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As the pickup truck the young girl was riding in careened down the road, out of control at 80 mph, 12-year-old Miranda Bowman knew one thing: She had to stop it. Miranda was riding home with her grandfather, Paul Parker, Tuesday from an afternoon of go-karting when he told Miranda he didn’t feel […]
Jordan Ghawi received one of the most horrific phone calls imaginable early Friday morning.His mother, “hysterical and almost unintelligible,” phoned with news that his sister, 24-year-old Jessica Ghawi, had been shot at a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colo., Jordan blogged Friday.
Ashley Nicole Valdes was a smart, pretty 11-year-old girl who often cared for her younger, mentally disabled sister while their single mother studied to be a paramedic. In January, while crossing the street to get to her home west of Miami, Ashley was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in a pickup truck — and became a heart-wrenching symbol of South Florida’s notoriously reckless car culture.
John Travolta’s lawyer testified Tuesday that the paramedic who drove Travolta’s son to a hospital the day he died later wanted money for documents the driver suggested could be detrimental to the actor. Paramedic Tarino Lightbourne and former Bahamian Sen.