9-Year-Old Boy Dies Days After Hotel Pool Drowning In Poconos
A 9-year-old boy has died days after he was pulled from a hotel swimming pool in the Poconos, the Lehigh County Coroner's Office announced Thursday, June 25.
The child, who was from Chestnuthill Township, Monroe County, was pronounced dead at Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest at 3:51 p.m. on Tuesday, June 23, the coroner's office said.
An autopsy completed Thursday determined the boy died from complications of drowning, and Coroner Daniel A. Buglio ruled the manner of death an accident, the coroner's office said.
The drowning happened around 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 20, in the pool a…
DWI Seaside Heights Driver Who Killed Popular NJ Restaurant Owner Learns Fate: Prosecutor
A 51-year-old Seaside Park woman was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to vehicular homicide in the death of Robert Popovics, authorities announced Friday, June 26.
At 9:30 p.m., on Monday, Sept. 23, 2024, Seaside Heights police responded to Dupont Avenue and the Boulevard after a dark colored Sedan driven by Genell McInaw struck Popovics and fled the scene, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley Billhimer said.
Popovics, 75, was unconscious in the roadway with serious bodily injuries, Billhimer said. Popovics was taken to Jersey Shore University Medical Cent…
New London Driver Had BAC More Than 3 Times Legal Limit At I-95 Crash: Police
A New London man is facing multiple charges after police said he drove drunk, parked in a travel lane on Interstate 95, and caused a crash that seriously endangered his passenger.
Julio Osario Santos, 51, was charged with operating under the influence, unsafe parking on a highway, operating with a suspended license, reckless use of a highway by a pedestrian, and other motor vehicle offenses, according to Connecticut State Police.
The charges stem from a crash on the night of Feb. 3 on I-95.
According to an arrest warrant, first responders arrived to find a man lying in the roadway. Investi…
NJ Corrections Officer Killed In Motorcycle Crash, Union Says
A New Jersey corrections officer has died following a motorcycle crash, according to the New Jersey State Policemen's Benevolent Association Local 105.
Senior Corrections Police Officer Aaron A. Elly, 29, of Cinnaminson, died after the crash, the union announced. Details of the crash were not immediately available. Elly's obituary says only that he died on May 31.
A GoFundMe by PBA Local 105 had raised more than $11,000 as of Thursday, June 4.
"Officer Elly was a dedicated correctional police officer, a respected coworker, and a friend to many. Our thoughts and prayers are with his fa…
Family Killed On Way To Wedding In Stafford Identified As Devout Christians, Immigrants
A Massachusetts family traveling to a wedding in South Carolina has been identified among the five people killed in a devastating chain-reaction crash involving a charter bus on Interstate 95 in Virginia.
Providence Christian Academy announced Friday, May 29, that members of the Doncev family died in the crash, which happened shortly after 2:30 a.m. in the southbound lanes of I-95 in Stafford County.
Relatives identified the family of four as Dimitri Doncev, 45, and his wife Ecaterina Doncev, 44, along with their two children, Emily, 13, and Mark, 7, all of Greenfield, MA.
The family …
Motorcyclist Killed After Violent I-91 Windsor Crash Throws Him Into Opposite Lanes
A Massachusetts man was killed after being ejected from his motorcycle during a crash with a pickup truck on I-91 in Connecticut on Memorial Day, police said.
Juan Miguel Martinez, 26, of North Hampton, Massachusetts, was killed following the 8:30 p.m. crash south of Exit 39 north in Windsor, Connecticut State Police said.
According to investigators, Martinez's 2010 Ducati Streetfighter rear-ended a 2019 Toyota Tacoma, sending the motorcycle into a jersey barrier. The impact launched him from the bike, and he landed in the southbound lanes.
Paramedics rushed him to Hartford Hospital, where…
'Fantastic Son': Services Set For Brick Student, Aspiring Engineer, Struck, Killed By BMW
Jackson Mueller, who was struck and killed by a BMW driven by another juvenile in Brick on Monday morning, May 19, is being remembered as a beloved son and brother, according to his obituary from the O'Brien Funeral Home website.
An honors student who was set to complete his freshman year at Brick Memorial High School, Mueller was set to attend MATES, a specialized STEM school in the fall, his obituary reads. An aspiring engineer, Mueller was an officer in the National Junior Honor Society and the treasurer for student council at Veterans Memorial Middle School, according to his obituary.
A…
Clark Crash: 5 Young Adults Seriously Injured When Car Slams Barriers, Overturns On Parkway
Five people were injured in a crash on the Garden State Parkway early Saturday morning, May 2, authorities said.
Troopers responded to a motor vehicle crash at approximately 1:30 a.m. on the northbound side near milepost 137.1 in Clark, Charles Marchan, a spokesperson for the New Jersey State Police said.
A Honda passenger car driven by a 21-year-old Howell resident was traveling north when it struck a left concrete barrier, crossed the center lanes, struck a right metal guardrail, and overturned, Marchan said.
Four Long Branch residents, between the ages of 18 and 20 were inside the vehic…
Quinton Woman Killed In Route 647 Crash: Njsp
A 28-year-old Salem County woman was killed in a crash on Route 647 on Sunday, April 5, authorities said.
At 3:57 p.m., troopers responded to County Route 647 south in Quinton after a Chevrolet passenger vehicle, driven by Sunshine Jones, crossed the centerline and collided with the side of a Toyota passenger vehicle, Christopher Postorino, a spokesman for the New Jersey State Police said. After the initial impact, the Chevrolet and the Ford collided, Postorino said.
Jones was pronounced dead at the scene, Postorino said. The passenger of the Chevrolet sustained moderate injuries and w…
Former Hershey Cubs Hockey Player Killed In NY Crash
A former Hershey Cubs hockey player was killed in a violent overnight crash near his New York campus, leaving the hockey community on two continents in mourning.
Bradly Burden, 22, of Alaska, died around 1 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, after the BMW he was driving crashed at Main Street and Cleveland Avenue in Niagara Falls, according to the Niagara Falls Police Department.
Burden was driving northbound “at a high rate of speed” when he lost control, and the vehicle spun into a steel pole at the intersection, police said.
“The driver side of the vehicle made contact with the pole first,” police s…
15-Year-Old Bicyclist Struck By Biglerville Driver ID'd: Coroner
A teenage girl killed in a bicycle crash has been identified, authorities and family announced.
Ariel Anna Willever, 15, of Shippensburg, died from multiple traumatic injuries after being struck by a vehicle, the Dauphin County Coroner’s Office announced on Tuesday, Feb. 24. Her death was ruled accidental.
The crash happened around 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 15, near the intersection of Cleversburg and Baltimore roads in Southampton Township, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
Nichole R. Moate, 48, was driving a Ford Escape north on Baltimore Road when she struck Willever, who wa…
