Twinsburg officer saves child from vehicle that rolled over
A Twinsburg police officer crawled into a rolled-over vehicle and freed a child stuck in a car seat inside on Saturday.
According to Twinsburg police, officers responded to a crash at about 7:10 p.m. Saturday on Interstate 480, east of state Route 91.
Officers found an overturned vehicle in the middle of the eastbound lanes. The driver and a small child who was secure in a car seat were inside, according to the post.
The child’s legs were losing color, so Officer Yamil Encarnacion crawled into the wreckage. According to the post, he cut the safety seat free, and took the child and seat out of the vehicle.
Police said both the child and mother driving only sustained minor injuries, and attributed that to the use of proper seat belts and a child seat.
Akron police discover erratic driver was wounded in shooting
Akron police pulled over a car that was driving erratically only to discover that the teen driver had multiple gunshot wounds.
According to police, officers stopped the car at about 8:30 p.m. Friday in the North Hill neighborhood. The car reportedly had caused multiple accidents.
The 18-year-old male driving the car had been shot, police say. The male told officers that two men in another vehicle pulled up next to his car and opened fire. Police did not specify where the shooting occurred.
The victim was taken to Summa Health Akron City Hospital for treatment. His wounds were not life-threatening, police say.
No arrests have been reported and no information on possible suspects was released.
Police: Xenia man found dead after trying to kill his wife
An armed man who ran after his wife and tried to shoot her was later found dead from an apparently self-inflicted wound, authorities said.
Xenia police responding to reports of shots fired in a neighborhood around 7:30 a.m. Monday soon found the woman, who had escaped unharmed.
A Greene County SWAT team responded and tracked her husband, Harold Myers, to the garage of a home. After several failed attempts to make contact with him, they entered the garage around 9:45 a.m. and found Myers dead from a gunshot wound.
Authorities have not said why Myers was chasing his wife.
No other injuries were reported in the incident.
One man found dead, one sought after boat crash on Ohio River
Emergency crews have recovered the body of one man and are searching for another man missing after a boat crash on the Ohio River near Ripley — 50 miles southeast of Cincinnati — over the weekend, authorities said.
Fire department crews and rescue teams were dispatched after a crash between a pontoon boat with two fishermen and a speed boat in front of the Ripley Boat Club sent five people into the water shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday, officials said.
The three people from the speed boat were rescued and one was flown to a hospital. Crews searched Saturday for the two men from the pontoon boat.
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources said Monday that one man was found dead, and searchers were still trying to find the other man.
Akron school board reverses course, brings back fall sports
The Akron School Board voted 4-3 on Monday to resume fall sports and marching band, after previously voting to cancel sports and face-to-face extracurricular activities due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Board members Diana Autry and Derrick Hall called Monday’s special meeting, after students and parents held protests and signed petitions asking for sports to resume.
The school board voted on Aug. 10 to pause all sports practices and games, following guidance from the Summit County Public Health department urging districts to hold off on sports until at least Oct. 1.