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According to police in Grand Junction, at about 5:50 p.m. Tuesday, a 17-year-old teenage boy apparently sped off the south edge of Grand Avenue in the 700 block and then veered into the westbound lanes in the 800 block, where he struck a motorcyclist, identified as Preston Ellis, 57, and a parked car. Ellis was killed. The teen, who was armed, fled the scene with his backpack and a gun. He then forced a woman and her two children out of their SUV on the east side of Washington Park.
At about 3:30am, a semi-truck changing from northbound I-405 to northbound I-5 rolled onto its side, resulting in its cargo, millions of bees in boxes each containing about 5000, being spilled across the freeway. Thousands of bees escaped, and while beekeepers are using smoke to calm the bees and attempt to reload them, firefighters had to resort to using foam to kill many of them. The driver of the bee truck was not injured in the crash, and cleanup of the scene should be complete by about 10:00am.
A driver was killed after he crashed into a cane field around 9 a.m. Wednesday as he was trying to pass a vehicle at high speeds along Rosedale Road near Poydras Bayou Drive in West Baton Rouge Parish. A woman in the car told first responders that she had been kidnapped by the man on Tuesday night in East Baton Rouge Parish. The woman was airlifted to a hospital. We'll update this story as more information becomes available.
Kenneth Golightly ordered two EMTs from an ambulance with his knife, then stole the vehicle and went speeding off into the city with the emergency lights on. Witnesses say he reached up to 70 mph. The joyride ended when the ambulance crashed into a fence. Golightly attempted to flee the scene, but a witness was able to direct officers to him. He was taken into custody, with his bond set at $20,000.
What you need to know after a serious Texas car accident
It was about 9:30pm when a police officer attempted to pull over a woman on West Cerritos Avenue in Cypress, and she sped away, leading Cypress police on a high-speed chase through city streets. At one point, the woman apparently threw a dog out of her car window, before crashing just inside the city limits of Anaheim on South Nutwood Street. She was arrested and is suspected of DUI, as well as animal cruelty and evading arrest.