CALUMET CITY, Ill. (WLS) — Two people were killed, including an 18-year-old on his way home from an after-prom party, after a crash in south suburban Calumet City, police said. Aaron Dunigan was in a car with two other teens when their car slammed head-on into another car early Saturday morning, police said. Dunigan and the…
A Strongsville man was sentenced to 18-months in prison for causing an accident that killed a Brunswick man in June of last year. Timothy Bene, 27, received the sentence from Judge Nancy McDonnell on Monday morning. Bene pleaded guilty to one count each of vehicular homicide and tampering with evidence on February 7, 2012, related…
A man charged in a Shawano County for killing three teens in a vehicle crash in 2014 has been sentenced to 15 years in prison with 30 years extended supervision. Ryan Swadner, 20, entered a plea to three counts of homicide while under the influence of a controlled substance and one count of causing injury while…
LAKE STEVENS — A Mill Creek man was killed and two other people were seriously injured Friday night in a four-vehicle crash on Highway 9. The head-on wreck happened about 10:45 p.m. just north of Highway 204. A man in a Subaru Impreza was northbound on Highway 9 when he reportedly began passing a 1990…
The three high-school students killed in an early morning crash in Lynnwood on Wednesday have been identified by the Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office. The victims are Landon M. Staley, 16, of Everett; Travin K. Nelson-Phongphiou, 16, of Everett; and Mikayla Sorenson, 15, of Bothell. The cause of death for each was listed as multiple blunt-force injuries,…
There was a familiar sound Reisa Clardy heard that made her know one thing, her husband was home safe. But Massachusetts State Police Trooper Thomas Clardy’s black boots no longer walk through the door of their Hudson home. Reisa remembered her husband in Worcester Superior Court Thursday as the man convicted of killing Clardy was…
The 17-year-old Mequon girl charged in the traffic crash that killed her friend had marijuana in her bloodstream, records show. Madeline Kudlata was charged Thursday with homicide by negligent operation of a vehicle in the September rollover crash that killed Sydney Tabakin a fellow Homestead High School senior. A prosecutor and a lawyer representing Tabakin’s family in a civil…
SEATTLE — A Lake Stevens woman has died from injuries she suffered in a crash along Highway 9 in December. Stephanie Proffitt, 27, died Jan. 19 at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, according to the Washington State Patrol. The crash also killed Tyler Martel, 27, of Mill Creek. The two were in Martel’s Subaru Impreza about…
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A teen who admitted using marijuana shortly before he caused a crash that killed two people in Brown County has been sentenced to five years in prison. Devon Robley was 17 when he ran a stop sign after smoking marijuana at a county park in Ledgeview in July 2016 and…
TACOMA,Wash. — The 23-year-old man arrested in an Interstate 5 crash in Lakewood that killed three people smoked marijuana and took the anti-anxiety drug Xanax in the hours before the fatalities and was looking at his phone just before the incident, court documents say. Court documents say the man, identified as Montrell Red, routinely uses both drugs…
A man facing charges for killing two teenage boys walking on a sidewalk near Ferndale on Wednesday, June 10, told investigators he was sleepy but not under the influence of drugs during the crash, according to attorneys working the case. William J. Klein, 34, was driving a black SUV on West Smith Road with his…
BRENTWOOD, NY — The 19-year-old man who fatally struck a 4-year-old girl with his car while driving in Brentwood on Tuesday night was reportedly high on marijuana, according to multiple reports. Suffolk Police say Brentwood resident Christian Yanes was driving a 2018 Honda Civic northbound on Fulton Street at 6:50 p.m. when he struck Roussy A. Cabrera…