April 19, 2009

Jail escapees suspected of murder back in custody

By Calvin Palmer
Two men suspected of killing a 66-year-old woman after they escaped from a Florida jail are back behind bars.
Acting on a tip that the ecapees had returned to Putnam County, deputies captured Doni Ray Brown, 23, and Timothy Wayne Fletcher, 25, yesterday.
The two will be charged with the murder of Fletcher’s 66-year-old relative Helen Googe whose [...]

April 19, 2009

Five children die after driver answers cell phone and loses control of car

By Calvin Palmer
Five children were killed in Houston yesterday when the car in which they were traveling slid into a rain-swollen ditch when the driver lost control while trying to answer a cell phone, police said.
The Lincoln Town Car veered off the road at about 5:00 p.m. yesterday in the 2200 block of Greens Road [...]

April 19, 2009

Passenger in fatal USC hit-and-run car arrested crossing border

By Calvin Palmer
A man sought in connection with the hit-an-run accident in Los Angeles that killed one USC student and badly injured another has been arrested as he tried to cross back into the United States from Mexico, police said yesterday.
Josue Luna, 32, of Los Angeles, was detained by federal agents at the San Ysidro [...]