"San Diego couple in 80s killed by their pickup" Associated Press May 20, 2014
SAN DIEGO — A married couple in their 80s were killed when the man backed a pickup truck over his wife, then was hit by the truck himself as he scrambled to help her, authorities said.
The San Diego County medical examiner said Setsuko Yad, 80, was hit by her 87-year-old husband as he was trying to park their pickup truck on Sunday night.
Paramedics declared the woman dead at the scene.
The man, whose name has not been released, was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
In Arizona, authorities reported a string of fatal highway accidents involving wrong-way drivers.
The latest occurred early Sunday when a pickup truck and a passenger vehicle collided in Gilbert. Two people were killed and two others were seriously injured, authorities said. The driver and passenger in the car going the correct direction died.
On Friday, three people from Indonesia died after their minivan was struck by a wrong-way driver’s car on Interstate 17 in Phoenix.
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"A 16-year-old Southern California girl was killed while sleeping in her bed after an alleged drunken driver crashed his sport utility vehicle into her home early Sunday, authorities said."
"Spilled cargo causes bus crash that kills 4" Associated Press May 22, 2014
BLYTHE, Calif. — A tractor-trailer spilled a load of steel pipes onto a highway, triggering a bus crash Wednesday that killed four people and seriously injured at least seven others on the main road linking Southern California and Arizona, authorities said.
The crash occurred around 2:15 a.m. on Interstate 10, just west of Blythe near the Arizona border, where the eastbound truck jackknifed onto the median and spilled its cargo into all lanes in both directions, according to the California Department of Transportation.
The westbound bus either swerved to avoid the pipes or struck them and overturned, sliding across the shoulder and 50 feet down a slight embankment, said Terri Kasinga of the transportation department. The bus, with 32 people aboard, was traveling overnight on an 800-mile route from El Paso to Los Angeles....
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"Famous San Francisco street to see summer closing" Associated Press May 21, 2014
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco transit leaders will temporarily close a stretch of Lombard Street, a tourist spot known as the ‘‘crookedest street in the world.’’
On Tuesday, the city’s Municipal Transportation Agency unanimously approved a pilot closure to vehicles on the oft-photographed, well-traveled curvy and winding thoroughfare for four consecutive weekends starting in late June and including the Fourth of July weekend during the busy summer tourist season. The vehicle closure does not apply to residents who live in the area.
About an average of 2,000 vehicles travel on the street each weekend day during that period, the city said.
The world-famous hilly street in San Francisco’s Russian Hill neighborhood has been featured on television, in movies, and even in video games, and is known for its one-block stretch of winding brick road that consists of eight hairpin turns.
Tourists enjoy driving down the crooked street with flower gardens at every corner like it is an amusement park ride. It is perhaps the most popular tourist destination in San Francisco besides the iconic Golden Gate Bridge, the cable cars, and Fisherman’s Wharf.
The temporary closing idea came at the request of Supervisor Mark Farrell following a stream of complaints by some residents, who want to curb the street’s chronic gridlock mostly due to curious tourists.
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"US investigates crash of planes over San Francisco Bay" Associated Press April 29, 2014
RICHMOND, Calif. — A federal transportation safety official arrived Monday in Northern California to investigate a collision between two planes that sent one crashing into San Francisco Bay.
The investigator will interview the pilot of a plane that made it back to land and review the pilots’ backgrounds, National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Terry Williams said.
The collision occurred Sunday near the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge and involved a single-engine Cessna 210 and a single-engine Hawker Sea Fury TMK 20.
Ian Gregor, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said the Cessna went into the bay, and the Sea Fury’s pilot landed at Eagle’s Nest Airport in the small city of Ione in Amador County.
Authorities said the Sea Fury’s occupants — a husband and wife —were uninjured. It was unclear how many people were in the Cessna.
Coast Guard helicopters and vessels were conducting search patterns in the bay Monday morning, Lieutenant Joshua Dykman of the US Coast Guard said.
Search teams found no signs of the downed pilot after scouring San Pablo Bay through the night.
The two planes had departed from Eagle’s Nest Airport to participate in the Pacific Coast Dream Machines, an annual festival at Half Moon Bay Airport that features a variety of planes, motorcycles, and cars.
Both planes left Half Moon Bay, about 20 miles south of San Francisco, and were on their return flight to Ione.
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"Nintendo is apologizing and pledging to be more inclusive after being criticized for not recognizing same-sex relationships in English editions of a life-simulator video game. But the publisher said it was too late to change the game. Nintendo came under fire this past week after refusing to add same-sex relationship options to ‘‘Tomodachi Life.’’ (AP)."
"Scott Dekraai, 44, a former tugboat operator who was in a custody fight with his ex-wife, pleaded guilty Friday to killing her and seven others in a shooting rampage at a California hair salon in 2011."
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And the most bizarre story of all:
""Police: Woman found 10 years after kidnapping" Associated Press May 22, 2014
SANTA ANA, Calif. — A woman who was 15 when she disappeared from her California home a decade ago has contacted police and told them she was kidnapped by a man who sexually assaulted her, forced her into marriage, and fathered a child with her, authorities said Wednesday.
Police have arrested Isidro Garcia, 41, of Bell Gardens, on suspicion of kidnapping for rape, lewd acts with a minor, and false imprisonment, according to a statement from the Santa Ana Police Department.
In 2004, when the victim was 15 and had recently arrived in the United States without legal documentation, Garcia was dating her mother and lived with the family, authorities said. The mother suspected he was sexually abusing her daughter, police said.
In August 2004, Garcia assaulted the mother, drugged the girl, and then fled with her, the statement said.
Garcia provided the girl with false identification and used physical and emotional abuse to prevent her from fleeing, police said. Garcia repeatedly told the victim that her family had stopped searching for her and that they would be deported if she tried to leave, the statement said.
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"Mother told woman to report her kidnapping" by GILLIAN FLACCUS and TAMI ABDOLLAH | Associated Press May 23, 2014
SANTA ANA, Calif. — A woman who disappeared a decade ago as a 15-year-old reunited recently with her mother, who persuaded her to go to authorities to report that she had been kidnapped and raped by a man who is now her husband and father of her daughter.
Orange County prosecutors on Thursday filed five felony charges against the alleged abductor, Isidro Garcia, including rape and kidnapping to commit a sexual offense. He did not enter a plea, and his arraignment was continued until June 9. He is being held on $1 million bail.
Garcia’s attorney said her assertions of physical and sexual abuse are lies made up because the couple is breaking up.
Police described an ordeal during which the now 25-year-old woman — manipulated through mental, physical, and sexual abuse — was moved at least four times and given multiple fake identities to hide her from family and authorities.
The woman, who police did not identify by name, said she often thought about escaping but stayed out of fear, even though in recent years she was not physically held captive. She told police that Garcia said her mother was not looking for her and that if she contacted authorities, her family would be deported.
Then, in April, the woman got in touch with her mother after finding her sister on Facebook to wish her a happy birthday, Santa Ana Police Corporal Anthony Bertagna said.
The mother showed the daughter news articles written at the time of her 2004 disappearance to prove that she had gone to the police and filed a missing persons report, according to Bertagna.
‘‘The mother was able to show her that she was, in fact, looking for her,’’ Bertagna said.
The woman said in a television interview that she was overjoyed to be reunited with her family. ‘‘I was very afraid about everything because I was alone,’’ she told KABC-TV.
Garcia’s attorney, Charles Frisco, said outside a brief court hearing that his client denies all the allegations, never hit his wife, and would never have prevented her from leaving.
‘‘Like all married people and like all couples, people have problems, people break up and sometimes get very belligerent during the divorce process, the separation process, and say things that aren’t true,’’ he said.
Police said that the woman, whom they did not identify, had arrived in the United States from Mexico several months before her abduction and did not speak English at the time.
On Monday, she contacted police in the city of Bell Gardens to report a domestic violence incident with Garcia. During that investigation, authorities realized her connection to the 2004 case.
Garcia forced the woman to marry in 2007 and fathered a daughter, now 3, with her, Santa Ana police said.
In Bell Gardens — near Los Angeles and about 20 miles from where she originally vanished — stunned neighbors who knew the suspect as Tomas Medrano found the woman’s portrait of him hard to reconcile with the man they knew.
‘‘He treats her like a queen. He does his best to do whatever she wants,’’ next-door neighbor Maria Sanchez said Wednesday in Spanish after police announced Garcia’s arrest.
The woman told the station that her neighbors believed Garcia was a good man because he provided for her.
‘‘He worked hard for me and my daughter, and he bought everything I want. But I didn’t want that,’’ she said with her mother, sister, and daughter at her side. ‘‘I need love from my family, not things.’’
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I'm (not) shocked that the stabbing deaths of his roommates is completely omitted. He killed more with a knife than with his gun, yet you don't here calls to ban knives -- even as cops claim people have knives after blowing them away dead.
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Epidemic of mass killings needs action on many fronts
While we were eating i was told mass killings are rare.
Beyond that, when is the war-promoting on many fronts leading to mass murder and killing by overt or covert means mouthpiece going to editorialize of themselves?
Mental-health records are essential for background checks
This is what government and their agenda-pushers in media are aiming for: the ability to take away your rights based on someone else's label.
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Gun-grabbers must feel like they have struck gold this time with the six-week shooting cycle.
Seems like every six weeks or so there is a big shooting, doesn't it?
I can't remember what triggered me to link this.
