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• Car Accident on 101 Kills One

  David Rowell | October 05, 2007 1:00 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  A deadly 4-car automobile accident on Highway 101 in Menlo Park resulted in the death of one person on Monday. In the first auto accident, a Ford Mustang collided with a Toyata Celica, blocking the northbound lanes. Immediately after the first collision, an Acura Integra and a Toyota Camry collided with the first vehicles. The driver of the Celica suffered major injuries and was pronounced dead...

• Fatal Auto Accident Kills One in San Francisco

  David Rowell | October 04, 2007 1:39 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  Zhang Bailan, a 37-year-old resident of San Franciso, has been arrested and charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence following a fatal automobile accident on Highway 101 in San Franciso Monday morning. Bailan was southbound on Highway 101 when he veered from the driving lane onto the shoulder, where William Lemus and Rodolfo Armenpa were fixing a flat tire on Lemus'...

• Deadly Collision Kills Bakersfield Men

  David Rowell | June 18, 2008 4:26 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  A deadly automobile accident Monday night in Coalinga killed two Bakersfield men. While traveling at a high rate of speed, Scott Duke, in a 2008 Volvo, slammed into the back of a dump truck at a...

• Child Killed in Kerman Auto Accident

  David Rowell | October 26, 2007 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  Vanessa Zamano, 9, of Kerman, was killed Monday night in a two-vehicle collision southeast of Kerman. The girl's father, Francisco Zamano, wsa northbound on Henderson Road, with Vanessa and another child as passengers in his Plymouth Neon. According to police, Zamano failed to obey a stopsign at the intersection of Henderson Road and McMullin Grade. Martha Decenteno, traveling westbound on...

• Topps Meat Closes After E. coli Contamination

  David Rowell | October 06, 2007 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  Last week, almost 22 million pounds of tainted ground beef, produced by Topps Meat Company of Elizabeth, New Jersey, was recalled by the USDA, the second-largest beef recall in U.S. history. On Friday, the CDC announced that an E. coli outbreak in 8 states, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Maine, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania, was linked to Topps Brand Ground Beef. The recalled beef...

• Fresno Man Killed in Collapse of Trailer

  David Rowell | October 03, 2007 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  Chris Beintker, 52, of Fresno, was killed Monday night when a trailer at his east-Fresno home collapsed as he was working underneath it. According to news reports, Fresno County Sheriff's Office responded to the scene, where Beintker was found pinned underneath the trailer. It is not clear whether the trailer, a jack or some other defective product collapsed, killing Beintker.For more...

• Deadly Automobile Accident Kills 3 Children in Tulare County

  David Rowell | September 24, 2007 9:11 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  A deadly automobile accident on Saturday killed 3 children in Tulare County. Tulare County Deputy Sheriff Joseph Armstrong was on his way to work in his pickup truck at about 1:00 p.m. when he ran a stop sign and collided with an SUV driven by Tanya Rader. Three children inside the SUV, ages two, three and five, died in the collision. Armstrong and Rader, both seriously hurt, were airlifted to...

• Lead Paint in Dangerous Toys

  David Rowell | August 17, 2007 9:03 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  Mattel, which manufactures Barbie dolls and Hot Wheel cars, on Tuesday recalled almost 500,000 die-cast toy cars with "impermissible levels of lead." This is Mattel's second recall in a month; on August 2 Mattel recalled almost 1,000,000 toys, of various product lines, also because the toys were "covered in lead paint." Despite Mattel's efforts to stop distribution of the toys, almost 300,000 of...

• David L. Rowell, Attorney at Law

  Staff Writer | April 17, 2007 3:57 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  Mr. Rowell received his legal training at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law (J.D., with distinction, 1991). While at McGeorge Mr. Rowell was selected for membership in the Order of the Coif and the Traynor Honor Society. He was an Oral Competition Finalist, Moot Court Honors Board, and a member of McGeorge's National Moot Court Competition Team. He received the American...

• More Tainted Beef Recalled

  David Rowell | October 07, 2007 1:00 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  About ten days ago consumers saw Topps Meat Company of New Jersey recall almost 22 million poinds of frozen ground beef patties, the second-larges ground beef recall in U.S. history, followed by Topps closure late last week. That recall was followed by a small recall by Impero Food & Meats, Inc., of Baltimore, Maryland. What was troubling about the Impero meat recall was that the same organism...