Told to either move away with their dogs or have the dogs taken away from them, Gary and Susan Kolb originally said they would move out. As neighbor Ron Barone said, "Why wouldn't you move to a farm up here? There's acres and acres and acres of land up here." But,...
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Year: 2012
Post-exposure rabies treatment in dog bite cases
One of the biggest challenges in dog bite cases is positively identifying the owner of the dog. If a dog bite occurs while inside someone's home or on that person's property, the problem becomes much easier to solve. But when the dog bite occurs in a park - such as...
Fatal wreck involving improperly operated flatbed loaded with sheetrock
In this case, the fact that the flatbed truck driver has been cited roughly eight times for driving without a commercial driver's license makes this a pretty clear case of truck driver negligence, given the circumstances. FM 2978 near the Hardin Store Road...
Truck traffic cited in Eagle Ford oil boom ‘frenzy’
As Jennifer Hiller reports for Fuel Fix, a Karnes County woman describes some recent automotive-related events. These include: The bottom of her car scraping the road from driving in ruts creating by oilfield trucks, her boyfriend almost getting injured or worse in...
Two School Buses Collide, Killing One in San Antonio
An accident involving one school bus is bad enough but last week saw a San Antonio crash in which one bus slammed into a second one. Both buses had children on board at the time. While several children were injured, the crash killed one of the bus drivers....
Fatal Eagle Ford Shale Truck Crash
Two large commercial vehicles crashed into each other last week, killing one of the drivers. The accident happened south of San Antonio and involved a giant crane and a tractor trailer. As the Eagle Ford Shale boom continues to increase heavy trucking traffic, these...
Staples and Stitches After Bad Dog Attack in Odessa, TX
Shannon Murray's CBS 7 story describes a thin stray dog trotting up to an Odessa woman while she was taking out the trash in the morning. The woman, Bonne Anthony, could see its rib cage. She felt sorry for it. Thinking the animal hungry, she threw dog food. That's...
Recent Accident Involving Hit-And-Run Big Rig Driver Claims 16 Lives
On Saturday the driver of a big rig caused a horrific truck accident in Coahuila in northern Mexico, an accident that claimed the lives of 16 people, according to Channel 6 News (KRIS TV) in Corpus Christi, Texas. The big rig driver left the scene of the accident....
Fatal Accident Involving Ambulance and 18-Wheeler
On Tuesday this week, the driver of an ambulance pulled out against a red light. The woman in the passenger seat of the ambulance, an emergency medical technician who is said to have loved her job, probably didn't see it coming. As the ambulance pulled out, the...
Pit Bull Busts out of Kennel, Mauls Grandmother to Death
As Denise A. Justin reports for Opposing Views, a woman died a "gruesome death" from an animal attack, as the police officer on the scene described it, when her granddaughter's pit bull broke out of its kennel and mauled the woman to death. It was supposed to be the...