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Manslaughter charge for dump truck driver in I-610 crash
AP Reporting One woman died and more than a dozen people were injured after a multi-vehicle accident shut down part of the Interstate 610 eastbound in New Orleans. According to investigators, a 30-year-old Slidell man driving a dump truck lost control
Updated: 04/13/2011 11:00A
Mom drove 3 kids into NY river, 10-year-old tried to stop it
Charges were dismissed Tuesday One woman died and more than a dozen people were injured after a multi-vehicle accident shut down part of the I-610 in New Orleans for hours. Police say the driver of a dump truck was speeding when he lost control and
Updated: 04/13/2011 11:00A
Voiculescu verdict should be a precedent
In March, the country's highest court upheld the verdict issued by Bucharest's Court of Appeal in February 2010. This verdict, historians say, can be a precedent in disclosing other high-ranking Romanian dignitaries. Voiculescu, founder of the rightist
Updated: 04/13/2011 11:00A
No use crying over spilled milk
As a result of the crash, Internet banking, phone banking and ATM transactions and all on-site deposit- and-withdrawal services were suspended until Wednesday morning. Fortunately, some services were partially revived on Wednesday afternoon but
Updated: 04/13/2011 11:00A
BiH seeks extradition of Bozidar Vucurevic from Serbia
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) -- The state prosecutor's office asked the Justice Ministry on Tuesday (April 12th) to request the extradition of Bozidar Vucurevic, the wartime mayor of the Bosnian town of Trebinje. Serbian police arrested him
Updated: 04/13/2011 11:00A
Croatia charges two Serbs with war crimes
The office has issued an international arrest warrant for Aleksandar Vasiljevic and Miroslav Zivanovic, as they are Serbian citizens and are not within reach of the Croatian justice. Prosecutors say the two are responsible for torture and inhumane
Updated: 04/13/2011 11:00A
MEP says Bulgaria, Romania technically ready to join Schengen
The document is to be submitted to the EP's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs on May 2nd and will be voted on during a session that opens June 6th. The EP offers an opinion but the decision is in the hands of the Council of the EU.
Updated: 04/13/2011 11:00A
Malfunction halts aged reactor
The accident accelerated calls to permanently shut down the 33-year-old Gori-1 reactor, which was supposed to be mothballed in 2007 but was given a 10-year extension, and is expected to affect upcoming decisions on whether to extend the lives of other
Updated: 04/13/2011 11:00A
One dead, two injured after US 460 accident in Forest
One man died and two people were injured this morning after a single-vehicle accident on US 460 in Bedford County. Just before 8 am, a pickup truck drifted off the right side of US 460 East near St. John Baptist Church in Forest,
Updated: 04/13/2011 11:00A
Two Cents: Nuclear Energy
When the Three-Mile Island accident occurred in 1979, it was only a few weeks after a Hollywood movie, “The China Syndrome”, had become a hit. As a result, Hollywood played an unintended, but significant, role in establishing the general public
Updated: 04/13/2011 11:00A
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