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Monday, March 10, 2014

An out-of-control car smashed into a Delaware town hall overnight sending at least one person to the hospital and leaving the town cleaning up bricks and debris.

A man was driving along Justis Street in Newport, Del. when he missed a curve, jumped a curb, hit a sign, drove over a stretch of lawn and smashed into Newport Old Town Hall around 1:30 a.m.

The impact of the wreck left gaping hole under a window in the side of the historic New Castle County building that is used for town meetings and court hearings in the town of about 1,000 residents.

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Monday, March 10, 2014
Two men led police on a foot chase Tuesday night in Paxtang Borough after they sped away from a traffic stop and their vehicle crashed into a tree, according to police. Deon William Gilmore, 21, the passenger in the car, was arrested following the incident. Gilmore, of the 1600 block of Regina St., Harrisburg, was found with marijuana and a loaded 9 mm semi-automatic handgun, police said. Police have also prepared an arrest warrant for Jerell L. Tate, 21, of Harrisburg, who is the driver of the car and remains at large, Ofc. Shaun Burke confirmed Thursday.
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Monday, March 10, 2014
Police have identified the man killed in a moped crash on Route 1/East Main Street in Clinton last night. According to police, 40-year-old Kenneth Waite of East Main Street was driving his moped westbound in the wrong lane when he collided with an SUV driving in the opposite direction. It happened on East Main Street around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. Police said Waite died at the hospital. East Main Street was shut down in the area of Marine Avenue while authorities investigated and worked to clear the scene.
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Monday, March 10, 2014
Authorities are looking for the driver involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident early Tuesday morning. Deputies responded to the 7000 block of FM 1960 around 3:30 a.m. after witnesses reported seeing a woman's body in the middle of the road. As of Tuesday morning, investigators hadn't released any information regarding the woman's identity, and they said it's still not clear why she was in the middle of the road. Detectives closed FM 1960 and diverted traffic while they conducted their investigation. All lanes of FM 1960 reopened shortly before 8 a.m.
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Monday, March 10, 2014
According to the coroner's office, Kendra Crawford, 21, and Christopher Walker, 22, both were pronounced dead around 8:00 a.m. from multiple blunt force trauma. Their motorcycle crashed near Jeffersontown, just north of Blankenbaker Parkway and Taylorsville Road. The victims were found dead hours later in two different yards in the 4100 block of Rivulet Court.

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Monday, March 10, 2014
The man who died in a crash with a semitrailer truck on Highway 151 was identified Wednesday as Joseph Kreklow by the Dane County medical examiner's office. Kreklow, 28, of Sun Prairie, was traveling northbound in the southbound lane of the highway when his vehicle struck the semi about 2 a.m. Tuesday. The headlights of Kreklow's vehicle were not on. Both vehicles were severely damaged, but the 63-year-old semi driver was not hurt.
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Monday, March 10, 2014
A motorcyclist struck a pothole along a winter-worn stretch of a Minneapolis interstate and was thrown to his death, authorities said Wednesday. Anand Baskaran, 30, of the Long Island community of East Northport, N.Y., hit the pothole along eastbound Interstate 394 near Theodore Wirth Parkway about 9:50 p.m. on Tuesday, according to the State Patrol. Baskaran was wearing a helmet.
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Monday, March 10, 2014

Police have released more details about a deadly crash along Interstate 65 in Bartholomew County Tuesday night.

Indiana State Police officials said the crash around 8 p.m. killed 56-year-old Michael Otte, of Whiteland. Otte was driving northbound on I-65 when his car crashed into the back of a semi that was stopped because of a traffic backup in the area. Otte died at the scene, and the semi driver wasn’t hurt.

Investigators believe Otte may have been distracted while driving.

As a result of the crash, I-65 was closed for more than two hours. It has since re-opened.

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Monday, March 10, 2014

A fatal three-car accident closed both directions of U.S. Highway 95 for about two hours Tuesday afternoon at the Spokane River Bridge in Coeur d’Alene. The Idaho State Police reports that Stephen L. Pedersen, 60, was driving north when he crossed the centerline and collided head-on with a car driven by Leonard G. Hammrich, 74, of Hayden Lake. Pedersen, a resident of Coeur d’Alene, was killed. Hammrich was taken to Kootenai Health for treatment of his injuries. The third vehicle involved, driven by Coeur d’Alene resident Adam Jacobson, 35, was driving north behind Pedersen.

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Monday, March 10, 2014
One person was killed and four others injured in a weather-related head-on crash Tuesday morning in Spanish Fork Canyon. Killed was 34-year-old Clinton Lee Logan, of Springville, Utah. At about 8 a.m., Logan was driving westbound on US Highway 6, about six miles west of Soldiers Summit, when his Honda Civic was struck by an eastbound Infinity carrying two adults and two children, the Utah Highway Patrol reported. The driver of the Infinity was attempting to pass a semi truck when snow and slush on the roadway obscured the driver’s vision, the UHP said.