August 31, 2009 – 3:08 pm
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – Four people died in a car accident on state Route 125 and Mission Gorge Road in Santee on Friday. The victims are believed to have been CHP Officer Mark Saylor, 45, his wife Cloefe, also 45, his daughter Mahala, 13 and his brother in law Chirs Lastrella. Only the body of [...]
August 30, 2009 – 2:59 pm
SAN YSIDRO, CALIFORNIA – Several people were injured and one was killed in a car accident early Sunday morning. Nine adults were returning to the United States side of the border after a night out on the Mexican side. They had been drinking alcohol while in Mexico. They picked up their cars, which were parked [...]
August 29, 2009 – 2:55 pm
SALINAS, CALIFORNIA – 39-year-old Jake Fink was sentenced to three years in prison for a hit-and-run accident that left a teenage boy with a brain injury. Fink was also ordered to pay $45,000 to 17-year-old Jacob Tidwell, the brain injury victim. He was ordered to pay a less seriously injured boy $16,000. Fink was driving [...]
August 28, 2009 – 12:12 pm
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – More than two dozen people were injured at a meat-processing plant in South San Francisco because of an ammonia leak. Fire officials in the area said the leak was reported around 5:30 a.m. this morning at the Columbus Salame meat-processing plant. The plant uses anhydrous ammonia as a refrigerant at the [...]
August 27, 2009 – 12:02 pm
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA – A California Department of Transportation proposal to allow families to pay for signs in memory of loved ones lost in car accidents is generating controversy. While the message, memorializing those killed in traffic accidents, is not controversial, it is the signs themselves that are causing uproar among environmentalists and others. Opponents of the proposal [...]