An 8 year old boy in Culpeper County was killed by a drunk driver on May 16, 2008. According to Virginia State Police, a 38 year old driver lost control of his 1999 Acura and ran off the left side of the road, bounced over an embankment, and rolled several times before he struck a…
A 26 year old North Carolina man was killed early Sunday morning when his car flipped several times in Virginia Beach. Police believe that the man was travelling at about 85 mph at the time. Police are unsure at what time the accident occurred. The last phone call went out from the man’s cell phone…
A 49 year old Abingdon, Va., man was struck by a train in the early morning hours of Tuesday, April 8, 2008. The man was walking on the Virginia Creeper Trail, which is near the railroad tracks, on his way home. Abingdon Police Chief Tony Sullivan noted that the tracks provide a shortcut to “just…
Obsetrician practicing again after 7 malpractice suits
A study from the University of North Carolina has demonstated that skin cancers can vary in lethality depending on where they start. After considering over 50,000 cases of melanoma in the past decade, the researchers concluded that patients whose lesions begin on their scalp or neck died nearly twice as fast as cancers that began…