A southwest Missouri firefighter has died when the vehicle he was a passenger in struck a tree. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports the 19-year-old boy was killed when a driver of a pickup truck lost control and ran off a road, struck a tree and overturned. The single-vehiclecrash happened Friday evening in Christian…
There have been several deaths this year in Chicago due tobicycle accidents. Twelve people have been killed in the larger Cook County area due to bicycle accidents, and the number is expected to grow. The names of those killed in the Cook County area have been released. According to reports, their ages range from…
Five Vermont high school juniors were killed in a tragic wrong-waycrash and the suspect who caused the crash has been taken into custody. Police say the suspect in custody has already faced domestic assault charges. The 36-year-old Williston man was arrested by police in relation to the crash on Saturday. State police say the…
TheSamsung’s Galaxy Note 7 is becoming increasingly unwelcome on planes worldwide and has been labeled a dangerous product. An emergency order was released by the Transportation and Federal Aviation Administration banning Galaxy Note 7 owners from bringing their phones on planes or in luggage. International airlines are also prohibiting Note 7 travelers from bringing…
New data from federal regulators show the number of teenagers involved in deadlycar crashes is rising. The report shows for the first time in ten years, a 10-percent spike in teenage driving deaths occurred last year. Now officials say teens are more than one-and-a-half times more likely to be involved in a deadly crash…
The family of a 21-year-old California woman who was struck and killed by a suspecteddrunk driver heard his not-guilty plea to charges in court this week. The accused has been charged with several counts including Gross Vehicular Manslaughter, DUI Causing great bodily injury, as well as two counts of Felony Child Endangerment. According to…
Chicago has had its seventh victim killed in abicycle accident this year. Authorities say a Chicago Fire Department lieutenant has become the seventh person to die in a bicycle accident on September 20. According to a fire department spokesman, the 56-year-old man was struck by a vehicle as he was biking home from his…
A Chicago man clung to the roof of a moving vehicle that was attempting to flee atraffic accident in Riverside on Tuesday. Witnesses say it looked like a scene straight out of an action movie. According to police, a southbound vehicle struck another vehicle driven by a 44-year-old man on the 3400 block of…
A dangerous productrecall has been issued for almost 2.8 million units of craft paints due to the risk of exposure to harmful bacteria. The company, Sargent Art, issued the recall on October 4, 2016, for 13 types of arts and crafts tempera and finger paints. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the…
An Illinois woman was killed in a horrific hit-and-runtractor-trailer crash in northwest Indiana. According to the police report, at 10:45 a.m, a 30-year-old woman pulled her 2014 Chevrolet Suburban over on the shoulder of southbound I-65 near the Fair Oaks exit in Jasper County. Family members inside the car said she was checking a…