According to authorities, Kyle Ramirez escaped from a couple’s home in Tracy, California last December by unlocking an ankle train.  He then found his way half-naked and stumbling, emaciated and bruised into a health club.  Michael Schumacher, Kelly Lau, married, and Caren Ramirez, and Anthony Waiters, were indicted by a grand jury in March on aggravated mayhem, torture, and false imprisonment of the 16...

Alyssa Squirrell, 11 of Laguna Hills, was in the ocean last July as a part of a training exercise for the junior lifeguard program in Huntington Beach when she was struck and killed by the boat driven by Marine Safety Lt. Greg Crow.  After a three month investigation into the incident, Orange County prosecutors have decided not to file criminal charges against the decorated marine safety officer. “My...

Just outside  Chicago, in southwest suburban Oak Lawn, Joan Orth was struck by a vehicle while crossing Kenton Avenue around 5:45  PM Monday evening.  The vehicle, driven by a male, was heading westbound on Kenton.  Orth was pronounced dead at 6:31 PM at Advocate Christ Medical Center, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.  Oak Lawn police Lt. Joe Stubbs said that alcohol is not believed...

In Kingston, NY, County Medical Examiner Dr. Michael Sheran was fired after apparently showing up drunk to the scene of a fatal accident on Sunday.  Ulster County Executive Michael Hein will not tolerate driving drunk, and as a county executive takes the subject extremely seriously.  The NY State Police charged Dr. Sheran with aggravated DWI. Robert Ryan, 48 of Ellenville, was walking on the paved portion...

Near Route 120 and Route 17 in East Rutherford, New Jersey, an unidentified vehicle cut off a police cruiser with lights and sirens responding to a domestic violence call.  It was just before 8:30 am Monday morning, and when the officer swerved, he lost control of the cruiser and struck a divider and another car.  Authorities said Route 120/Paterson Plank Road and the streets that connect to Route 120 were...

Sixteen year old Victoria Haight and fifteen year old John Mueller both had their legs broken in an All-Terrain Vehicle accident that occurred Sunday afternoon in Nebraska.  The ATV crossed the railroad tracks on Road 36, but were unable to negotiate the sharp curve, left the roadway, and went into a clump of trees in the ditch.  Both teens were transported by rescue squad to Syracuse, and later transferred...

Over the weekend, three men were killed in a single vehicle accident in New Kent County.  Lon Hogge Jr was driving his car with passengers Clarence Jackson III, and Paul Mula Saturday night when Hogge lost control of the vehicle, leaving the roadway and striking a culvert and some trees.  According to authorities, Hogge and Mula were not wearing seatbelts.  The accident occurred around 11 PM that night. ...

In Henry County, south of Mount Pleasant Monday morning, a school bus’s wheels dropped off the road and the bus tipped into a ditch.  There were seven students on the bus with the driver at the time, around 7:25 am, Monday morning.  The bus was effectively “sucked into the ditch” according to Jessica Lown, with the Iowa Department of Public Safety.  There were no injuries, and most of the students were...

A 79-year old man was repairing a drainage tile Saturday afternoon when the trench he had dug collapsed, burying him under the dirt.  Emergency crews were called around 8:40 pm when the man’s wife could not reach him, and had her neighbor call 911.  When emergency crews arrived, they found the back hoe still running, and the 7 feet deep trench had collapsed.  The man’s name has not been released, pending...

A dispatcher with Washington County emergency services said Friday that two people were sent to  Washington County Hospital following a two car head on collision, around 7:30 Thursday evening.  Because they were close to the scene, Hagerstown Police responded to the accident although it was past the city line.  One person was trapped and had to be extricated from the vehicle.  The officers who investigated...