Jan 11
Family of Train Victim Faces Bystander’s Suit
By JEFF D. GORMAN
(CN) – A woman who was hit by the flying body of a Chicago man after a train accident can sue the dead man’s family, an Illinois appeals court ruled.On a rainy Saturday morning in 2008, Hiroyuki Joho was using a crosswalk over the train tracks to get from one platform to the other at the Edgebrook Metra station, on the corner of Lehigh and Devon Avenues in Chicago. The 18-year-old was carrying an umbrella and computer bag as a bright blue train bore down on him at 73 mph, sounding its horn and flashing its lights.Witnesses were unsure of whether Joho realized the train was coming, but he was smiling at commuters on the opposite platform when the train hit him.The train sent Joho’s 100 feet up, hitting the backside of a commuter on the platform, 58-year-old Gayane Zokhrabov.
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Jan 09
A German tourist has admitted causing a head-on collision which killed his partner and a Dunedin man on the West Coast.
Mathias Mandlmeier, 45, appeared at the Christchurch District Court at the Nga Hau e Wha marae today where he pleaded guilty to charges of careless driving causing the death of two people and causing injury to another.
He has been ordered to pay $10,000 for the harm he caused. He was also disqualified from driving for a year but is due to leave the country within days.
The accident happened on December 28 on State Highway 6, near Lake Moeraki in South Westland.
David Henry Morris, 82, died at the scene, and his son Myles David Morris, who was driving the car, was taken to Dunedin Hospital with abdominal injuries.
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Jan 08
Examiner Archives
Montgomery County firefighters slow to respond to fires, data shows (11/19/11)
MontCo councilman targets firefighters’ ‘Fill the Boot’ campaign (9/8/11)
Feud between MontCo firefighters, officials leads to fight over roadside donations (5/8/11)
Montgomery County’s firefighter union wants to reopen negotiations on its current contract after learning that the county will have an estimated $79 million in unanticipated revenue this fiscal year.
The county’s firefighters have had no cost of living increases
in three years and no service increases in two, and last year’s furloughs cost them an average 3 percent of their salaries, said Montgomery County Career Fire Fighters Association President John Sparks.
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Jan 02
PHOENIX – An 11-year-old girl who was attacked while walking to school with her 8-year-old brother was able to fight him off and escape. Now, she’s talking to FOX 10 about her traumatic experience in efforts to keep other kids safe.
She’s frightened and shaken up after this morning but she and her 8-year-old brother are speaking out after Tuesday morning’s attack near Griffith Elementary in Phoenix.
“I was running as fast as I can to get home because it was the closest,” says the victim.
Her shy smile hides the fear she has been feeling all day. The 11-
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Dec 31
DES MOINES, Iowa — In many ways distinctly different, Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney took near opposite paths to twin victories in Iowa’s presidential caucuses.
The little-known, cash-strapped Santorum broke through as the leading conservative contender by cutting a painstaking path through every Iowa county. Romney, the GOP’s deep-pocketed national front-runner, wanted to avoid being seen as underperforming and captured the state’s more urban areas with little effort.
Both of their strategies went almost perfectly according to plan.
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