavo Aldolfo, 26, was arrested after being accused of running over Orlando Carrion as the boy rode his bicycle in southwest Oklahoma City on Monday. Carrion was listed in good...

About 35 Injured When Car Plows Into Street Festival in Washington, D.C. June 03, 2007 Washington - A car plowed through several blocks at a crowded street festival, injuring about 35 people, seven severely, authorities said. The driver was arrested near the scene. Witnesses said strollers were flung into the air and one person was trapped beneath the car's wheels during the chaos Saturday night in the city's Anacostia neighborhood. The injured included two children under age 3 and two police officers who drove their motor scooters into the driver's path in an attempt to stop her, authorities said. Police...

OAKLAND — In what police believe was a successful suicide, a 33-year-old man died early Friday from injuries sustained after deliberately running into traffic at least three times. He was hit by three different vehicles in the 2500 block of East 27th Street shortly before midnight Thursday. None of the drivers stopped and waited for police, investigations said. The man was identified as Shangle Mei of Oakland, said a spokesman from the Alameda County Coroner's Office. Police said Mei's first attempt was unsuccessful when the driver of the vehicle stopped before striking him. The driver got out of the car...

Seeing red May 17, 2007 Eight protesters outside the Chinese consulate in Busan express their anger yesterday over China’s multi-hour delay in rescuing crew members of a South Korean freighter that sank after a collision with a Chinese container ship early Saturday. The ship did not report the accident for more than seven hours after it happened. Foreign Minister Song Min-soon said yesterday he has asked Chinese authorities to look into the situation. Except for life vests, no signs of any of the 16 crew of the Golden Rose have been found. [NEWSIS]

Chinese Vessel Suspected of “Hit-and-Run” Attempt MAY 14, 2007 07:45 Sharp criticism is arising over allegations that the crew on the Chinese container ship Jinsheng neglected the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), after they kept sailing away after colliding with the Korean freighter Golden Rose, leaving 16 lives in need of rescue behind them. “They have irresponsibly broken agreements formed between states by disregarding the seamen crying out for help. The Korean government has to take diplomatic measures to punish this misdeed of the Chinese,” said the families of the missing sailors. Arousing Criticism- Pundits...

The lives of two talented and popular Christchurch teenage girls have been brutally ended after an out-of-control St Albans party on Saturday night came to a horrific end. Jane Ada Young, 16, and Hannah Perkins Rossiter, also 16, were killed and eight others injured when a red Honda Integra car ploughed through a crowd of partygoers spilling on to Edgeware Road about 10.45pm. Two young people hit by the car were still fighting for their lives in Christchurch Hospital last night. Police have charged a 22-year-old factory worker with the murder of the two teenagers. The driver was believed to...

Excerpt - The duration and distance were short, but in those dizzying seconds and feet, Gov. Jon Corzine suffered injuries serious enough to land him in intensive care with a breathing tube down his throat and a doctor declaring him lucky to be alive. The 60-year-old governor underwent about two hours of surgery last night to repair multiple broken bones, including 12 ribs and a femur that protruded through the skin of his thigh following a car accident on the Garden State Parkway in Galloway Township. With two of his adult children by his beside, Corzine, sedated and on intravenous...

HILLSVILLE, Va. (AP) -- A Virginia man has admitted in court he was the driver in an accident more than a half century ago that killed a 74-year-old man on his way to church. Verlyn Brady, 77, pleaded guilty Thursday to reckless driving in the 1953 hit-and-run death of George Lewis Dalton.

Motorcyclist Suffers Life-Threatening Injuries TITUSVILLE, Fla. -- The driver of a pickup is accused of leaving the scene of a crash Sunday after colliding with a motorcylist who ended up in the bed of his truck, according to Titusville police. Lewis Spicuzza, 68, of Macon, Ga., was driving a 1994 Chevrolet pickup southbound on Brown Avenue around 3:30 p.m. when he ran a stop sign at Garden Street, pulling into the path of a motorcyclist, police said. The unidentified motorcycle driver struck Lewis' pickup and landed in the back of the truck, according to a police report. Police said Lewis...

Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Al Unser Jr. has been arrested on suspicion of drunk driving and hit-and-run, Nevada police said on Friday. Unser was taken into custody near Henderson, Nevada, on Thursday after he failed field sobriety tests given to him by officers investigating a hit-and-run, Nevada State Trooper Kevin Honea said. Unser, 44, was booked on charges of hit-and-run, failing to report an accident, making an unsafe lane change and driving under the influence of alcohol. Honea said troopers responded to an accident outside Las Vegas shortly after 11 a.m. on Thursday in which a car crashed into a...

The suspected driver of a pickup truck that slammed into a family of four, killing a mother and her two young children in a stroller, was drunk, according to charges announced in court Sunday. Becca Bingham, 39, of Denver, and her two children, 4-year-old Macie and 2-year-old Garrison, were killed in the downtown hit-and-run crash Friday night that stunned the city. The children's father and Becca's husband, Frank Bingham, 41, survived and was listed in fair condition Sunday at Denver Health Medical Center with bruises and nerve damage to his right arm. Lawrence Trujillo, 36, appeared in court Sunday, wearing...

My lovely living boy, My hope, my happiness My love, my life, my joy. Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas. (1544–1590) Because of An Illegal Alien. The Linden's Lovely, Living Boy, Is No Longer with Them.

by Mark Finkelstein October 18, 2006 - 08:18 Let's try an experiment. Imagine that, like me, you were watching the opening of this morning's 'Today.' You hear Matt Lauer - teasing upcoming stories - say: "A mystery on the roads. A dramatic increase in hit-and-run accidents nationwide. What is going on?" OK, quick: what comes to mind? I immediately thought of the increase in illegal immigration in our country. How about you? And so I waited to see how 'Today' would deal with the issue of illegal immigration. And waited. And . . . That's right. In discussing the apparent...

A woman is dead after she was struck by several vehicles while trying to run across Southwest Freeway Wednesday night. Police said around 10:25 p.m. Wednesday, a woman attempted to run across four lanes of traffic on the 6800 block of Southwest Freeway near Hillcroft Avenue when she was struck by an unknown vehicle traveling north The driver of the vehicle did not stop. Her body was then struck by at least 4 more vehicles and an 18-wheeler. None of the vehicles stopped after striking the woman's body except the driver of the second vehicle. Police said motorist may not...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The 29-year-old Fremont man accused of 18 counts of attempted murder stemming from a hit-and-run rampage last week entered a not-guilty plea today, but his attorney quickly withdrew it pending the outcome of a psychiatric evaluation. Omeed Aziz Popal was chained at the waist and ankles and looked bewildered during his brief appearance in San Francisco Superior Court before Judge Donna Little. At one point, he looked around the courtroom and slowly raised his right hand as if in prayer. He then put his hand down and bowed his head. The court was packed with Popal's family...

What would possess a Muslim motorist to drive around San Francisco Bay Area streets in his SUV and deliberately run over pedestrians, including kids? Insanity, shrugs the mainstream media. Omeed Aziz Popal was taken into custody Tuesday after a hit-and-run spree that terrorized pedestrians, bicyclists and motorists for a full hour, killing one and injuring 14. The news treated the bloody rampage like a random act of violence. Those in the media who didn't brush it off as an "inexplicable tragedy" before moving on to the next story focused on the alleged mental illness and not the religion of suspect...

From the Bay area Mercury News [excerpted]: Relatives: Rampage suspect may have been stressed over weddingBy James Hohmann and Katherine CorcoranRelatives of a Fremont man connected to Tuesday's deadly driving rampage said he may have been distraught after returning recently from Afghanistan without his newlywed wife who is waiting for a visa.Omeed Aziz Popal, 29, who sources said was being held by the San Francisco police, was normally a kind and gentle person, said Hamid Nekrawesh, 43, a first cousin in Fremont.But a recent trip to Afghanistan to participate in an arranged marriage could have caused him a lot of...

One person has been killed and at least 14 injured in the San Francisco area on Tuesday after a driver targeted pedestrians on crosswalks and sidewalks, police allege. Pedro Adluguv, 70, is carried to an ambulance after he was hit by a car while crossing a street in San Francisco, Tuesday. (Penni Gladstone/San Francisco Chronicle/Associated Press) Seven people were in critical condition in the series of hit-and-run incidents, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The spree began around noon in the Fremont district, where a 55-year-old man walking on the side of the road was struck. He was thrown into a...