A Belleville lawyer is suing the driver who he claims attempted to perform a u-turn in front of him. Richard W. Schaefer filed a lawsuit Oct. 29 in St. Clair County Circuit Court against Calvin C. Humphries. Schaefer claims he was driving a 1995 Dodge Grand Caravan west in the 8600 block of West Main Street in Belleville on Nov. 2, 2007, when Humphries, who had illegally stopped his 1999 Cadillac...
I received this in an email today from an old friend, Bill S., whose son Adam just recently returned from his (second? Third') tour of duty in Iraq. I can claim nothing about the content. It looks like fiction. At best, it's apocryphal; unsubstantiated and the author is unknown. But it reads good, and I admit I admire the emotional content. So I include the entire text of the email, including the few...
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Another day, another story about Senate Majority Pedro Espada's questionable dealings! Today, the Post reports that Espada has "turned his Bronx nonprofit health center into his own 'cash for clunkers' program when it bought an old, gas-guzzling junker from his eldest son." The charity that runs the Soundview Health Clinics "picked up a 2001 Ford Expedition" with over 175K miles...
Nope, not talking about Teddy Kennedy this time, but cars that were sacrificed to the government gods through the Cash for Clunkers program (from John Stossel ): I enjoyed this from Brad Smith at Division of Labour : Thanks to the glories of YouTube, we can watch as the government mandates the destruction of perfectly good automobiles to "help the economy." Here is a very nice 1990s Dodge...
Running through the Burger King parking lot at 2:30 a.m. on May 29, Shala Parker managed to catch the license plate of the green Cadillac DeVille as it zoomed onto Sixth Avenue and took a hard left onto Lincoln. To remember it, she screamed "727RUG! 727RUG!" as she ran back to where her mom, Lili...
From Brad Smith at Division of Labour : Thanks to the glories of YouTube, we can watch as the government mandates the destruction of perfectly good automobiles to "help the economy." Here is a very nice 1990s Dodge Dakota 4X4 being destroyed . It is a much better vehicle than my pick up truck. This is a Corvette that looks to be in pretty good condition. Black, pretty sharp car. I'm sure...
Thanks to the glories of YouTube, we can watch as the government mandates the destruction of perfectly good automobiles to "help the economy." Here is a very nice 1990s Dodge Dakota 4X4 being destroyed. It is a much better vehicle than my pick up truck. This is a Corvette that looks to be in pretty good condition. Black, pretty sharp car. I'm sure there are a lot of young men crammed into...
Thanks to the glories of YouTube, we can watch as the government mandates the destruction of perfectly good automobiles to “help the economy.” Here is a very nice 1990s Dodge Dakota 4X4 being destroyed . It is a much better vehicle than my pick up truck. This is a Corvette that looks to be in pretty good condition. Black, pretty sharp car. I’m sure there are a lot of young men crammed...
OGDEN -- An Ogden man will stand trial on charges of automobile homicide and failure to stop for police, a judge ruled Wednesday after a preliminary hearing. Mark Mora, who was 17 at the time, was a burglary suspect being chased by police on April 22 when he crashed the late-1990s model Cadillac Deville he was driving into a Mitsubishi Lancer at 28th Street and Washington Boulevard. The two occupants...
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Investigators said Jesse Masters filed a police report on July 3 that claimed a black man with dreadlocks had stolen his 1990 Cadillac Deville while it was parked in front of a business on Moulton Street.
Auto dismantlers want the vehicles so they can sell the parts. Scrap metal recyclers want to crush them into tiny fragments, which they sell locally and internationally. The Lincoln Continental with leather seats, the shiny gray Mercedes-Benz, the immaculate Lexus ES 300 and the impeccable Cadillac DeVille seem out of place in this San Fernando Valley junkyard, where wrecks of VW bugs and pickup trucks...
FARMINGTON, Mo., Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Five people died in a head-on collision after a professional truck driver crossed a center-line near Farmington, Mo., police said. Walter Barker, 57, a longtime truck driver for Wal-mart, and his wife, Bessie Parker, 59, were killed as they returned from a high school reunion in their 2004 Pontiac GTO, the St. Louis (Mo.) Post-Dispatch reported Monday. A passenger...
A Sacramento man and woman died early Saturday in a fiery one-vehicle crash on Interstate 5 in South Natomas. A 24-year-old man was at the wheel of a northbound 1999 Cadillac DeVille when it spun off the road and smashed into a tree while exiting the freeway at West El Camino Avenue, according to the California Highway Patrol. Within moments of the impact, the car and the tree were fully engulfed...