An Alaskan woman fell 60-feet down a cliff because she was texting on her mobile phone. Maria Pestrikoff, of Anchorage, suffered multiple injuries after she walked close to the steep drop to toss a cigarette butt while attempting to send a message and slipped on wet grass. She toppled over, landing on rocks near the […]
AKRON, Ohio – Veteran Akron Beacon Journal columnist Bob Dyer said his conversations with a Doylestown woman led to the “most bizarre story he has worked on in 28 years.” Valerie Spruill, 60, contacted Dyer with a desire to spill her family secret. They chatted on the phone several times and Spruill eventually agreed to […]
(WOIO) – The Canton woman raped, beaten, and set on fire, has died. The vicious attack happened this past weekend in Muskingum County. She has now been identified as Celeste Fronsman, 29. Sheriffs deputies say Fronsman died at 2:22 p.m. Tuesday at Columbus University Hospital. An autopsy will be conducted and the investigation continues. Police […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) -A Cleveland woman is on a crusade to free Jimmy Dimora just as the kingpin in the County Corruption Investigation solicits money to get out of prison.Dimora is a career politician so asking other people for money is what he does best. 19 Action News tracked down the law firm who’s behind […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – An investigation is underway after a racist hate crime in Cleveland. Police were called to Lawn Avenue around 7 a.m. Sunday for a vehicle that had been vandalized. The victim told police that her vehicle, which was parked on the street, had been spray painted. Officers found that the vehicle had […]
(WOIO) – The body recovered in Frisco, NC on Saturday July 14th has been identified as that of Lynn Jackenheimer of Ashland. Her cause of death has not been determined. The body was located Saturday, about 25 miles south of where Lynn Jackenheimer was vacationing in the Outer Banks. The body was found in a vacant […]
ASHLAND, OH (WOIO) – Sheriff’s Deputies are looking for a 33-year-old mother who never returned from vacation with her boyfriend and two kids. Ashland County Sheriff’s Captain tells 19 Action News Lynn Jackenheimer went to Nags Head, North Carolina last week with 27-year-old Nathan Summerfield and her children, ages 3 and 13. Summerfield returned on […]
Folks just don’t learn! 60 year old Violet D’Mello, was wrestled to the ground by a captive big cat after she went into an enclosure at a wildlife park where tourists are invited to pet the animals. The shaken housewife, from Aberdeen, was on vacation with her 64 year old husband Archie, when the terrifying […]
AKRON, OH (WOIO) – A woman busted for stealing thousands of dollars from an elderly woman. Police say 33-year-old Carrie Henderson took $12,100 worth of jewelry from a 71-year-old woman while she was hospitalized. The victim was in the hospital for a week, and when she came home, she noticed her jewelry was missing and […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - The Cleveland Division of Police Homicide Unit is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of an unidentified woman. Monday at approximately 10:46 a.m., Third District zone cars responded to 3400 block of Hamilton Avenue for a dead body. Once on scene officers located the unresponsive victim, believed to be in her 30's, partially buried in the snow with contusions and abrasions to her head and hands.
LORAIN, Ohio – A 52-year-old northeast Ohio woman is facing charges after deputies say she harassed 911 dispatchers over the phone. On Monday, a deputy stopped at Marlene Thomas’s home after her brother claimed she was harassing him over the phone. The deputy said she needed to stop or she’d be arrested. “At that point […]