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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1997
Page
1
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In Concord Township a pickup carrying two mothers and 11 children crashed after a dump truck struck it. Nine children and both mothers died. Survivors Adam Orange, 9, and Deandre Scott, 7 months, were hospitalized with critical injuries. The driver of the pickup had a suspended license and may have run a stop sign. The dump truck driver was uninjured. Authorities consider this a record-scale disaster in the county.
A Ford Explorer carrying high school band members tried to pass in a no-passing zone on a rural North Carolina road. The vehicle was T-boned by a tractor trailer, killing nine people and injuring one. The crash occurred during a band camp lunch break near Plymouth, about 100 miles east of Raleigh.
A federal grand jury charged six with conspiracy and bribery after an FBI sting of a $155 million downtown hotel and convention center project. Indicted are former councilmen Ben Reyes and John Peavy Jr., current members Michael Yarbrough and John Castillo, former port commissioner Elizabeth Maldonado, and lobbyist Ross Allyn. If convicted, penalties range 15 to 50 years.
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