Blog: News - Page 15

The pandemic of the past year has caused many people to work from home most of the week, which has been a blessing for those that previously had to travel multiple hours for their daily work commute. In major cities of the U.S., however, traffic has continued to be a problem since even a percentage of the commuters represents a rather large number of vehicles on the road every day....

So many car accidents leave law enforcement and first responders with a bit of a puzzle. People lose their lives, and others are so injured in the event that they cannot immediately explain what happened. This means we are left picking up clues to piece together what exactly happened and why. Take a recent tragedy in Morovia as an example. According to this report from NBC Los Angeles, all but...

Shelters and pet-adoption agencies have seen a major bump in business during the COVID-19 pandemic. People are stuck at home, working from home, studying from home, missing friends and family, and so they have sought out cats and dogs to fill the pandemic-created gaps in their social and emotional lives. Shelters across the country have enjoyed the heightened publicity, and animal lovers all over rejoice that so many pets are...

A driver from Hudson has been charged with second-degree murder after allegedly crashing and killing an animal control officer while drunk. WKHM reported on the matter. The accident happened last June in Monroe at the intersection of Rainsville Road and M-50. According to the arrest report, the driver ran a red light and crashed into an animal control vehicle for the county. A young officer in that vehicle was injured...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is investigating an incident of police brutality after a car accident. The Root reported on the matter. The incident happened in Lennox. Video from one witness to the accident was uploaded to Twitter and triggered the investigation. The video shows a man flagging down two deputies to assist after the accident, but the man ended up getting tased. A relative of the man tried...

According to Hometown Station, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will pay a $6 million settlement over an unsafe road that has killed several people.  The lawsuit stems from a 2016 crash where a college student hit an oak tree and fell into a ravine on Bouquet Canyon Road. She was trying to negotiate a curve and lost control, flying to the outside and striking the tree. Just five...

A news report posted by KAMR/KCIT says that a woman from Moorpark, California, has died after a semi-truck accident.  The woman was driving on I-40 in Carson County, Texas. Around 12:30 AM, she crashed into a disabled Volvo semi-truck that was partially in the eastbound lane. The Texas Department of Public Safety says that the woman crashed into the back end of the trailer. The woman was killed at the...

A suspected DUI driver has been arrested after a 12-year-old bicyclist was killed in Costa Mesa over the weekend. The Orange County Register reports that on Sunday, December 6th at approximately 6:00 p.m.,  Richard Levalle, 59, was driving his pickup truck eastbound on Arlington when he blew through a stop sign at the intersection of  Arlington and Junipero Drive and struck 12-year-old Noel Bascon.   Bascon had been out with his...

A man in the Boyle Heights area has been hospitalized and is in critical condition after a hit-and run-motorist struck and dragged both him and his scooter. My News LA reports that the man was crossing Mott Street at approximately 10:35 a.m. on Friday, December 5th.  While partially through Mott Street and Whittier Boulevard's intersection, a driver in an SUV hit him. Officer Drake Madison with the Los Angeles Police...

A federal grand jury has indicted the captain of a dive boat of 34 counts of seaman's manslaughter.  The federal indictment comes after the dive boat,  Conception, caught fire off the coast of Santa Cruz and cost the lives of  33 passengers and one crew member. The Paso Robles Daily News reports that the indictment of 67-year-old Jerry Nehl Boylan alleges that as captain, he was "responsible for the safety...