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Corrections Sergeant, Wife, Kids Killed When Car Plummets Down Embankment (Update)
A correctional sergeant, his wife, and their two children were killed when their car plunged about 60 feet down a steep embankment on Saturday, Aug. 29, state police said.
Pennsylvania State Troopers were called around 10:16 a.m. to the area of 1365 Rock Mountain Drive in Gibson Township, Susquehanna County, where first responders found the sedan down the embankment.
Peter Thatcher, 45, and Sandra Thatcher, 45, both of Tunkhannock, police said, died in the crash along with their 11-year-old son, Noah, and 10-year-old daughter, Layla. Public records, their school, and their church later…
NJ Roofer Impaled By Railing In Fall, Airlifted To Hospital: Friends
A New Jersey business owner suffered life-threatening injuries when he fell from a roof and landed on a railing that impaled him through his side over the weekend, according to authorities and a fundraiser launched by a longtime friend.
Stavros Makris, 24, of Westfield, fell from the roof of a home on the 300 block of Wychwood Road around 1:34 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29, Westfield Police Chief Christopher Battiloro said.
Makris, a roofing contractor, had apparently been inspecting the roof to prepare a quote for repairs when he fell onto the pointed metal edge of a staircase railing, Battiloro …
DC Police Officer Dies Of Gunshot Wound Sustained At Police Station
A Washington, DC, police officer has died after suffering a gunshot wound at a local police station, the department confirmed.
The officer, who was not identified, was critically wounded at the Metropolitan Police Department's Second District station on the 3300 block of Idaho Avenue NW just after 5 a.m. Monday, Aug. 31, an MPD spokesperson tells Daily Voice. The officer was taken to a hospital, where he died.
"Nothing currently indicates that another party was involved," the spokesperson said.
At approximately 12:20 p.m., DC Mayor Muriel Bowser shared the following statement to X:
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