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Authorities have made an arrest in connection with a hit-and-run in west Baltimore on Tuesday that killed a woman and a toddler and injured a 7-year-old girl.
Baltimore police said late Wednesday night that they arrested 28-year-old Lucresha Mints in connection with the case.
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Detectives said the intentional hit-and-run happened at Franklin and Monroe streets just after 9 p.m. Tuesday following an argument between Mints and 25-year-old Latoya Skipwith.
Authorities say a former Rochester police officer injured on the job as a rookie 13 years ago has died in a two-car collision while being rushed to a hospital.
Police in the suburban town of Greece tell local media that 43-year-old Felicia Gilchrist had a medical emergency late Tuesday night and was being driven to the hospital by her father when his car collided with another at an intersection.
She was later pronounced dead at Unity Hospital in Greece.
A teenage girl was killed in a single-vehicle rollover crash in western Nebraska.
Salena Cochrane, 17, of Gering was driving the vehicle when it went off a county road northeast of Mitchell around 7 p.m. Tuesday and rolled, according to Scotts Bluff County Attorney Doug Warner.
The girl was partially ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene of the crash. Passenger Christopher Miller, 20, of rural Mitchell was taken to a Scottsbluff hospital with injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening.
An Elgin man fleeing from police was involved in a crash early Tuesday evening that killed the driver of another vehicle, police said.
According to police, the man who was fleeing had a long criminal record and was wanted by police on an Illinois Department of Correction warrant for fleeing and eluding.
An 11-year-old Baton Rouge girl was thrown from a car early Tuesday along La. 1 in Lafourche Parish and killed, Louisiana State Police reported.
The girl was riding in a 2009 Mitsubishi Lancer that went off the road and rolled over after the driver lost control about 9 a.m., troopers said in a news release Tuesday.
The girl, who was not identified, was not wearing her seat belt and was pronounced dead at the scene by the Lafourche Parish Coroner’s Office, troopers said.
It happened around 6 p.m. Tuesday in the 4900 block of Dixie Highway near Lewiston Drive.
Police say 53-year-old Linus Kromenacker was driving a red and silver GMC truck when he crossed the center median, colliding with a blue pickup.
Kromenacker, who was not wearing a seat belt, died at the scene.
The other driver was taken to University Hospital with what police described as "serious injuries."
A Union City motorist is facing vehicular homicide charges after a teen fell from his vehicle and died Tuesday afternoon.
Officers responded to an injured person call just after 1 p.m. Tuesday at an apartment complex in the 4700 block of Flat Shoals Road, according to Union City police spokesman Chris Murphy.
A roadside memorial grew Wednesday morning on Old Statesville Road, scene of a single-vehicle wreck Tuesday that killed a 4-month-old girl.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said the infant was not in a child seat and was being held by a passenger in the back seat, and they accuse the driver of speeding and DWI.
A driver was killed and his passenger injured when his SUV and a Ford pickup truck collided on North Tustin Street in the city of Orange on Tuesday, May 27, 2014.
Police are looking for a hit-and-run driver involved in a collision that killed a man and injured a woman in Orange Tuesday night.
The victims were traveling in a Ford Explorer in the 1500 block of North Tustin Street around 9:40 p.m. when their sport utility vehicle collided with a Ford pickup truck, Orange Police Sgt. Bryan Meissner said.
The SUV overturned and the Ford pickup truck fled the scene.
Illinois State Police say Roger Hein, 56, crashed into a tree around 8:00 a.m. Tuesday between Stockton and Lena on Highway 20. Investigators say early reports show he may have suffered some kind of medical attack before the crash. Police are still trying to figure out what went wrong. The highway was closed for nearly ten hours.
UPDATE: A busy Stateline highway is expected to re-open soon. Police say a semi-truck driver is killed after slamming into a tree.
All lanes on U.S. Route 20 between Stockton and Lena have been closed for nearly eight hours.