A Toyota Prius encountered a stuck accelerator and made headlines as a "runaway car." The Prius accelerated out of the driver's control per reports from the California Highway Department. James Sikes, a sixty one year old, was driving along the bustling Interstate 8 near San Diego, California,...
Toyota was fined a record $16.4 million by the United States Department of Transportation for failing to promptly disclose problems with their accelerator pedals sticking on certain models. When a manufacturer becomes aware of such a potential safety issue, they have five business days to notify...
An Arizona bus crash has left six people dead and many others seriously injured. The accident occurred near Phoenix, Arizona on Interstate 10 South at 5:27 local time. State officials reported that the roof of the bus was crushed when the bus crashed head on into a car as it was en route from...
Iconic 1980s era singer Rick Springfield was arrested for driving under the influence. Springfield was driving in Los Angeles, California on the evening of Sunday, May 1, 2011 when officers from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department pulled over the Jessie's Girl singer. The officers reported...
Arkansas officials are investigating a horrendous incident along a twenty mile segment between the Ozark Dam and the Highway 109 Bridge in Franklin County involving a massive amount of dead dead fish which washed ashore last week. Officials from the Arkansas Game and Fish Department dispatched an...
Glenwood Springs, Colorado, was the site of a massive rockslide which closed a 17 mile stretch of Interstate 70. The rockslide occurred at approximately midnight on Sunday, March 7, 2010. The rockslide occurred west of the Hanging Lake Tunnel in Glenwood Canyon along the Rocky Mountain range,...
Aesop's FablesBy Aesop Translated by George Fyler Townsend The Wolf and the Lamb Wolf, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you...
