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[18 Aug 2010 | No Comment | ]
Celebrity plastic surgeon dies in car accident

Dr. Frank Ryan, 50, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon died when his Jeep Wrangler veered off Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu on Tuesday.   It appears he posted to Twitter minutes before the crash and may have been texting at the time of the accident, according to his ex-girlfriend.
The surgeon posted a picture of his dog, a border collie, at the beach on Twitter at 4:10 p.m. and 2o minutes later the accident occurred.  Ryan was driving south on PCH north of Deer Creek Road, when his car swerved and …

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[17 Aug 2010 | No Comment | ]
Lawsuit claims Farmers Insurance hasn’t paid LA wildfire claims

A lawsuit was filed Tuesday against Farmers Group Inc.  The lawsuit accuses Farmers of refusing to pay claims to policyholders whose homes were damaged by last summer’s massive Station Fire near Los Angeles.  The suit claims breach of contract and unfair business practices.  It seeks unspecified damages for more than 1,000 homeowners who reported smoke, ash and other damages from the blaze that killed two firefighters, destroyed 89 homes and scorched 250 square miles of Angeles National Forest.
Brian Kabateck, an attorney for the plaintiffs, stated that Farmers denied claims to …

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[17 Aug 2010 | No Comment | ]

A 3-year-old boy in Lehi, Utah was in critical condition on Tuesday morning after an accident in his home.
According to Lt. Darren Paul with the Lehi Police Department the boy’s mother called 911 because the boy was turning purple and having trouble breathing.  The boy and his 18-month-old sibling were playing in a room with a fold-able metal table with legs that fold underneath like scissors.  While playing with the table the children somehow knocked down the table and their mother heard the crash and responded.  She checked on them …

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[17 Aug 2010 | No Comment | ]
California 200 race leaves eight dead

An off-road racing accident in California’s Mojave Desert has left eight people dead and 12 injured.  The accident may have occurred because fans wanted to get too close to the speeding trucks.
Hundreds of stunned off-road racing fans looked on horrified Saturday night at the carnage at the California 200 in the Mojave Desert, 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles, after driver Brett M. Sloppy, 28, lost control of his truck that then catapulted into the crowd at high speed.
Sloppy was driving a modified Ford Ranger along the 50-mile track at …

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[17 Aug 2010 | No Comment | ]
Accident on SF Golden Gate Bridge causes closure

According to the California Highway Patrol the Golden Gate Bridge reopened at 9:40 a.m. Tuesday after a collision involving at least four vehicles shut down all lanes.  The collision caused quite a traffic back up into San Francisco.
CHP Sgt. Diana McDermott stated the accident occurred shortly after 9 a.m. when a big rig truck headed north rear-ended a Kia about 300 feet past the toll plaza, causing the smaller vehicle to cross over into southbound traffic.  Immediately following this a red Porsche headed south broadsided the Kia.  A fourth vehicle …