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"He's a bit banged up, but it's nothing overly serious," a representative with the mayor's office said, according to the Bay Area's FOX 2. The mayor was believed to be suffering a broken collarbone, a broken chest bone and injuries to his neck and back, the Mercury News of San Jose reported, citing Liccardo's best friend, Carl Guardino. The accident happened when the driver of the 2002 SUV was making a right turn, said Guardino, who is president and CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group. “This is the fear of every cyclist,” said Guardino, who often bikes with the...

Lee was taken into custody in Tustin Wednesday hours after firefighters battled an early morning fire at the victim’s home in Diamond Bar. No one was found inside, but Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department investigators had reason to believe the daughter-in-law of the woman who lived at the had set the fire and fled with her body, authorities said at the time. Lee was stopped in a SUV filled with plastic bags, and a detective on seen said he saw body parts inside as it was towed away for evidence. The remains of 77-year-old Young Ja Lee were found inside...

A New Zealand man got the fright of his life when a runaway SUV crashed into his house and knocked him off the toilet, a newspaper reported Friday. The vehicle had been parked with its emergency brake only half on, and rolled backward down a 32 foot bank into the house Thursday in the southern city of Christchurch, "The Press" newspaper reported. Police said a building contractor working next door had parked the vehicle at the top of the bank minutes earlier. "He came back to his vehicle and found it next door, basically," Christchurch police Sgt. Kim Reid was...

CROWN POINT, Ind. -- Lake County police said a secret compartment found in a sport utility vehicle pulled over for speeding contained $440,000 in cash. Lake County Sheriff Rogelio "Roy" Dominguez said Monday's discovery during the routine traffic stop was his agency's biggest ever single cash seizure. Police said the Ford Explorer's driver seemed nervous when he stopped the vehicle on Interstate 80/94 for speeding. A police dog indicated something suspicious was hidden in the back of the Explorer, leading a deputy to the secret compartment. The vehicle's driver told officers she didn't know the vehicle had a secret compartment....

CBS) SKY VALLEY, Calif. An SUV crashed and overturned when it collided with a sedan in Sky Valley Sunday, trapping and injuring people inside the larger vehicle, a California Highway Patrol dispatcher said. The crash was reported at 5:42 p.m. near Dillon Road and Prospect Street in Sky Valley, the dispatcher said. It was not immediately clear how many people were injured, the dispatcher said.

Saudis May Ban Letter ‘X’ Monday, Jan. 15, 2007 A group of Islamic clergy in Saudi Arabia has condemned the letter "X” because of its similarity to a hated banned symbol – the cross. The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, which has the ultimate say in all legal, civil and governance matters in the kingdom, issued a fatwa, or religious edict, against the "X.” It came in response to a Ministry of Trade query about whether a Saudi businessman could be granted trademark protection for a new service with the English name "Explorer.” The request...

Driver Of Vehicle In Police Custody (CBS) RIVERSIDE -- A fiery crash stopped traffic on a Metra line Wednesday evening after a police pursuit involving a drug investigation. CBS 2’s Rob Johnson reports the suspect who managed to escape the SUV before it burst into flames has been captured. The driver of the SUV that overturned on the Metra tracks in west suburban Riverside, causing long train delays during the Wednesday evening rush, was in police custody Wednesday night awaiting charges. Metra trains on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Line between Aurora and Chicago's Union Station were completely stopped just...

One person was killed and at least 14 others injured when a rampaging man intentionally targeted pedestrians with his sport utility vehicle in San Francisco and Fremont on Tuesday afternoon, according to police. The driver, Omeed Aziz Popal, 29, of Fremont, was taken into custody on suspicion of 14 counts of attempted murder and one count of willful flight after causing serious injury or death, according to San Francisco police Sgt. Neville Gittens. The spree apparently began around noon across the bay, where Fremont Police Sgt. Chris Mazzone said a 55-year old man was struck and killed by a black...

DRUMS, Pa. - A sport utility vehicle crashed head-on into a line of motorcycles on a charity ride, killing one person and injuring several others, authorities said. William Delaney Jr., 41, was killed Sunday when his motorcycle was struck by the Chevrolet Blazer after it crossed the center line, said William J. Feissner, a Butler Township police officer. Delaney's wife, Linda Delaney, 40, who was riding on the back of the motorcycle, was listed in critical condition Monday at a hospital. Two other motorcyclists were critically injured and at least three others were hospitalized with noncritical injuries, Feissner said Sunday....

Officers raid wrong house - Resident says family traumatized By: WILLIAM FINN BENNETT - Staff Writer MURRIETA ---- When Mapleton resident Rodolfo Celis heard a knock on his door last Saturday night, he said he never suspected anything was amiss. That is, until he opened the door and looked down the barrel of a rifle. Several Murrieta police officers then entered his home in the 33500 block of Eugenia Lane, he said. They herded the 54-year-old father and five of his family members, including two young children, into the living room and sat them on a couch at gunpoint, he...

Ford recalls 792,000 trucks, SUVs Cruise-control switches can cause engine fires 02:27 PM CST on Thursday, January 27, 2005 Bloomberg News Ford Motor Co. recalled 792,000 light trucks from the 2000 and 2001 model years, including F-150 pickups and Expedition sport-utility vehicles, because a cruise-control switch can cause engine fires. The action involves some 2000 F-150s, Expeditions and Navigator SUVs, as well as 2001 F-Series Supercrew pickups, the Dearborn, Michigan-based company said in a statement today. Ford plans to initially disconnect the switch and then ask vehicle owners to return when enough replacement parts are available.

One person is dead after an SUV fleeing from state troopers headed the wrong way across the Howard Frankland Bridge and crashed into oncoming traffic early this morning. Investigators say that a Honda CRV was involved in a minor fender-bender in the Kennedy-Westshore area around 1:40 a.m., but when troopers arrived on the scene, the vehicle took off, striking a trooper in the process. "The gentleman in the vehicle refused all FHP trooper commands to stop and step out of the vehicle, backed his car into two FHP patrol cars, and struck Trooper Maddox with the Florida Highway Patrol's Tampa...