| Drivers challenged by rain-wet streets | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 2:46:37 AM by Blog57 Team | | A 58-year-old woman is hospitalized with a broken arm after she crashed into a guardrail on Highway 49 Thursday, one of several accidents caused by slick roads during heavy rainfall. Connie Jones of Alta was reportedly driving too fast for rainy conditions, said CHP Officer Earl Cummins, when she lost control of her 2002 Chevrolet Trailblazer in the eastbound fast lane of the highway near the South Auburn Street undercross at about 12:20 p.m. Thursday. "She lost control, swerved across the slow lane and across the shoulder and hit a guardrail," Cummins said. An 18-feet section of the guardrail plummeted over an embankment and onto the tailgate of a Chevrolet pickup driving on Hansen Lane, which was located under the guardrail. "The woman who was driving the truck was really lucky," Cummins said.... | |
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| | | Correct poor cooling systems | | Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 10:45:51 PM by Blog57 Team | | I have had quite a few e-mails regarding cooling system problems, so today we are going to take a look at how a cooling system works and what type of problems you could be experiencing. Looking at a 2004 Chevrolet Trailblazer, we have a reservoir jug for the cooling system that says Dex-cool on top. The coolant is pink and is 100,000-mile change coolant. You never want to replace green or red coolant in this system. The radiator cap says never open when hot and you really should not open this cap at all because you can induce air into the system or, if it was hot, you could burn yourself. .... | |
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| | | Byrd's police report accuses recall organizer of fraud | | Posted Saturday, September 30, 2006 12:46:06 PM by Blog57 Team | | Susie Byrd filed a police report Friday accusing Howard Vanoy Barton of fraud for allegedly misinforming people about the purpose of a petition he circulated to recall her. Byrd alleges Barton told senior citizens in her district that the petition called for lower property taxes for the elderly or that it was about improving services for the elderly, but didn't say it was a petition to remove her from office. "His intent is to recall me, and he should have said, 'I have concerns about Rep. Byrd and would like to recall her,' " Byrd said. "I don't know the law on this. I just know it's wrong for a person to harm another by lying about them." Barton, who filed his recall petition with the city Wednesday, responded by e-mail to questions from the El Paso Times, saying, "Susie Byrd is using the Police Department to harass and intimidate me because hundreds of constituents want her recalled.... | |
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| | | CHAMBER | | Posted Wednesday, September 20, 2006 6:46:36 PM by Blog57 Team | | The keys to a 2006 Chevrolet Trailblazer were recently turned over to Chamber officials to be a hole-in-one prize at this Thursday's Carthage Chamber of Commerce Golf Tournament. The event begins with lunch at noon and has a shotgun start at 1 p.m. Pictured above with the vehicle are Golf Tournament Chairman Patrick Scott, Village Chevrolet General Manager Anthony Frohock, and Ken Johnson of the Carthage Chamber of Commerce. .... | |
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| | | Local news briefs: August 19 | | Posted Monday, August 21, 2006 8:45:55 AM by Blog57 Team | | Anne Fordham Smith was ejected from her motorcycle on the Lothian roadway after being rammed from behind by a SUV, county police said. Mrs. Smith was driving a 2004 Harley-Davidson Dyna Low Rider north on Route 4 around 7:40 a.m. when she was struck from behind by a 2003 Chevrolet Trailblazer, driven by Vicki Denise Hanbury, 54, of Calvert County. Mrs. Smith was knocked off the motorcycle and both she and the vehicle continued to travel along the northbound lanes of Route 4. The Trailblazer also continued forward, striking the rear of a 1990 Toyota 4Runner, driven by 20-year-old Amber Renee Leyland, of Lothian. The impact caused the 4Runner to strike a guardrail and roll onto its roof, police said. The Trailblazer eventually came to a stop in the woods on the side of the road.... | |
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| | | Two Paulding County teens killed in wreck | | Posted Sunday, August 20, 2006 2:45:59 AM by Blog57 Team | | DALLAS, Ga. Two Paulding County teens have died in a crash near the community of New Hope. The two killed in the single-car wreck just before 6:30 p-m yesterday are 17-year-old Jonathon Hicks and 16-year-old Rianna Winchester. Georgia State Patrol dispatcher J- Crider says both were passesngers in the back seat of the 2003 Chevrolet Trailblazer. He says both were ejected. The driver and a 16-year-old in the front passenger seat were taken to area hospitals for treatment. The four were current or former members of the marching band at East Paulding High School Band director Ron Becton says they were on their home from practice when the wreck occurred. Becton says Hicks was a senior percussionist; Winchester was a junior and had played clarinet in the band but was not marching this fall.... | |
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| | | Robbery motives emerge | | Posted Saturday, July 29, 2006 12:45:51 PM by Blog57 Team | | TAMPA -- Rafael Angel Rondon didn't want to work for someone else. His brother-in-law Emeregildo Roman was going through a difficult time. So the pair began their own business -- the kind that involves robbing banks, a Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigator testified in federal court Friday. They were good at it. The pair are suspected of pulling off 39 bank robberies in west-central Florida going back 51/2 years, netting more than $500,000. And when FDLE and FBI agents finally arrested them Thursday, investigators found more than $177,000 stashed in their homes in Clermont and Davenport. U.S. Magistrate Thomas Wilson said Friday that there is enough evidence to hold Rondon, 50, and Roman, 54, in the string of robberies and two attempts attributed to the "Band-Aid Bandit," a stickup artist who often wore a small bandage to cover a mole on his left cheek.... | |
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| | | GM Has Loss on Buyouts; Auto Profit Beats Forecasts (Update6) | | Posted Thursday, July 27, 2006 10:45:49 PM by Blog57 Team | | July 26 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Corp., the world's largest automaker, reported a second-quarter loss because of a $3.7 billion charge to buy out workers. GM's profit from operations exceeded analysts' estimates, sending its shares higher. The net loss widened to $3.2 billion, or $5.62 a share, from $987 million, or $1.75, a year earlier, GM said in a statement today. The company earned $1.2 billon on its primary business of making and financing automobiles. Excluding one-time expenses, global auto operations had their first profit since 2004. Revenue rose 12 percent to a record $54.4 billion. The results boost Chief Executive Officer Rick Wagoner's turnaround efforts and may ease pressure to accept an alliance with Nissan Motor Co. and Renault SA proposed by billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian.... | |
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| | | Officers search turns out be a 'misunderstanding' | | Posted Thursday, July 06, 2006 12:46:34 PM by Blog57 Team | | A police chase around Battlefield Park area this afternoon turned out to be a big misunderstanding, a Jackson police said. At about 3 p.m., officers were tailing a grey Chevrolet TrailBlazer they believed had suspects wanted in connection with a homicide in Alabama. But as it turned out, the Alabama allegation was bogus, and the men in the car werent suspects, Cmdr. Lee Vance said. Vance said he did not know how many officers were involved in the chase. He said the SUVs occupants will not face any charges. The TrailBlazer, which police had towed, will be held as abandoned property, Vance said. .... | |
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| | | Waterloo woman killed, two injured in Oklahoma accident | | Posted Wednesday, July 05, 2006 6:45:44 AM by Blog57 Team | | WATERLOO --- A Waterloo woman was killed and two others were injured Sunday in a two-vehicle accident on Interstate 35 in northern Oklahoma.Sheryl A. Dolan, 59, was pronounced dead at the scene after the Chevrolet Trailblazer she was driving was struck by a van at 2 p.m. Sunday just south of Tonkawa, Okla., according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.Two Waterloo women in Dolan's vehicle were taken to Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kan. Kathyrn F. Grimm, 56, was admitted in critical condition with head injuries, while Marianna G. Gibbons, 61, was admitted in serious condition with an arm injury, the highway patrol reported.Dolan was northbound in the left lane of the interstate when a van driven by Richard Benjes, 62, of Hutchinson, Kan., changed from the right lane to the left lane, forcing Dolan's vehicle off the road.... | |
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