North Carolina man pleads guilty in fatal New Year's Day crash
WILMINGTON – It was New Year’s Day and Steven Michael Derengowski and his friend Billy Ray Kolasa were partying.Beer. Weed. Bottles of New Amsterdam spirits.It was after 8 p.m. and Derengowski and Kolasa raced down River Road in a 2004 Chevy pickup. The cab was littered with empty cans and bottles. Derengowski missed the first road closure sign 3 miles from the construction site. He missed another a mile away. He failed to heed the last warning sign before he […]
