- Eddie Farah | January 30, 2008 11:09 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsHe was laid to rest today.19-year old Jacob Casey was a football player for Jacksonville University but his early years were in Ocala.That's where he died last Saturday on a joy ride with four other young men all under the age of 20. The five young men ages 18-20 were piled into a 2008 BMW and traveling at a high rate of speed on an Ocala "fly-in" community Jumbolair Aviation Estates. That...
- Eddie Farah | January 26, 2008 11:30 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsLisa Green appeared before a judge Thursday morning facing two counts of DUI causing serious bodily injury and one count of DUI manslaughter.Green, 43, allegedly got drunk and drove her Mitsubishi off the road at I-95 and Baymeadows just days before Thanksgiving. Three men were working surveying in the area and Green plowed into Mike McAndrews killing him. The other two men were hospitalized...
- Eddie Farah | January 26, 2008 8:51 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsA local student at Jacksonville University is among the five teenage boys killed in an Ocala runway crash in an exclusive "fly-in" community.Jacksonville University football player Jacob Casey was a freshman and 19 years old. For some reason he and four of his friends ranging in age from 18 to 20, piled inito a $75,000 BMW in the exclusive Ocala community known as Jumbolair Aviation Estates....
- Eddie Farah | January 24, 2008 10:29 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsAllstate Insurance executives are expected to be called by Tallahassee investigators early next month to talk about how the insurance giant makes rates and pays claims. It's part of the state's investigation into how Big Insurance does business in Florida. The state is also trying to get the play book on how Allstate does business. Known as the McKinsey documents, named after a consulting firm...
- Eddie Farah | January 24, 2008 7:26 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsIt is a question of being in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong drivers involved.Two weeks ago, a truck and a fire engine collided at an intersection. Four firefighters were injured. Luckily no one was killed.Now after an investigation by the FHP, no charges will be filed because everyone was at fault.Engine 51 had its lights on and was speeding to a trailer park fire. The truck...
- Eddie Farah | January 19, 2008 9:30 PM |
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MiscellaneousLuckily no children were hurt on a school bus when it collided with an SUV on Thursday.But the passenger in the SUV was killed. 73-year-old John Robert Ryder of Zephyrhills, Florida was riding with driver, 70-year-old Carole Jean Ryder in Yulee Thursday afternoon.Her SUV turned in the path of an oncoming Nassau County school bus.It happened at the intersection of I-95 and SR A!A.Ryder was...
- Eddie Farah | January 17, 2008 1:37 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsA young teen poses nude and a friend put the image on their MySpace page. It probably happens more often than us parents would like to think. Afterall social networking is an easy way to stay connected to people and avoid the unpleasantries of face to face encounters.But a Jacksonville Beach teen could be facing felony child pornography charges after the innocent prank.The mother of a Fletcher...
- Eddie Farah | January 17, 2008 8:54 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsIt was a simple act of running a stop sign on county road 215 in Middleburg.But that split second mistake took three lives and on Tuesday it sent the driver to prison, possibly for the rest of his life.Edward Abruscato, 40 was found guilty by a Clay County jury. When Abruscato ran the stop sign in November 2006, he plowed into a Nissan which then spun into the southbound lanes of 215 and was...
- Eddie Farah | January 16, 2008 8:13 PM |
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Workplace InjuriesIt was a bit of a standoff in Tallahassee today between the state Insurance Commission Kevin McCarty and Allstate executives.Seems they were under subpoena to bring documents into a hearing. They didn't. Allstate decided the request was "irrelevant." McCarty was so angry he suspended Allstate companies from writing any new auto policies.The meeting was supposed to last two-days but was...
- Eddie Farah | January 12, 2008 11:50 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsFlagler County was the scene of a still unsolved hit-and-run Thursday night and the FHP would like your help in finding a pickup truck that might be involved.The pedestrian was hit crossing state Road 100 in Flagler County. According to witnesses, the driver of a two-tone Dodge pickup was spotted passing another car and then striking Frederick Dunham of Bunnell. The condition of the 35-year old...
- Eddie Farah | January 11, 2008 3:17 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsAn estimated 5,000 to 10,000 cases will be filed in Florida courts today under a deadline set to file lawsuits for smoking related illnesses. A 2006 state Supreme Court decision decertified a class-action punative verdict of $145 billion, the largest award ever granted against the tobacco companies, but directed injured smokers to file individual lawsuits.Smokers all over Florida who got sick...
- Eddie Farah | January 09, 2008 10:10 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsOn crowded I-4 when there is a accident it is a massive one and that's exactly what happened this morning near Lakeland.Visibility was limited by fog and smoke from a brush fire. One out of town grandmother rolled her rented 2005 Ford Explorer, just part of a chain reaction that involved 50 crashes, burned bodies, vehicles and tractor trailers. The scene resembled a horrible "day after"...
- Eddie Farah | January 09, 2008 2:49 PM |
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MiscellaneousHe says he still can't feel his face. Jacksonville police officer James Brunet and another officer were injured the night of the Super Bown XXX!X when they were patrolling the St. Johns River working security. That dark February night three years ago, the boat they were in crashed into pilings from the old Fuller Warren Bridge.Brunet, 44, had seven surgeries, facial reconstruction and a...
- Eddie Farah | January 05, 2008 11:22 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsHe is suspected to be the same driver who left the scene of an accident on Atlantic Boulevard early Friday.23-year-old Verchard Housand reportedly then fled that scene and drove to Art Museum Drive where he lost control of his vehicle on a curve as the road goes under the Hart Expressway. It flipped over, crashed through a fence and landed on its roof. Housand died instantly. JSO was alerted by...
- Eddie Farah | January 04, 2008 9:09 PM |
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MiscellaneousIf you live within a mile of the Atlantic, you can say goodbye to your State Farm homeowner's insurance coverage.The insurer will stop writing policies in March 2008, despite the fact that we haven't had a direct hit from a hurricane since 1964! State Farm is one of the last companies to pull out after billions have been lost in Florida. But let's not forget, State Farm has collected far more...
- Eddie Farah | January 03, 2008 11:00 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsBlame it on the ice. Well not entirely.Since we so infrequently encounter driving on icy roads, it's understandable that this new experience might throw some people off. Apparently it threw some cars off the roads too Thursday morning.Just after 7 this morning a vehicle reportedly flipped over at Argyle Forest Boulevard at Water Mill Road. The number of injuries reported is unclear this...
- Eddie Farah | January 03, 2008 6:24 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsWe've all been there.You hear the sirens when you are driving and stop what you're doing. This is serious business and most of us try as hard as we can to get out of the way of emergency vehicles knowing a life might be at stake. Knowing that could just as easily be you or me. That didn't happen early Thursday morning. Engine 51 was responding to a trailer fire and trying to get around traffic...