Avoiding DUI Checkpoint Causes Woman To Collide With Paramedics

A moron trys to evade the police by absconding from a DUI checkpoint, causes an accident and gets arrested for DUI.  People need to grow a brain cell and simply NOT drink and drive.  It is absurd!"November 9, 2008 (by Otto Smyth) According to reports by criminal...

Post-Soviet 'frozen conflicts' heat up as big-power interests collide

"Tensions are growing as NATO and a resurgent Russia divide over future of breakaway statelets. By Fred Weir | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor from the June 25, 2008 editionOstIngur, AbkhazGeorgia border - Tensions are again spiking...

BREAKING: 4 Dead, 7 Hurt After Tractor Trailer, van Collide South of Pittsburgh

A tractor-trailer collided with a van carrying residents of a mental health facility, killing four people and hurting seven. The accident occurred in Somerset Township, when at around 10 am witnesses saw the van stop at an intersection and then pull right in front of the...

Korean, Chinese vessels collide, 6 missing

"SEOUL, April 7 (UPI) -- The Korean coast guard Monday reported six Chinese crewmen missing in a collision between a Chinese fishing boat and a South Korean freighter.The fishing boat, Lujiao Yu, capsized about 100 miles south of the South Korean island of Jeju, the South...

Air Force pilot dies, another survives after F15Cs collide

"An Air Force fighter pilot died Wednesday after two F-15C jets collided during a training exercise over the Gulf of Mexico, according to Air Force officials. The planes were from the 33rd Fighter Wing, a...

When 'Friends' and Lives Collide on Social Networks

Online, not all 'friends' are created equal.In fact, the rapidly evolving concepts of 'friendship' and privacy have been radically transformed by the use of social networks.But Facebook and Myspace are finally...

Asteroid: MARS ATTACK

It will be interesting to view this as a televised asteroid attack if scientists are proven correct in their assertion that an asteroid impact on Mars would be on a scale of 15 megaton nuclear bomb. ...

When Green Thinking And Consumerism Collide :: MAXINE

"Ever ask yourself, “When is enough, enough?" In February 2009, our television technical standards are due to changeover to High Definition broadcast transmission standards. The impacts of this changeover will...

7 Sisters' Star: may be giving birth to planets

To find life on other planets, would certainly put to rest the notions of others who presume we are alone."Rocky planets the size of Earth or Mars may be forming around a sun-like star in the Pleiades star...

Shifting Sands: Iraq Troop Drawdown Imminent

    NowPublic contributor phrolen is a veteran of Operation IraqiFreedom and Joint Taskforce Katrina. His commentary is based on actualexperience.     Just yesterday, Shifting...

Paul Boyd + Mental Illness + Police = Tragedy

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public Contributor Chain wielding Paul Boyd, mentally ill during his altercation with Vancouver Police is described by friends and family as a gentle giant, who at times had sprints...

No injuries as trains collide in fiery crash in northern B.C.

CN Rail is the cause of one accident after another, the public needs to be aware there is something seriously wrong here and demand answers.  Susan Jones photo"No injuries as trains collide in fiery crash...

Pilot killed in collision at Wisconsin air show

Another air show tragedy, and the second midair collision within 24 hours."Two single-engine war planes at an experimental air show collided while landing Friday, killing one of the pilots and injuring the other,...

Ferries Collide in Boston

In foggy Boston harbor, two ferries smashed into each other; no reports yet of serious injuries. One of the ferries had 151 people on board; the other, just four."The collision was near South Boston. Emergency...

Fire Engine And Ladder Truck Collide

" May 19, 2007 Connecticut - Shortly after 10:30 am while responding to a call for a kitchen fire a 61 Eastern Avenue in Waterbury Engine 8 and Ladder 1 of the Waterbury Fire Department collided at the intersection or Route 73 and East Aurora Street. Eight firefighters were...

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