The heartbroken family of a tourist who was struck and killed by a red light-running bike rider last summer requested mercy for the cyclist, prosecutors said Monday, believing he should become a bicycle safety advocate instead of an inmate. A remorseful Randolph Ang, 23, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter Monday in connection with the July 15 collision at Mission Street and The Embarcadero that killed Dionette “Didi” Cherney, 68, of Washington, D.C.
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The Halifax Stanfield International Airport was the site of another Nova Scotia contract dispute as commissionaires gathered to send the message to their employer that they want to be back at the bargaining table. The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) local 85100 has been without a collective agreement since January 2011, according to officials, […]
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Just as the city’s buses start to come back, Haligonians on the move may find their travel plans disrupted in another realm: the Halifax International Airport. The members of PSAC Local 851000 work for Commissionaires Nova Scotia at the Halifax Airport, and are preparing to strike over a serious impasse with their employer over their […]
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Federal officials said they don’t believe the estimated 7.6 earthquake that struck near Acapulco, Mexico on Tuesday will result in any tsunamis off the California coast.”A strong earthquake has occurred, but a tsunami is not expected along the California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, or Alaska coast. No tsunami warning, watch or advisory is in effect […]
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None of the three people should have been on the streets of Sarasota’s Newtown neighborhood at 3 a.m. last April 16. Shawn Tyson, a 16-year-old school dropout who had been released from jail less than 24 hours earlier, was supposed to be at his mother’s Newtown home. One judge wanted to keep Tyson in jail, […]
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Police say a pregnant Massachusetts woman and her unborn baby died when a car crashed into a South Florida hotel pool cabana. According to Fort Lauderdale Police, a Plantation woman lost control of her vehicle Sunday afternoon and drove over the curb and sidewalk and into a poolside cabana at the […]
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KEYSTONE, Colo. (CBS4) – A tourist was killed during a ski trip to Keystone and police say the man who hit him was driving drunk.The accident was Saturday night while the victim was trying to cross Highway 6 at Rasor Drive in Keystone. Read article
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German tourists Sammy Hellwig, 73, and his wife, Tracy, 60, were heading for their parked car in the 3200 block of Sunrise Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale (FL) on Monday (March 5) when they decided they would both stop at the restrooms before going to their car. Unfortunately, three men followed Mr. Hellwig into the men’s […]
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Air Canada’s machinists, baggage handlers and cargo agents have issued a strike notice for Monday. The airline said that the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW), which represents the airline’s approximately 8,600 mechanics, baggage handlers and cargo agents in Canada, said that it will go on strike at 12:01 a.m. Monday. The strike […]
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TORONTO — Air Canada is threatening to lock out its pilots next week in the midst of the spring break holiday for thousands of families in Ontario after making what it described its “final and best” contract offer. The airline set a deadline of 12:01 a.m. ET on Monday, the same time as a strike […]
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