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Yahoo
08-07-2025
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Patrol reports 8 fatalities over holiday weekend
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — The Missouri State Highway Patrol released a preliminary report on Monday, giving a tally of highway and waterway injuries and fatalities from the Fourth of July weekend. Overall, the patrol reported eight fatalities on Missouri's highways, zero boating fatalities and no drownings during the holiday counting period, which started Thursday, July 3 and lasted through Sunday, July 6. MSHP reported 246 crashes on the state's roads, including 115 that involved injuries. Troopers also cited 114 individuals for driving while intoxicated. The Missouri Water Patrol worked nine boat crashes, four of which involved injuries. Officers also cited 13 individuals for boating while intoxicated. The worst fatality involved two deaths and occurred in Putnam County. A driver and passenger perished when their vehicle traveled off the right side of the roadway, struck a tree, and began to burn. They were pronounced dead at the scene by the Putnam County Coroner. In northwest Missouri, a 71-year-old woman died when she walked into the path of an eastbound vehicle. The incident occurred on U.S. Highway 136, just west of Interstate 365. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene by Harrison County's coroner. No traffic fatalities were reported on Sunday.
Yahoo
23-06-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Serious crash leads to closure of Interstate 84 west in Putnam County
A serious motor vehicle crash led to closure of Interstate 84 west in Putnam County on Monday, June 23, New York State Police said. According to a news release, police responded at 1:48 p.m. for a serious collision on I-84 in Kent. Traffic was being diverted off at Route 311, the police said, and drivers were advised to seek alternate routes and expect significant area delays. No other information was immediately available. (This story may update.) This article originally appeared on Rockland/Westchester Journal News: Serious Kent, NY crash leads to closure of I-84 west in Putnam County
Yahoo
08-06-2025
- Yahoo
Collision between two motorcyclists leaves a St. Augustine man dead, three injured: FHP
A 22-year-old man from St. Augustine was killed Saturday night after colliding with another motorcyclist and an SUV, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. FHP reports four motorcyclists were riding west together on State Road 100, near Lakeview Drive in Putnam County, around 9:05 P.M. [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks] The 22-year-old hit the left side of another motorcyclist, which sent him into the opposing lane and into a head-on collision with an SUV, FHP said. He died on the scene. The motorcyclist he hit, a 28-year-old from Keystone Heights, came to a stop in the grass shoulder of the road and was left with minor injuries. A man and a woman from Virginia were in the SUV, according to FHP. They were taken to the hospital with serious injuries. >>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<< [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter]
Yahoo
04-06-2025
- Business
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Mike Lawler's third 2025 town hall is in Putnam County this month. What to know
Rep. Mike Lawler is holding a third town hall meeting after two rowdy gatherings at which constituents grilled him about Trump administration actions and Republican plans to cut spending on Medicaid and other programs. Lawler, a Rockland County Republican serving his second House term, will be at Mahopac High School in Putnam County at 6 p.m. on Sunday, June 8. It's part of a series of four town halls he planned, one in each of the four counties in New York's 17th Congressional District. The first two gatherings were in Rockland County on April 27 and in Westchester County on May 4. Both were raucous events where audience members booed and jeered Lawler's responses and some were removed from the auditorium by police. The fourth forum is supposed to take place in Dutchess County this month; the date and location haven't been disclosed yet. Residents must sign up in advance for the forums, and only those who live in the district are allowed in. The Putnam County event is currently listed as "sold out." But with the previous forums, additional spots have opened up after initially reaching capacity as registrations were cancelled for people from outside the 17th District and those who claimed multiple seats, according to Lawler's office. The town hall comes after House Republicans narrowly passed a party-line bill on May 22 that extends the 2017 tax cuts and shrinks federal spending. That legislation, now pending in the Senate, gave detail to what were previously rough budget plans and offers fresh grist for discussion at Lawler's latest forum. Lawler has been weighing whether to run for governor instead of re-election in 2026 and has said he will announce his decision this month. Six Democrats already have lined up to run for his seat in a critical Hudson Valley swing district that will help determine which party controls the House after the next election. Chris McKenna covers government and politics for The Journal News and USA Today Network. Reach him at cmckenna@ This article originally appeared on Rockland/Westchester Journal News: Mike Lawler's Putnam County town hall is Sunday, June 8: What to know
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Yahoo
Death sentences upheld in the murder of boys
The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an appeal by a man who received two death sentences in the 2020 murders of two boys in a Putnam County home. Justices upheld two first-degree murder convictions and two death sentences for Mark H. Wilson, who killed Tayten Baker, 14, and Robert Baker, 12, who were the nephews of Wilson's girlfriend. Wilson and his girlfriend, Cindy Guinan, and their 14-month-old child had moved into a shed on the Baker family's property five days before the murders, according to the Supreme Court opinion. The boys' mother, Sarah Baker, woke on Aug. 26, 2020, to find them murdered. Their heads had been beaten with a hammer and their throats had been cut, according to the Supreme Court opinion. Wilson was arrested after his mother told police that she thought he was responsible for the murders. Wilson told authorities that he thought the boys were hurting and abusing his girlfriend and the 14-month-old child, though officers found no evidence to support those allegations, the Supreme Court opinion said. Wilson also said he had been using methamphetamine on the day of the murders. In the appeal, Wilson's attorneys raised a series of issues, including alleging that the trial judge erred by rejecting proposed 'mitigating evidence' about the methamphetamine use. But the Supreme Court rejected the arguments in a 49-page opinion. 'Here, there was no objective evidence establishing by the greater weight of the evidence that Wilson was impaired at the time of the murders,' said the opinion, fully shared by Chief Justice Carlos Muniz and Justices Charles Canady, John Couriel, Jamie Grosshans, Renatha Francis and Meredith Sasso. 'No one who observed him close in time to the murders saw any indication that he was under the influence of any substance.' Justice Jorge Labarga concurred with the result of the opinion but did not fully sign on. Wilson, now 34, is an inmate at Union Correctional Institution, according to the Florida Department of Corrections website. Click here to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And click here to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.
