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Nov. 18, 2009Pablove Across America ride wraps up Saturday in Los Angeles
Over the past month spent cycling across the United States in an effort to bring awareness to the cancer that claimed the life of his 6-year-old son Pablo, Los Angeles-based record label co-founder Jeff Castelaz has faced tornado warnings, muscle ...
Nov. 18, 2009Inside the making of the NEW VeloNews.com homepage.
One afternoon last winter, VeloNews.com editors, web developer Scott Cropper, art director Mike Reisel, and associate art director Heidi Carcella sat down to sketch out a "dream homepage."
With the results from two recent reader surveys in hand, ...
Nov. 3, 2009Road-rage verdict: victims speak
The courtroom gallery was filled to capacity Monday as a jury of seven women and five men announced it had convicted former emergency room doctor Christopher Thomas Thompson of assaulting a pair of cyclists last year by abruptly stopping his car in ...
Nov. 2, 2009Dr. Thompson is found guilty of all counts in LA road rage trial.
A Los Angeles Superior Court jury on Monday found Dr. Christopher Thomas Thompson guilty of assaulting cyclists by abruptly stopping his car in front of them on a hilly Los Angeles County road last year.
Thompson, a former emergency room doctor, ...
Oct. 30, 2009LA road-rage trial closing arguments wrap up
Prosecutors and defense attorneys made closing arguments Thursday in Los Angeles, in the trial of a former emergency room doctor accused of injuring two cyclists when he stopped his car suddenly in front of them.
Dr. Christopher Thomas Thompson's ...
- Oct. 29, 2009LA road-rage defendant says he stopped to try to take a picture
Dr. Christopher Thomas Thompson said he never intended to hurt a pair of cyclists who hit the back of his car on the Fourth of July 2008. He told a court Wednesday that he stopped to try to take a picture of the riders after a verbal confrontation, ...
Oct. 28, 2009Dr. Thompson takes the stand in his trial on assault charges.
Dr. Christopher Thomas Thompson took the stand in his defense on Tuesday afternoon in Los Angeles in his trial on assaulting cyclists in 2008.
Thompson answered preliminary questions from his defense attorney, Peter Swarth; Thompson is expected ...
Oct. 26, 2009The Kelly Benefit Strategies team goes to Africa, while Kona AfricaBikes go to Vietnam
As the 2009 season draws to a close, a few companies and teams are extending their efforts across the world in various charitable endeavors. Kelly Benefit Strategies riders traveled to Africa in support of World Bicycle Relief, and Kona’s ...
- Oct. 26, 2009Mailbag: Take the lane, beware of texters and ... Modesto?
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- Oct. 26, 2009Prosecution rest in LA road rage case. Defense will call witnesses Monday.
Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Mary Stone rested the prosecution’s case against Dr. Christopher Thomas Thompson on Friday afternoon, following five and a half days of testimony in Thompson's trial on assault charges.
The charges stem from ...
- Oct. 22, 2009'I wanted to teach them a lesson." — Road rage trial resumes.
A traffic investigator told jurors in the Los Angeles road rage trial this week that a driver’s comment at the scene of the incident “was so shocking his words burned into my brain.”
Dr. Christopher Thomas Thompson is on trial in Los ...
- Oct. 20, 2009Defense attorney cross-examines cyclists in LA road rage case
Two cyclists were looking for a fight before an incident that led to assault charges being filed against a California driver, the driver's attorney suggested in court Monday. The attorney for Dr. Christopher Thomas Thompson also suggested that one ...
