"Judge sets $3.5m bail in Nev. crash" Associated Press, April 02, 2013
LAS VEGAS — A rural Nevada judge set bail Monday at $3.5 million for a California teenager jailed in Las Vegas on felony drunk-driving charges in a weekend crash that killed five family members on an interstate northeast of Las Vegas.
Jean Ervin Soriano, 18, could face eight to 20 years in years in prison if convicted....
An arrest report made public Monday said he told the arresting trooper he had ‘‘too many’’ beers before the crash. Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Loy Hixson said several beer bottles were found in the 1999 Dodge Durango he admitted driving. Rutledge said results of a blood-alcohol test on Soriano were pending....
Five people killed....
And he is only facing 8-to-20?
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Related: Nevada authorities release names of family killed in crash
"I-77 reopens in Va. after 95-car crash" Associated Press, April 02, 2013
GALAX, Va. — Interstate 77 near the Virginia-North Carolina border reopened early Monday after a series of chain-reaction wrecks involving nearly 100 vehicles along a mountainous, foggy stretch of the highway, killing three people and injured 25 others....
‘‘This mountain is notorious for fog banks. They have advance signs warning people. But the problem is, people are seeing well and suddenly they’re in a fog bank,’’ said Glen Sage of the American Red Cross office in the town of Galax.
Since 1997, there have been at least six such pileups on the mountain but Sunday’s crash was the most deadly, according to The Roanoke Times....
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