MIDDLEVILLE, Mich. (WOOD) — A 29-year-old Middleville woman faces charges in connection with the hit-and-run death of a bicyclist Friday evening. Kelleigh Hobbs could face up to 15 years in prison on charges of leaving the scene of an accident resulting in serious impairment or death, moving violation causing death and possession of marijuana. On…
It was an emotional scene in Superior Court on Friday as the driver who struck and killed 7-year-old Cadence Boyer while she was trick-or-treating Halloween night last year was sentenced to more than 16½ years in prison. Cadence’s family called the sentencing a bittersweet ending. Duane C. Abbott tearfully apologized for the first time to…
SOUTH BEND — The woman accused of hitting and killing a 7-year-old Mishawaka boy pleaded guilty Tuesday without a plea agreement. Kayla Bennett, 22, pleaded guilty to causing a death while operating a motor vehicle with a schedule I or II controlled substance, a Level 4 Felony. Her sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 22, and…
MANTECA, Calif. (KGO) — The Manteca community is in mourning after three people were killed in a crash Tuesday night. Fourteen year-old Christy Limas was Maddie Brown’s childhood friend. Brown was still trying to process her unexpected death. “I’ve known her since 3rd grade and we became best friends in the sixth grade so she’s been…
SEATTLE — The Bellevue man accused of driving high on marijuana and killing a motorcyclist will be allowed out of jail, for now. But before that happened, Caleb Floyd had to hear from the victim’s mother. Floyd no longer has a $100,000 bail. It was vacated Thursday morning. Floyd is accused of smoking marijuana and…
OAK HARBOR, Ohio — The Ohio Highway Patrol has identified the third teenager killed Thursday morning in a two-vehicle crash in Salem Township. Joshua Coy, 19, of Oak Harbor died shortly after the 11 a.m. crash at Magruder Hospital in Port Clinton. Officials initially withheld Mr. Coy’s name because his family had not yet been…
HAYWARD, California — A California Highway Patrol officer died late Sunday night, and another was injured, when a speeding car drifted off the road and slammed into their stopped patrol car on the shoulder of southbound I-880. Police say the 22-year-old man was drunk when he plowed his red Cadillac into the officers, and may have…
DAYTON, Ohio — A coroner’s office says a driver killed when he drove the wrong way on Interstate 75 and crashed into a tanker truck full of gasoline had alcohol and marijuana in his system. The Montgomery County Coroner’s Office says 30-year-old Andrew T. Brunsman, of Centerville, died from multiple blunt force injuries in the April…
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A Scripps Ranch woman who was stoned when she drove into a vintage Porsche, killing a woman, received the maximum prison sentence Friday, three years after the fatal collision. Hyun Jeong Choi will serve 11 years, 8 months for gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and DUI causing injury. Choi’s defense was that she had un9knowingly…
ALLEGAN, Mich. – A former Grand Rapids resident who now lives in North Carolina has been charged with Operating While Intoxicated by Drugs Causing Death in a fatal crash in Wayland in March. Read the full article here.
A woman who said she vaped with a cannabinoid oil, drank a beer and was still feeling the effects of a sleep aid and muscle relaxant is accused of plowing into two families with her SUV in Revere Sunday, killing a 5-year-old girl and critically injuring the tot’s baby sister, prosecutors said. Autumn L. Harris, 42,…