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Attorney: Teen charged in 90 mph crash to plead insanity
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The attorney for a Louisiana teenager who told authorities God instructed him to end his life, so he crashed his car into another driver says his client intends to plead not guilty by reason of insanity. The Advocate reports 18-year-old Jack Jordan was indicted this month on a...
More than 50 vehicles pile up in crash on Denver road
DENVER (AP) — Police say more than 50 vehicles were involved in a weather-related crash in west Denver. Injuries were reported in the pileup about 7:30 p.m. Thursday night, but Denver police say none are considered life-threatening. The accident happened along eastbound 6th Avenue near southbound I-25....
Trucker in Colorado pileup that killed 4 pleads not guilty
GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — A truck driver accused of causing a fiery pileup that killed four people and seriously injured several others on a Colorado interstate pleaded not guilty Thursday to vehicular homicide and other charges. Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos, 24, of Houston, appeared in court in Jefferson...
2 school buses crash, sending about 2 dozen to the hospital
CLEVELAND, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say one school bus from Georgia rear-ended another during their field trip to Tennessee, sending more than two dozen people to hospitals. News outlets report 19 students and four adults were taken for evaluation to a Cleveland, Tennessee, hospital after the Thursday...
Police: Students fine after head-on crash of school bus, SUV
MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — Police say a 16-year-old boy driving an SUV collided head-on with a school bus carrying two middle school students in an Atlanta suburb. Marietta police say the bus driver was taken to a hospital and is expected to survive. They say no one else was seriously injured in the Thursday...
2 Amish boys killed by corn-laden truck on Indiana farm
NAPPANEE, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say two Amish brothers were killed when they were run over by a tractor-trailer hauling corn on a farm in northern Indiana. Kosciusko (kahs-ee-AHS'-koh) County Coroner Tony Ciriello says 5-year-old Jaylin Hochstetler and 3-year-old Kenton Hochstetler died Tuesday afternoon...
Safety agency says distracted driver caused fatal Uber crash
The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday condemned the lack of state and federal regulation for testing autonomous vehicles before finding that a distracted human safety driver was the main cause of a fatal 2018 Arizona crash involving an Uber vehicle. The board criticized the National Highway Traffic...
Lawyer for ex-astronaut charged in fatal crash blames Ambien
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A former space shuttle commander charged in the traffic deaths of two girls in Alabama was having an abnormal reaction to sleep medication at the time of the crash, his lawyer said. Jim Sturdivant, an attorney for retired astronaut James Halsell Jr., told WAAY-TV in a Monday report...
3 killed in Oregon crash
DAYTON, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a girl and two adults were killed in a head-on collision on Highway 221. Oregon State Police Troopers were called out to the roadway at milepost 10.5, south of Dayton, just before noon Monday. KOIN reports that according to their preliminary investigation, 33-year-old...
‘Wall of water’: Lawsuits detail deadly Navy collision
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A lawsuit filed Monday details a desperate scramble for safety as water rushed in when a container ship collided with a U.S. Navy destroyer off Japan’s coast two years ago, killing seven sailors. The lawsuit filed against Tokyo-based NYK Line by survivors of the collision and...
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