Stoned Driver Gets Maximum Sentence for Killing Woman in Vintage Porsche Crash

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…

3 teens killed in Lynnwood crash are identified; driver was 16

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,…

‘I want my dad back’: Letter written by Mass. State Police Trooper Thomas Clardy’s daughter read at sentencing of man found guilty in his death

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…

Teen driver charged in fatality had smoked marijuana before crash

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…