by | Dec 26, 2024 | The Hill
MIDTOWN, Manhattan (
) – Bystanders in New York City who saw
near Herald Square on Christmas Day helped lift the vehicle off them, video showed.
The 58-year-old driver of the taxi
, which led him to drive onto the sidewalk near Macy’s at West 34th Street and 6th Avenue around 4 p.m., according to authorities.
A video viewed by Nexstar’s WPIX showed witnesses jumping into action to rescue a 9-year-old boy and a 41-year-old woman pinned underneath the taxi in the minutes after the crash.
“The driver never hit the brakes,” Ryan Tucker, a tourist who helped the victims, told WPIX. “As we got up there, everything was still spinning. The little boy’s leg was underneath the tire, just spinning and smoking. So, a couple of gentlemen got the car off … we kind of lifted it back, where we were able to pull the boy out.”
The young boy suffered a laceration to his right thigh while the woman had an injury to her head, according to authorities. A 49-year-old woman had a leg injury. All three are expected to recover from their injuries.
Tucker told WPIX that the 41-year-old woman who was pinned under the car was awake and coherent the entire time. She was communicating with her son, the 9-year-old boy, the tourist said.
Three other people — a 19-year-old girl, a 37-year-old woman, and another 49-year-old woman — were also injured but refused medical attention at the scene.
No additional details were immediately available.
by dap | Dec 26, 2024 | Chicago Tribune
A Chicago woman is facing multiple battery and resisting law enforcement charges after intentionally hitting a Scherville Police officer outside Up Your Alley.
Christina Talore Lloyd, 28, is charged with battery with bodily injury to a public safety officer, a Level 5 felony; battery by means of a deadly weapon, a Level 5 felony; resisting law enforcement, a Level 6 felony; resisting law enforcement, a Level 6 felony; and misdemeanor criminal trespass and disorderly conduct.
Around 7:06 p.m. on Dec. 22, a Schererville Police officer was working security in her marked patrol vehicle at Up Your Alley, located at 1048 Indianapolis Blvd., when management asked her to come inside, according to the probable cause affidavit. The officer saw several people surrounding the manager and screaming at him. Despite numerous requests to leave, they were screaming and spreading throughout the lobbying playing music, court records state. They started to damage property as well. Eventually, the group exited into the parking lot, records state.
Most of the people dispersed except for a few women who were parked in front of the officer’s patrol vehicle. The officer told them to leave but they yelled profanities and said “You can’t make us,” the affidavit states. The officer said she needed their IDs to issue trespass warnings, then told them that they would be charged. At that point, the women got into their vehicles, while continuing to yell at the officer, court records state.
When the officer said that they weren’t free to leave and asked for identification, Lloyd got into a silver Hyundai and yelled “watch this” before putting the car in drive and hitting the officer in the knee and leg, records state. Lloyd refused to stop but eventually reversed and drove off. The officer got into her patrol car and pulled over Lloyd, who tried to drive off again, the affidavit states. Officers eventually pulled over Lloyd near Deer Creek Drive, but she fought with officers when they tried to remove her from her vehicle.
by dap | Dec 26, 2024 | Chicago Tribune
From the start of the year, when the primary election season was starting both in Lake County and across the country, the presidential race was contentious while the situation locally was much calmer.
By July, when Vice President Kamala Harris replaced President Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket and a would-be assassin nicked President-elect Donald Trump’s ear with a bullet, Lake County Democratic and GOP volunteers were flocking to Wisconsin to a campaign on behalf of their candidates as the local campaigns hummed along relatively quietly.
And, when the results were in, voters nationally decided it was time for a change — back — in the party of the president, while Lake County residents largely cast their ballots for the status quo when it came to the local races. That juxtaposition made the election season one of the Lake County News-Sun’s top stories of 2024.
Lake County Republican Central Committee Chair Keith Brin said Thursday that — just like in 2016 and 2020 — some local Republicans outperformed Trump, but the GOP still has work to do to elect more candidates locally.
“Trump’s election was in a silo,” Brin said. “He did not seem to have much influence in down-ballot races. The candidacy of Donald Trump did not translate to down-ballot races.”
Though Trump received more votes statewide than he did four years ago, Lake County Democratic Chair Lauren Beth Gash said Wednesday that was not the case in Lake County, where Harris handily outpolled him.
“We worked very hard here in Lake County, and Trump did not make gains here,” Gash said. “For the second election in a row, Lake County rejected him by a significantly higher margin than the rest of the state.”
Part of the reason all Democratic incumbents, from the U.S. Congress, Illinois General Assembly and Lake County, won their races was hard work, she said. Gash said volunteers started their outreach early, and continued through the Nov. 5 election.
“It was neighbors talking to neighbors,” Gash said. “We engaged voters where they were. We did phone banking, text banking and talked to voters at their doors.”
State Rep. Martin McLaughlin, R-Barrington Hills, said hard work was the reason he was reelected to a third term in the Illinois House of Representatives by 47 votes, though he said he was outspent 17-to-1 by Democratic opponent Maria Peterson and her backers.
McLaughlin received 29,520 while Peterson got 29,473 of 58.993 ballots cast, according to the official results.
Between money raised by Peterson’s campaign and outside interest groups locally, statewide and nationally, McLaughlin said $3 million was spent to defeat him. He raised $170,000. His campaign ordered 12,000 mailers, ran out and ordered 2,000. Thousands of doors were knocked on by a record number of volunteers, he said.
“People understand I’m not Donald Trump,” McLaughlin said. “I have a very reasonable approach. I base my position on numbers. If the numbers work, I advocate on behalf of my constituents.”
Across Lake County, Trump received 38.92% of the votes, while Harris got 59.69%, according to the Lake County Clerk’s official election results. In the contest for Lake County state’s attorney, Democrat Eric Rinehart won with 54.81% to Republican Mary Cole’s 45.19%. Gash said outside groups worked against Rinehart.
In the election for Lake County coroner, Democratic incumbent Jennifer Banek won with 58.35% of the votes to the GOP’s Mark Symonds’ 41.65%, while Democratic Circuit Court Clerk Erin Cartwright Weinstein was reelected with 56.43% to Republican challenger Carla Wykoff’s 43.57%.
