Archive for December 4th, 2007
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Two New Lothrop women remain in critical condition today at Mclaren Regional Medical Center, after their vehicle was struck by a pickup truck about 1 p.m. Thursday at the corner of Duffield and Dodge roads.
Police said the two women were headed northbound on Duffield Road, when they ran the stop sign and were struck by a pickup truck travelling eastbound on Dodge Road.
Police said the woman driving the car is 62 but the age of the other woman was unknown.
The pickup truck driver, a Montrose Township man, 38, suffered minor injuries and was not hospitalized.
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
A mentally ill man who was allegedly scammed out of a $30,000 pickup by a former Huling Brothers Auto Center employee testified Wednesday he knew what he was doing when he signed over the truck, but believed he would eventually get it back.
After being admitted to a psychiatric ward, the man signed over the truck he had recently bought from Huling Brothers to salesman Paul Rimbey in a contract that gave ownership of the truck to Rimbey if the man couldn’t repay about $1,200 in impound fees.
In testimony that often wandered off the subject, the man said he knew he might lose the truck if he couldn’t pay the impound costs and fees within 30 days.
Prosecutors allege Rimbey scammed the man out of the pickup, taking advantage of his mental state.
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
A UPS truck stolen at gunpoint Tuesday morning in Cleveland has been recovered and police say four suspects have been taken into custody.
Police say the driver of the UPS truck was making a delivery at an apartment complex on East 101st Street shortly when he was held up at gunpoint.
The truck was recovered around 1 p.m. behind an abandoned apartment complex at 10104 Folk Avenue. An estimated 75 to 100 packages had been ripped open and their contents strewn across the area. The four suspects including two juveniles and two adults were arrested near-by. Police say two of the suspects lived in the area. Charges are pending.
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
The pull-back we are seeing in gold and silver is nothing more than some high-volume backing and filling, within the major uptrend. The annual Christmas rally which started in August has a lot of life in it yet.
The sub-prime mortgage debacle is nowhere near solved, and we can count on the central banks to do what they do with every problem they run into: print more money.
Nova-Gold just made headlines with news about a problem that most miners are all too aware off: It’s costing more and more dollars to build a mine. The majority of exploration companies even if they find gold, never build a mine! It either costs too much, or it is located in an area that is too remote, or the area is no longer safe. The number of problems are endless. I’m confident that Nova-Gold will find a way, in view of the fact that the deposit at Galore Creek is large enough to pursue. Other companies, with smaller deposits are going to have a hard time bringing their gold to the surface. There have been no large gold finds for a number of years, and the increase in the amount of gold being produced is getting smaller.
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
A terrorist group composed of 6 elements has tracked yesterday at 11 am the way of Army barrack of bread-supplier in Beni Kssila area, Bejaia province, reliable sources told El Khabar, adding that the terrorists have beaten the supplier and burned his Iveco truck.
This terrorist act has frightened dwellers and pushed several drivers to avoid using the road linking Beni Kssala to national high way n°24, preferring to take instead rural road n °14 linking to Adekkar.
The frightened dwellers mentioned that terrorist groups activating in that area which is close to borders between Bejaia and Tizi Ouzou, have exploded several bombs on that road during the last few nights, while no victim, either civilian or military, have been recorded.
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
A Truck driver rescued two children and a woman after a car crash that killed the children’s mother, aunt and nephew near Keetmanshoop on Saturday.
The trucker dragged the three from the wreck just before it burst into flames. He had been driving behind their bakkie, which overturned after a tyre burst. Phil Stephanus (8) and Elma Swartbooi are recovering in hospital, while Philin Stephanus (13) was discharged after receiving treatment for shock and a leg injury.
The driver and mother of the children, Warrant Officer Katrina Stephanus (38), their aunt, Molly Magdalena Matroos (34), and nephew, Maquin Matroos (8), were killed when the bakkie left the road and overturned. The accident happened in the early hours about 66 kilometres north of Keetmanshoop on the B1 road.
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
A tanker truck leaking sulfuric acid caused traffic problems along Route 73 here this morning as crews worked to contain the spill, police said.
Police said the leak was reported by a motorist who saw the truck as it exited I-295. Officers stopped the truck at the intersection of 73 and Church Road. They contacted the Burlington County Hazardous Material Response team, police said.
Route 73 was partially closed for nearly two hours as crews worked to contain and clean the leak. Police said there were no evacuations and no injuries.
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
It was only a few miles from Pete’s 881 Club in San Rafael to the gates of San Quentin, but a world away for a motorcade of sorts that rumbled its way from a convivial watering hole to a drab visitors center on a Sunday mission to give holiday toys to inmates’ children.
In the seventh annual Bike Sleigh Across the Bay, some 350 motorcyclists clad in black leather, helmets and a few Santa hats wound their way through Kentfield and Ross, causing a few jaws to drop along the way as the grizzled-looking bikers waved teddy bears at onlookers and at cars that stopped at intersections to let the motorcade pass.
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
A Chicago trucker who crashed his semi into a tour bus has been convicted of reckless homicide charges in a tollway crash that killed eight women.
McHenry Circuit Judge Sharon Prather also found Vincente Zepeda guilty of failing to inspect and maintain his vehicle. Zepeda was the only defense witness, and the judge called his testimony “evasive and at times inconsistent.”
Prosecutors say Zepeda was driving too fast and wasn’t paying attention to the road when he slammed into the bus near an Interstate 90 toll plaza.
The crash killed eight members of a Chicago-based cultural group called the International Women Associates.
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Texas DPS officials say 33 year old David Jordy Jr. and 12 year old Joseph Mallicoat were killed this morning in an accident in Zavalla. Authorities say they ran a stop sign, and entered Farm Road 147. They were struck by a logging truck traveling north on 147. DPS officials say the driver of the logging truck was not speeding, but did not have time to stop. Residents in the area say the intersection of Pine Street and Highway 147 where the accident happened is a notoriously dangerous spot. Neither of the victims was wearing a seatbelt.
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