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Man Charged in Motorcycle Crash
It happened Saturday on Upper Mountain Road between Garlow Road and Indian Hill Road. Police say Pauline Vanthiel was thrown from the bike in the crash. She was taken by Mercy Flight to Erie County Medical Center where she died from injuries to her
Updated: 04/24/2011 10:23A
Woman sent back to prison for drunken crash
Lori Kasten spent six years in prison for driving drunk and killing an 11-year-old girl in a crash in 1996. Now she is headed back to prison to serve a 10-year sentence after the probation she received for injuring two people in the same crash was
Updated: 04/24/2011 10:21A
3 cops get 120 years for kidnap-slay
BACOLOD CITY — The long wait for justice finally ended recently for the families of three kidnap-slay victims after a Manila regional trial court judge convicted three former police officers and sentenced each of them to 120 years in jail.
Updated: 04/24/2011 10:19A
3 cops get 120 years for kidnap-slay
BACOLOD CITY — The long wait for justice finally ended recently for the families of three kidnap-slay victims after a Manila regional trial court judge convicted three former police officers and sentenced each of them to 120 years in jail.
Updated: 04/24/2011 10:19A
Ombudsman throws wider fertilizer fund scam net
(now Supreme Court Associate Justice) Antonio B. Nachura, then Batanes Rep. (now Budget Secretary) Florencio B. Abad and then Bukidnon 3rd Dist. Rep. (now Senator) Juan Miguel Zubiri also did not receive a share from the fertilizer fund.
Updated: 04/24/2011 10:19A
Torture by, of all people, cops and soldiers
In June 2005, the Pasig Regional Trial Court ordered Hamja released after more than 60 witnesses produced by government prosecutors, including American citizen and former Abu Sayyaf kidnap victim Gracia Burnham, failed to identify him as a participant
Updated: 04/24/2011 10:19A
Drunken driver who killed girl in 1996 crash arrested for OWI again
A drunken driver who killed a girl in a crash in 1996, then had her probation revoked for drunken driving in 2006 after she was released from prison, has been arrested for allegedly driving drunk yet again, authorities reported.
Updated: 04/24/2011 10:19A
'Aquino on legal ground in seeking Merci ouster'
AS far as House committee on justice chair Iloilo Rep. Niel Tupas Jr. is concerned, President Aquino did not violate the Constitution by actively campaigning for the removal of Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez.
Updated: 04/24/2011 10:19A
Race held in honor of Parsippany high school graduate who died in 2009 Buffalo
By Dan Goldberg/The Star-Ledger Courtesy of Dana DiGioacchinoMadeline Loftus at a Christmas party in December, 2008, two months before she died in a plane crash. PARSIPPANY — Everyone brings up the smile, but there was more to Madeline Loftus than the
Updated: 04/24/2011 10:18A
Motor Racing: Kubica leaves hospital
left hospital nearly three months after a horrifying rally accident almost cost him his hand, Italian media reports said. The Polish driver had been confined to the Santa Corona hospital in the town of Pietra Ligure since his crash in February,
Updated: 04/24/2011 10:16A