CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – The Cleveland Police Department confirms the rider of the electric scooter that was hit by a car on East 9th Street on Saturday night at about 10:00 p.m. has died. According to police, 19-year-old Scott A. McHugh was driving a Chevy Cruz well in excess of the posted 25 MPH speed limit southbound on East […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – The man charged with assaulting a 62-year-old RTA bus driver was sentenced to two years in jail Wednesday morning. Jamaur Raybon was charged for the Jan. 15, 2018 incident where he hit the driver in the head with a brick when he boarded the bus near East 149th Street and Lakeshore Boulevard, seriously injuring […]
ROCKY RIVER, OH (WOIO) – A 39-year-old man is in custody after a police chase early Monday morning. Rocky River police said Michael King is the fraudulent tow truck driver wanted by numerous police agencies. Just before 2 a.m., an officer said they spotted King acting suspiciously behind a business in the 19000 block of Center Ridge […]
AKRON, OH (WOIO) – Three teens are in custody tonight after a FedEx worker posted a video on Facebook catching them committing crimes in Akron. A FedEx driver told Akron Police he saw the teens ride off with a package he had just delivered. “Here’s a FedEx driver basically out doing his job delivering packages […]
(RNN) – A taxi crashed into a group of pedestrians, injuring several, the Massachusetts State Police tweeted. Officials tell CNN that the accident is a result of driver error. Ten people have been taken to several different hospitals, some with serious injuries, the Boston Globe said. The incident occurred at 1:44 ET at the taxi pool of Logan […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – The RTA bus driver who lost her job after she hit and killed a woman crossing the street in Public Square was indicted by a grand jury. Antoinette Peterkin was indicted on the charge of aggravated vehicular homicide. Joan Kuendig was crossing in a marked crosswalk near Key Tower on Ontario Street on […]
PARMA HEIGHTS, OH (WOIO) – Charges have been filed against the woman who police said was involved in a crash following a summer concert in Parma Heights. Donna Chidsey, 74, turned herself in on a complaint/warrant for vehicular homicide. Chidsey was charged with 2 counts of vehicular homicide in the deaths of Kathleen McDonald and […]
Judge Barry Williams declared Officer Caesar Goodson not guilty of second-degree depraved murder — the most serious of charges — Thursday morning. Judge Barry Williams handed down a not guilty verdict in the bench trial for Officer Caesar Goodson, the third officer charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray, according to theBaltimore Sun. Thursday’s decision […]
A New York City judge has ordered a yellow taxi driver to pay $25,000 in fines and compensation for bypassing a Black executive and her family to pick up White passengers, according to DNAInfo New York. Judge Raymond Kramer ruled last week that Baqir Raza must pay $10,000 in compensation toCynthia Jordan and a $15,000 […]
70-year-old Ken Wayne Broskey is a terminally ill Uber driver who took the job to pay off the house he shares with his daughter and grandchildren. Broskey has been battling oropharyngeal cancer with lung mestases and recently, he’s been bumped up to a terrifying stage 4. Doctors gave him two to 10 weeks to live […]
Evidence points out to another person at the initial scene of the crime suggesting that the person accused was not the one who shot and killed a drunk driver. (CNN) — A father and his two young sons were pushing a truck that had run out of gas down a road in December […]
There were no passengers in the bus during the crash. (CNN) – On drugs and in control of a 35-ton vehicle. Video shows Shaun Murphy, a bus driver in Australia, smoking synthetic cannabis behind the wheel. For a moment, he steers with his elbow, having no control at all at times. Finally, the […]