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• More Head Injuries in High School Athletes

  Shannon Weidemann | July 24, 2007 4:19 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Head & Brain Injuries

  A study released by the American Journal of Sports Medicine has shown that high school athletes are three times more likely to suffer a catastrophic head injury than college athletes. The study was conducted by Dr. Barry P. Boden on 94 cases that happened between 1989 and 2002. Boden's group defined catastrophic head injuries as injuries resulting in death, permanent disability or serious...

• Carroll County Car Accident Leaves Two Injured

  Shannon Weidemann | July 10, 2007 2:57 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  A car and a semi-truck where involved in a motor vehicle accident on Interstate 77 in Carroll County. The accident happened on Friday morning and caused many traffic delays. It happened in the southbound lanes at mile marker 20, north of Hillsville. Witnesses told authorities that a car traveling too fast ran up under a tractor trailer. Both vehicles wrecked and caught fire. Both drivers of...