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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...

One man has died and at least 14 people were injured when a Fremont man purposefully drove his sport-utility vehicle onto sidewalks and crosswalks in San Francisco and Fremont today, according to San Francisco police. The victims appear to include a Fremont man, a 78-year-old man who was using a cane to cross the street when he was struck, and a woman in her 70s. Earlier reports that a child was injured was incorrect.

(08-29) 15:20 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- As many as 14 people were injured this afternoon by a motorist who drove around San Francisco running them down before he was arrested, authorities said. Seven of those injured were in critical condition, police and firefighters said. Authorities have identified the man who was arrested as Ohmeed Aziz Popal, who has an address in Ceres. Authorities said they believe Popal was the same driver who ran over a 55-year-old man walking in a bicycle lane in Fremont, at Fremont Boulevard near Ferry Lane, just after noon. That victim died. Popal was arrested at...

The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating how an illegal immigrant accused in a hit-and-run case that killed an off-duty police officer allegedly got his hands on a counterfeit Florida identification card. Miguel Garduña-Gonzalez, 43, spoke to WESH 2's partner station Telemundo about what happened earlier this week when he allegedly hit and killed Haines City Officer Phoenix Braithwaite. During a jailhouse interview, a tearful and remorseful Gonzalez spoke about his wife and four kids. Police said Gonzalez, who is an illegal immigrant, was behind the wheel of a minivan when it struck Braithwaite on Wednesday. Braithwaite was on his motorcycle...

NEW YORK According to a published report, Ann Coulter has (in jest, we assume) claimed to have sent that mysterious white powder to The New York Times. Reporter Jacob Bernstein, in a "Memo Pad" item in today's Women's Wear Daily, wrote that he received a message from a New York Times source saying that Friday's powder mailing -- which included an Xed-out Times editorial and what ended up being corn starch -- "makes all of Ann Coulter's comments a little less funny. I wonder if she considers herself at all responsible when lunatics read her columns and she says that...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Talk-show host Rush Limbaugh is canceling his international travel plans in the near future, saying he doesn't want to be "framed" by U.S. Customs officials after last week's incident when he was detained for more than three hours for possession of Viagra prescribed in his doctor's name. "It takes one time, and I've got red flags up, and I'm not going to put myself in the position of being framed," Limbaugh said today on his national radio broadcast. "With all this partisanship that's out there, I'm just not going to make it easy for people...

An alleged hit-and-run driver who police say struck a 20-year-old man was chased down and beaten by the victim’s older brother Thursday night in South Waco. Michael Campbell, 26, was in front of his house in the 3000 block of Mildred Street as his younger brother and two friends were walking home about 9:25 p.m., Waco Police Department spokesman Steve Anderson said. As they got closer to home, Michael Campbell saw a Chevrolet Cavalier driven by 20-year-old Arturo Martinez speeding down the road. The two friends jumped over a parked car to get out of the Cavalier’s way, Anderson said....

AMONG THE MANY measures and half-measures that are being proposed to solve the crisis of illegal immigration, there have been some real doozies: a 700-mile wall to keep people out (or in?); a temporary guest-worker program that may end up harming both American and Mexican employees; even a scheme for the largest mass deportation in U.S. history. But here's one good idea you won't hear about. Let's allow the North American Free Trade Agreement to live up to its promise and permit citizens of Canada, the United States and Mexico to move and work freely among the three countries. ...There...

WOODLAND - A Yolo Superior Court judge on Monday dismissed a controversial misdemeanor hit-and-run case that prompted a protest in Davis by people who claimed the case was an example of selective prosecution of a person of color.*snip*The girl claims she was questioned by a male police officer without another person present, in violation of Muslim beliefs.

This week's Voldemort Award goes to the New York Times for its account of a curious case of road rage in North Carolina: "The man charged with nine counts of attempted murder for driving a Jeep through a crowd at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill last Friday told the police that he deliberately rented a four-wheel-drive vehicle so he could 'run over things and keep going.' " The driver in question was Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar. Whoa, don't jump to conclusions, the Times certainly didn't. As the report continued: "According to statements taken by the police, Mr. Taheri-azar,...

Somewhere out there is the woman whose beat-up sedan crashed into flesh and bone one night just before Christmas and then sped away, leaving Elias Geha to die on a Glendale street. "If I find the person, I would say: At least have some decency to stop by and say, 'I'm sorry, it was an accident,"' said John Balta, Geha's brother-in-law. "If it was a mistake, that's fine. But how can someone live like that? How can they sleep at night? If you hit a dog, you feel so sorry for the dog. But this was a human being." The...

One of two brothers struck by a hit-and-run driver outside a Mattydale bar died from his injures Sunday morning and the other brother is fighting for his life. Gerald A. Masterpol, 24, Mattydale, died at 10:45 a.m. at University Hospital, where he was rushed after the incident at 2 a.m. Saturday, deputies said. His brother, Jeffrey T. Masterpol, 23, remained in critical condition Sunday night at the hospital, a spokeswoman said. Michael J. Henderson, 20, of 4312 Heritage Drive, Clay, was charged Saturday with three counts of first-degree assault. Deputies said Henderson and Richard Gillings, 24, of Mattydale got into...

Susan Gengler-Liermann was named Dodge County's Citizen of the Year at a banquet Friday night in Beaver Dam and, for a woman who jokes she hasn't won anything since being designated Betty Crocker's "Homemaker of Tomorrow" while attending Pius XI High School back in 1973, it's a pretty big award. Although, to anyone who lives in any of the other 71 counties in this state and knows what she did for her son Jimmy, not to mention the rest of us, not nearly big enough. Jimmy was late biking home from his job the night authorities came to his mom's...

Studies suggest high rate has link to illegal migrants Arizona consistently has one of the nation's highest rates of fatal hit-and-run crashes. And some statistical evidence suggests the state's large number of illegal immigrants is one reason. An Arizona Daily Star analysis of nearly 10,000 fatal crashes in the state from 1994 through 2004 found that drivers left the scene in 5.6 percent of the accidents. That's a higher rate of hit-and-runs than in any state except California. Just in 2004, 77 people in Arizona died in hit-and-runs. Over the past decade, half of Arizona's fatal hit-and-runs involved pedestrians —...

A Glendale man who fled the scene of a collision that left Burbank man, 18, dead has been captured at the Canadian border, apparently on his way to Armenia. Andranik Manukovich Atshemyan, 23, was detained at the Canadian border last week, according to the Burbank Police Department. Canadian authorities said Atshemyan's travel plans included a flight to Armenia. The collision occurred Nov. 19 about 9:40 p.m. at Columbus Avenue and Riverdale Drive, police said. The scene left two men in critical condition. Oscar Torres, 18, of Burbank died five days later. Glendale homicide detectives are expected to return with...

The press is pretending that Rep. John Murtha had been a longtime, staunch supporter of the Iraq war right up until yesterday's "shocking reversal," when the Pennsylvania Democrat abruptly called for an immediate U.S. pull out. In fact, Murtha began advocating a cut-and-run strategy way back in May 2004 - after U.S. forces had been in Iraq just a little more than a year. Standing at the time next to San Francisco-based House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi - who was last seen defending her city's decision to ban military recruiters from public school property - the allegedly pro-war Murtha proclaimed...

I submit to you good people, what if Fitzgerald hands down no indictment? First, will the media perform a mea cupla, mea maximia cupla? Will the CIA get the house cleaning it needs? Will Joe Wilson finally shut up? Or will we hear the phrases, narrowly escaped, intense pressure from the White House, a deal was reached, from the MSM? You opinions leavened with humor, as you please.