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Pickup Driver Charged With DUI in Deadly Florida Crash

Florida Driver Faces 8 Counts
of DUI-Manslaughter

May 14, 2024 6:27 PM CDT

Florida Driver Faces 8 Counts of DUI-Manslaughter

Bryan Howard was driving pickup that sideswiped farmworker bus

(Newser) - The Florida Highway Patrol has arrested the driver of a pickup truck that crashed into a farmworker bus early Tuesday, killing eight, on charges of driving under the influence-manslaughter. Bryan Maclean Howard, 41, faces eight counts of DUI-Manslaughter, the FHP said in a statement. No further details were released, including...

Florida Bus Crash Leaves
8 Dead, Dozens Injured

UPDATED

May 14, 2024 12:08 PM CDT

Florida Bus Crash Leaves 8 Dead, Dozens Injured

Passengers were farm workers in Marion County

(Newser) - A bus crash in north-central Florida has left at least eight people dead and dozens more injured, reports CNN and the Ocala Star-Banner . The bus of farm workers overturned early Tuesday in Marion County, say authorities. CNN has the number of injured at 45, and the Ocala newspaper says eight...

3 Farm Workers
Dead, 5 Hurt in
Cali Van Accident

Jun 21, 2015 7:30 AM CDT

3 Farm Workers Dead, 5 Hurt in Cali Van Accident

Van rolled over when driver overcorrected: cops

(Newser) - Three people were killed and five others hospitalized Saturday after a van carrying farm workers overturned on a central California highway, authorities said. The victims were returning from a day of working in the fields when the accident occurred on State Route 152 in Merced County, says California Highway Patrol...

Undocumented Worker:
We're Not Taking Your Jobs

OPINION

Nov 6, 2013 12:02 PM CST

Undocumented Worker: We're Not Taking Your Jobs

Migrant worker tells her story to 'Modern Farmer'

(Newser) - Odilia Chavez, a 40-year-old undocumented migrant farm worker based in California, is the first person to tell her story in a new Modern Farmer "Farm Confessional" feature, and she has a message for anyone who thinks people like her are stealing American jobs: "We’re not taking their...

Hire Local? Farmers Who Seek US Workers Hit Hard

Oct 5, 2011 10:04 AM CDT

Hire Local? Farmers Who Seek US Workers Hit Hard

Even with high unemployment, Americans walk off too-hard job

(Newser) - John Harold is trying to do the right thing when it comes to harvesting his 1,000-acre Colorado farm, by hiring only legal foreign workers and, this summer, offering more positions to unemployed locals. But “it didn’t take me six hours to realize I’d made a heck...

'A Little Slavery'
Is Not OK, Gov. Crist

OPINION

Mar 2, 2009 5:54 PM CST

'A Little Slavery' Is Not OK, Gov. Crist

(Newser) - A dozen years of prosecutions against Florida slave-holders still hasn't convinced Gov. Charlie Crist to back the cause—but he better, Barry Estabrook writes in Gourmet. Advocacy groups, who have tried for 2 years to meet with him, now threaten to re-enact slavery abuses in the state’s capital. Such...