Graduated licenses cut teen crash risk in two states
Studies of Michigan and North Carolina shows 16 year olds' crashes fell after graduated license rules. Michigan teens 16 saw 25 percent fewer crashes in 1999, while North Carolina reported a 23 percent drop with nighttime crashes down 43 percent and fatal crashes down 57 percent.
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Chicago
Michigan
North Carolina
U.S
States
Washington, D.C
Jean Shope
University of Michigan
Man spared death penalty in carjacking murder
In Kansas City, AP reports Kim L. Davis was sentenced to life without parole for murdering 6 year old Jake Robel during a carjacking. Jake died after being dragged from his mother's Chevy Blazer when Davis drove away from a sandwich shop parking lot. Davis claimed he did not know the boy was attached to the vehicle.
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Kansas City
Kim L. Davis
Jake Robel
Davis
Christy Robel
Jake
EEOC Sues Ford Over Lynching Remark And Diversity Policy
The EEOC accuses Ford Motor Co. of failing to discipline a white employee who allegedly told a black coworker it was a good day for a lynching at Ford's New Model Product Development Center in Allen Park Michigan. The agency seeks enhanced diversity training new disciplinary procedures and supervisor accountability amid prior noose and slang allegations dated 1999. Ford says it agreed in principle to a settlement and has signed a consent decree while another undisclosed settlement with the reporting employee was reached.
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Allen Park
Mich
Ford Motor Co
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Rosemary Mazon
Ford
New Model Product Development Center
Detroit
Anne Gattari
Mazon
Gattari
Commission
Robert Dawkins
Man arrested after weekend on Catalina for murder
A 25 year old man, Stephen Reitz, was arrested on Catalina Island for investigation of the murder of his girlfriend Eva Weinfurtner. Investigators said the two were guests at Casa Mariquita when Weinfurtner was found with stab wounds and other injuries. Reitz, described as emotionally unstable, reportedly claimed they had a spontaneous fightless incident. He is jailed without bail ahead of an arraignment in San Pedro Municipal Court.
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Calif
Catalina Island
Stephen Reitz
Los Angeles County
Eva Weinfurtner
Reitz
Casa Mariquita
Weinfurtner
L.A
Ken Gallatin
Gallatin
Weinfurther
San Pedro
Catalina
California
Shery Winters
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