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Driver police say fatally struck nephew turns himself in
The driver of a fatal hit and run accident that occurred in Aurora on May 21st has turned himself into police and is being questioned about the accident. Rodolfo Pichardo, 21, of the 400 block of Hinman was allegedly backing a vehicle in the driveway
Updated: 05/23/2011 05:26P
Air France 447 said to have stalled on airspeed failure
France's air-accident investigation bureau also declined to comment on the circumstances of the June 1, 2009, crash. Investigators say they are making progress after maritime search and salvage experts retrieved the flight data and cockpit voice
Updated: 05/23/2011 05:26P
Legal reasoning called absurd in special election
AP A state judge says the legal reasoning used by the secretary of state to determine how candidates will be chosen for a special election to fill Nevada's vacant US House seat was "unreasonable and absurd." The 12-page written order released Monday by
Updated: 05/23/2011 05:26P
La Opinin Investigative Special Report: A Country in Arms
May 23, 2011 - La Opinin, the leading Spanish-language daily newspaper in the US, announced today the launch of a powerful new series about the rapid proliferation of guns in the United States. The series will include a multimedia website combined
Updated: 05/23/2011 05:25P
SCOTUS ruling could free 38000
The justices broke along liberal-conservative lines, though the jurist who often serves as a swing vote, Justice Anthony Kennedy, also wrote the majority opinion. Kennedy said the prison population reduction was necessary to improve woefully inadequate
Updated: 05/23/2011 05:25P
Supreme Court upholds order requiring California to reduce prison population
In this 2009 photo a former day room is now used to house prisoners at the California Institution for Men in Chino. While most of California's prisons are bursting at the seams, the state prison in Chino could have been first and
Updated: 05/23/2011 05:23P
I-270 Reopens On West Side After Tanker Crash
(more) By Donna Willis COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Interstate 270 is now reopened after being closed due to a tanker crash Monday morning. Officers and fire crews closed lanes on the city's West Side after a tractor and tanker flipped on its side near Roberts
Updated: 05/23/2011 05:22P
Cops: Uncle surrenders in fatal hit-and-run
The family member was able to convince the uncle to turn himself in, police said. The man lives at the Hinman Street address where the accident occurred. The Tribune is not identifying him because he hasn't been formally charged.
Updated: 05/23/2011 05:22P
Woman charged in hit-and-run in Norfolk
A Norfolk woman has been charged in a hit-and-run crash Thursday that left another woman in serious condition. A woman walking in a crosswalk was seriously injured by a hit-and-run driver Thursday morning at the intersection of
Updated: 05/23/2011 05:22P
Edna M. Barrentine
Survivors include a daughter, Kimberly B. Woodham and husband, Danny, of Spanish Fort; two grandchildren, Allison Woodham, of Mobile and Chloe Woodham of Spanish Fort and a brother-in-law, Haskew Middleton, of Atmore. Services will be held at 3 pm on
Updated: 05/23/2011 05:22P
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