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Dr. Ben Carson has just announced he is suspending his run for the presidency temporarily. Some of his staff members were in a serious accident today… one of them is in grave condition. Carson will fly to Omaha to be with that staff member’s family. Three student volunteers and a campaign staffer were in the vehicle that slid on an icy road. Just this weekend, Carson took the stage at the South Carolina Tea Party Coalition Convention in Myrtle Beach, where he told enthusiasts that “every venue” during his latest Iowa swing “was standing room only.” He added, “I believe...

WASHINGTON – During the weeks before he was killed in a car crash in Los Angeles, reporter Michael Hastings was researching a story about a privacy lawsuit brought by Florida socialite Jill Kelley against the Department of Defense and the FBI. Hastings, 33, was scheduled to meet with a representative of Kelley next week in Los Angeles to discuss the case, according to a person close to Kelley. Hastings wrote for Rolling Stone and the website BuzzFeed. Kelley alleges that military officials and the FBI leaked her name to the media to discredit her after she reported receiving a stream...

Charlie Sheen's Mercedes-Benz was found in an embankment off Mulholland Drive Tuesday morning. The car, which may have been stolen, is the second vehicle owned by Sheen to be found off the same bluff in four months. Los Angeles police Sgt. John Buckley confirmed that the car belonged to the actor, who said he left it in his driveway about 4 p.m. Monday. A security guard reported the crash shortly before 3 a.m. Firefighters searched around the car, but no one was believed to have been inside when it went off the road. The vehicle was being recovered and the...

Eight people have died and 40 have been injured when the driver of a truck lost control and ploughed into a wedding procession in western India, police said. All the victims were friends of the groom accompanying him to the wedding late on Monday in a village near Jaipur, capital of western Rajasthan state, B.L. Soni, a senior police officer told AFP. "It appears the driver was speeding and lost control of the vehicle, mowing down those who were walking along the road," Soni said on Tuesday. The groom was safe, but some relatives sustained minor injuries, the officer added....

Indianapolis - Five people were killed Sunday afternoon when the van they were riding in flipped on Interstate 69. The van was carrying families from Amish communities in New Haven and Rockville. State police say at one point last night they had seven helicopters lined up in the northbound lane of I-69 to transport the victims. Some were taken to Indianapolis hospitals, others to Fort Wayne. Five were pronounced dead at the scene. State police say around 4:45 pm Sunday afternoon, a 15-passenger van was headed southbound on I-69 when it left the roadway, crossed the median and flipped several...

State Sen. Carole Migden rear-ended a car on Highway 12 Friday that left one person with minor injuries, the California Highway Patrol said. Migden, D-San Francisco, was reaching for her cell phone and took her eyes off the road just before she hit a 2005 Honda sedan, the senator's office said in a statement. Migden was on her way to a meeting in Marin County. "She was not injured, and later passed a routine breathalyzer test and then she drove her car home," the statement said. The driver of the Honda suffered minor injuries and was taken to a hospital....

> Freep Friends > > Saturdayday morning, circa 1000 hours, I received a call from a stranger > informing me that my #3 daughter was involved in a "very serious > accident". > > My world exploded! > > Turns out my daughter was struck by another driver as she crossed a > major suburban parkway. The other driver ran a red-light and struck my > daughter. > > She was driving our family SUV (Saturn Vue) and was struck on the > driver side, right between the doors ("on the pillar"). The car that > struck her was traveling...

Daniel Adam Brady, the 20-year-old son of RCF President Stephen Brady, passed away on August 23 at 3:30 pm. He received the Last Rites of the Catholic Church. A Mass of Christian Burial was held on Saturday at St. Peter's in Petersburg - Fr. Charles Dahlby was the celebrant. Your prayers are requested. To sign the condolence book please click here. The young lady in the opposing vehicle in this automobile accident is Janelle Harrell, 34. She, too has been seriously injured. Please keep her along with Danny and their families in your prayers. Many of you are familiar...

The Flushing YMCA said four people were killed in an accident on the New York State Thruway at 7 a.m. en route to a swimming meet in Buffalo, N.Y. The victims included a 47-year-old woman, her two sons and a 14-year-old girl, who died when a tanker truck slammed into their minivan, New York 1 reported. Two other passengers in the vehicle were removed from the battered minivan and taken to a local area hospital, New York 1 reported. In addition, the driver of the tanker truck was taken to the hospital, according to New York 1. Neither the Flushing...

ALLIGATOR ALLEY DEATHS Feb. 27, 2005 `But they are with God now' Relatives in Fort Myers are grieving for four people who were found dead in a Broward County canal more than a week after family members reported them missing. BY EVAN S. BENN AND KEVIN DEUTSCH For 10 agonizing days, Gerline Sainval waited for police to call her Fort Myers home with good news about her aunt, uncle, cousin and a friend who had disappeared on their way to Lee County from Miami International Airport on Feb. 15. Instead, the call she received Friday night was devastating: Police found...

Former U.S. Rep. Wes Watkins will likely face a misdemeanor charge in the fatal car crash that killed a couple and left five children without parents, the district attorney said Tuesday. District Attorney Rob Hudson said he will likely charge Watkins with misdemeanor negligent homicide this week if the trooper’s written report of Monday’s accident matches the verbal account given Hudson. The charge would carry a maximum of one year in jail, but Hudson said the facts and Watkins’ remorse make it doubtful he would seek any jail time for the former seven-term congressman. “You’re basically looking at a probation...

Condolences to the family of this Trooper. Another one of our Finest gone. Radio reports state that the suspect was apprehended. Guess he will get 15 to 20 and be back out as a 40 something year old felon, according to NJ law!

Guilt ad leads to charges 02/08/2003 Associated Press CORPUS CHRISTI - Prosecutors have filed criminal charges against a man who took out a full-page newspaper advertisement to confess his guilt in a deadly automobile accident. In the ad in the Jan. 26 edition of the Corpus Christi Caller-Times , Regino Salinas wrote that he was talking on his cellphone when he drove through a red light, causing a Jan. 11 crash that killed two people. "I allowed myself to be distracted, and I didn't give my driving all the attention it deserved," he wrote. Mr. Salinas warned other drivers...

2 killed, 1 seriously hurt in Richardson accident 01/06/2003 By MATT STILES / The Dallas Morning News Two people were killed and a teenager was seriously injured Sunday evening when a car collided with a minivan at a Richardson intersection then smashed into a utility pole, police said. The accident at East Belt Line Road and Yale Boulevard killed the car's 19-year-old driver, who was identified as Nicolaza Estrada of Garland. A 24-year-old passenger, Martin Quintana of Garland, was pronounced dead a short time later at a Richardson hospital. A 15-year-old Garland boy, whose name was not released, was...

Trapped man survives by eating fast-food sauce 12/09/2002 Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A man trapped for nearly a week in his car after it plunged into a ravine survived in the freezing cold by burning paper, melting snow for water and eating packets of fast-food sauce, rescuers say. Robert Ward, 32, suffered a broken hip in the crash and could not get out of the car. He was found Sunday by his friend Terry Likens, captain of the fire department where Ward is a volunteer emergency medical technician. "I don't think he would have made it through the...