Juanita Collins still reaches to brace her daughter when an oncoming car doesn’t fully stop at an intersection.
The Alliance resident also slows way down when she drives through the intersection of state Route 619 and McCallum Avenue NE in Lexington Township. That’s where Collins was driving with her then 13-year-old daughter, Alyssa Barron, on Feb. 9 when another car failed to stop at a flashing red light and struck their vehicle.
The impact of the crash deployed the airbags and sent Collins’ car into a utility pole, which broke in half due to the impact.
Collins said she is thankful that she, Barron and the 19-year-old driver in the other car all had been wearing their seat belts. They each walked away from the crash with only cuts and bruises.
Mom Charged For Brutally Beating, Killing Son With House Furniture
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He was taken to a hospital but was later pronounced dead
The toddler s 24-year-old mother was arrested for allegedly beating the child and charged with murder
A 24-year-old woman from Canton, Ohio, is facing murder charges after her 17-month-old son died from allegedly being beaten with household furniture Monday.
Officers were responding to an indecent exposure report in the 1900 block of Maple Avenue Northeast shortly before 5 p.m. when they encountered a nude woman walking on the sidewalk, WDTN reported, citing Canton Police Department chief Jack Angelo.
The woman was identified as Mary Guarendi-Walker, WJW reported.
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BOLIVAR A suspect was wounded Tuesday following a standoff and police chase in the Bolivar area.
Sheriff Orvis Campbell said his office was asked at 10:20 a.m. to investigate a suspicious letter that was left in a mailbox.
A deputy responded to a home in the 1300 block of Russell Drive NW, Lawrence Township, to question a suspect. The deputy did not get an answer at the door. As the deputy walked back to his car, he heard a gunshot and saw where a bullet round had hit the ground in front of the house, Campbell said.
The deputy got into his car and retreated to a position of safety and called for back-up. Other deputies arrived, as well as Bolivar and Strasburg police. At that time, a person from the house came out, raised a long gun and fired at deputies.
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BOLIVAR A 68-year-old man who fired repeatedly at law enforcement officers on Tuesday had not been acting right since his wife died in November, a neighbor told a Tuscarawas County sheriff s deputy.
The neighbor said there had been times when Donald Whiting drove recklessly up and down Russell Drive NW, and had sat in his vehicle at the home of another neighbor, a woman.
It was a complaint from that woman, who said Whiting had put into her mailbox an odd letter that made no sense, that started the chain of events that ended hours later after Whiting fled his home and crashed his truck about 10 miles away in Fairfield Township.