Authorities reported that a van carrying athletes from California Baptist University in Riverside was involved in a fiery collision near Bishop on Monday night.  At least six people were killed and 12 others injured in the accident.
The van was one of three university vehicles heading northbound on U.S. Highway 395 about five miles south of Bishop when a Ford SUV traveling in the opposite direction lost control shortly after 8 p.m. Officer Dennis Cleland of the California Highway Patrol state the SUV smashed into one of the vans and immediately …

A school bus accident in Eastern Kansas left nine people injured.  The bus was traveling from a church camp on their way back to Missouri.  According to reports the accident occurred along Interstate 35 near Wellsville at around 10 a.m.
Thirty-four people, including the driver, four teenage counselors and 20 children were on the bus at the time. Reports state the bus was returning from a Baptist church camp in Franklin County.  Reasons are still unknown why the bus turned over.
Eight children were rushed to area hospitals by ambulance for treatment …

The chairman of the Irvine Co. and the 45th richest man in the world according to Forbes, Donald Bren, recently had a $1.4 million tax refund check stolen from him in an identity theft case the Secret Service is investigating.
According to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in May a man who looks nothing like Bren set up bank accounts in Bren’s name earlier this year, deposited Bren’s refund check into one, and then transferred most of the money out.
The complaint did not say how the man obtained …

According to a Connecticut official nine people have died and two were wounded in a shooting at a beer distribution warehouse in Connecticut.
Manchester Police Lt. Joe San Antonio stated the gunman is identified by police as Omar S. Thornton, whose body was found inside the warehouse where the shooting took place.
Police say the two wounded individuals were transported the Hartford Hospital are expected to survive.
Reports are stating that the shooting may have been racially motivated, and that Thornton reportedly told his girlfriend that he had been discriminated against, and that a …

Motorola is facing a four-count lawsuit filed by a group of former employees who claim the toxic substances used to manufacture Motorola products caused serious birth defects in their children. The lawsuit was filed in the Cook County Circuit Court by seventy-one plaintiffs who claim negligence, abnormally dangerous and ultrahazardous activity, willful and wanton conduct and loss of consortium against Motorola according to the Chicago Sun Times.
According to the plaintiffs at least 30 children born to workers who were employed by Motorola since the 1960s have birth defects.  These defects …

A Sonoma-Marin Fair employee had his leg severed on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 according to a Mercury News Report.  The accident occurred when the unidentified employee was working.  He was standing on the tracks of a roller coaster when he was struck and he leg was severed on impact.  As of Thursday the victim was listed in stable condition according to reports.
Cal/OSHA authorities and fair officials are now trying to determine how or why the injurious workplace accident occurred.
According to reports the worker is an East Bay resident in his …

According to authorities a fisherman died after another boat rear-ended his boat Sunday shortly after midnight, throwing him into the Cal-Sag Channel in the south suburbs.
Coast Guard Petty Officer Nathaniel Parks stated that the accident occurred when the second boat swerved to avoid a log and hit the fishing boat, which was moving.  The man in the fishing boat was thrown into the water and could not swim.  He was not wearing a life jacket.
According to state officials at least one boat was conducting maintenance tests at the time of …

The intern for Governor Sonny Perdue was killed in a car accident this weekend in Atlanta when a woman with a .229 blood-alcohol level slammed into his car.  The intern was a 2008 University of Georgia graduate.
The victim was 24-year-old Jordan Griner.  He was the designated driver early Saturday when he was hit by a car driven by 26-year-old Christa Scott.  Scott ran a red light and hit the driver’s door of Griner’s car, according to reports.  Scott is being held in the Fulton County jail on charges of first-degree …

23 people were injured on Thursday, June 17, 2010 in a three-vehicle collision in Rosemead.  Of the 23, two were critically injured.  The accident occurred at 10 a.m. in the 3000 block of North San Gabriel Boulevard.
According to officials a silver Honda Civic was headed southbound on San Gabriel Boulevard near Garvey avenue, when it crashed into the rear end of a white Nissan Sentra.  The Nissan Sentra was pushed into oncoming traffic where it collided head-on with a tour bus.
Both the driver of the tour bus and the driver …

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reported that a father and his 6-year-old daughter were injured on Monday when their parasail malfunctioned and bounced them across the water and into a sea wall.
Both father and daughter only suffered minor injuries.  ”They suffered only bumps and bruises.  Their injuries could have been much worse,” said FWC spokesman Jorge Pino.
The two went up in the parasail a little before 5 p.m. into the waters east of Miami’s Bayside Marketplace and were part of a family of six visiting from Chicago.   …