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4 hurt in 3-car crash in Newport, Del.
Delaware State Police say four people have been hurt in a three-vehicle crash in Newport. It happened Monday about 1:25 pm on Churchman's Road. Troopers say a car driven by 32-year-old Sabrina Reed of Wilmington was traveling east when it drifted into
Updated: 05/23/2011 06:46P
NBC29Probe: Speed caused SC train ride derailment
"The only problem was the operator," said investigator and accident reconstruction specialist Charles Manning. "Too fast. That was the complete cause of the accident, just too fast." The train's operator has said he is distraught over the crash but
Updated: 05/23/2011 06:46P
Do photographs of California's overcrowded prisons belong in a Supreme Court
Plata, Justice Anthony Kennedy spent 48 pages carefully explaining why the state must release or relocate some 32000 inmates over the next two years. Then, to drive home his argument, Kennedy attached three grainy black-and-white photographs to the
Updated: 05/23/2011 06:46P
Broken Back No Setback For West Side Man
A car accident back in 1973 limited the use of Jack Waldron's legs, but his hands are like vice grips. They are the back bone of his business, JW Auto Upholstery. "You gotta have pretty strong hands to do this kinda work, you know it?" Waldron said.
Updated: 05/23/2011 06:44P
Preliminary Findings Suggest Pilot Error in Air France Crash
All 228 people aboard died in the accident. The senior captain, Marc Dubois, appears to have been out of the cockpit for a routine rest break when the fatal chain of events started, according to safety experts familiar with the details.
Updated: 05/23/2011 06:44P
Lawmakers Ask Hillary Clinton to Explain Erik Prince's Mercenaries in the UAE
According to the lawmakers, under US law, Prince's company is exporting a defense product and therefore falls under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), requiring him to "first seek the approval of the Directorate of Defense Trade
Updated: 05/23/2011 06:44P
Search suspended for missing Smith River boater
early last Monday afternoon in the Smith River. The woman's husband was able to catch himself on a rock and then swim to shore. The accident happened approximately 7 miles downstream from where the couple had launched their boat at Camp Baker.
Updated: 05/23/2011 06:43P
Deadline set for NFL to respond to antitrust lawsuit
(Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press) A federal magistrate has rejected the NFL's request for more time to file a response in the pending antitrust lawsuit filed by its locked-out players. US Magistrate Judge Jeanne Graham ruled Monday that the NFL must
Updated: 05/23/2011 06:43P
Widow wins case to use dead husband's sperm
An Australian woman has won the right to have a baby with her dead husband, using sperm acquired after he died in a workplace accident. Mark Edwards, 39, died just one day before he and his wife, Jocelyn, 40, were about to sign consent forms to start
Updated: 05/23/2011 06:43P
Supreme Court: California must reduce prison population
"The violations have persisted for years," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority. "They remain uncorrected." The court agreed that a prisoner-release plan devised by a three-judge panel is necessary to alleviate the overcrowding.
Updated: 05/23/2011 06:43P
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