Author: Edward Campbell

A 14-year-old boy who died after an e-bike collision with a Tesla in Pacific Beach has been identified as Owen Harris, an eighth-grade student at Pacific Beach Middle School. The crash happened around 9:20 p.m. Saturday at the intersection of Balboa Avenue and Olney Street, according to San Diego police. Police said Harris was riding a Zooz e-bike north on Olney Street when he entered the intersection against a red traffic signal. A 38-year-old man driving a 2023 Tesla Model 3 westbound on Balboa Avenue struck him. The driver remained at the scene and called for emergency medical assistance. Harris…

A 24-year-old Danielson man died after a motorcycle crash Saturday night in Putnam, while a 24-year-old woman who was riding with him remained hospitalized with serious injuries, police said. The crash happened shortly before 9:30 p.m. near the intersection of Grove Street and Tatem Street. Putnam police received multiple 911 calls reporting the crash. When emergency crews arrived, both people were lying in the roadway with serious injuries. Witnesses had already begun providing lifesaving assistance, including CPR, before police and other first responders reached the scene. The male rider was taken to Day Kimball Hospital, where he later died from…

Marietta police located the family of a young boy who was found wandering alone along Franklin Gateway on Monday evening, ending a brief search for his relatives. The boy was found around 5:45 p.m. near Franklin Gateway and Twin Brooks Drive, according to police. Investigators estimated that he was between 2 and 3 years old. When officers found him, the child was not able or willing to communicate with first responders, making it difficult for authorities to immediately determine who he was or where he lived. Police initially asked anyone who recognized the child or knew his family to contact…

A MARTA bus driver is facing charges after police said he appeared to fall asleep while driving before the bus left the roadway and crashed into a tree in Dunwoody, injuring three people. The crash happened Monday morning, Sept. 7, on North Shallowford Road in the Dunwoody area of DeKalb County. Two passengers were aboard the bus along with the driver when it left the road and struck a tree. Newly released video from inside the bus shows the driver taking his hands off the steering wheel and lowering his head several times. The bus then continues across lanes and…

Two Liberty High School students were killed and two other people were injured in a late-night crash near the Brentwood-Antioch area early Sunday, leaving the school community mourning the loss of two student-athletes. The crash was reported at about 12:11 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 13, near Deer Valley Road and Balfour Road. Antioch police said officers arrived about 10 minutes later and found a white BMW and a silver Infiniti involved in the collision. Two people inside the Infiniti died at the scene. A third person traveling in the Infiniti was taken to a local hospital, while the BMW driver was…

A 12-year-old student fired a gun from a school bus Monday afternoon after finding the weapon inside an unattended bag, sending a bullet into a bus window outside Minnie Miñoso Academy on Chicago’s South Side. The incident happened shortly before 2:30 p.m. in the 3500 block of South Wallace Street as students were being dismissed from the Bridgeport-area school. Chicago police said the boy found the unattended bag on the bus and took the firearm from it. He then fired one round, striking and shattering a window. The school’s assistant principal said the student has disabilities and identified the adult…

An 8-year-old boy and two other people were critically injured Monday morning after a house fire in Chicago’s Portage Park neighborhood. The fire was reported shortly after 6 a.m. at a two-and-a-half-story home in the 4000 block of North Austin Avenue, between Belle Plaine Avenue and Irving Park Road. Emergency crews responding to the scene described the fire as involving the basement area of the home. Chicago police said an 8-year-old boy, a 17-year-old boy and a 34-year-old man were taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood. All three were in critical condition with burns and smoke inhalation. Another…

A Labor Day barbecue in Hazel Park turned deadly after an argument over how chicken should be cooked escalated into a stabbing, according to police. Kenneth Erwin Thomas, 60, was at his home in the 1600 block of East Granet Avenue on Sept. 7 when he and his girlfriend were hosting a barbecue. Police said Thomas became involved in an argument with his girlfriend’s brother, Cleo Lawson, 62, of Detroit. The disagreement centered on how the chicken was being prepared, investigators said. The argument eventually became physical, and Lawson allegedly stabbed Thomas. First responders attempted to treat Thomas, but he…

A 73-year-old Murrieta man died after he was struck by a vehicle while jogging Sunday morning near the intersection of Whitewood Road and Meadowlark Lane, according to the Murrieta Police Department. The crash happened at about 6:55 a.m. on Sept. 13, when a vehicle traveling south on Whitewood Road struck the pedestrian after he entered the roadway. Police said the man was believed to be out for a jog at the time. Dense fog was reported in the area when the collision occurred, according to investigators. The driver, a 52-year-old woman, tried to swerve to avoid the pedestrian and stopped…

Four people were injured Monday morning after an approximately 85-foot drilling rig collapsed at a construction site in Miami’s Brickell neighborhood, striking several vehicles and trapping two workers inside a crushed construction container. The collapse happened shortly after 8 a.m. near Brickell Bay Drive and Southeast 12th Street, where emergency crews were called to a chaotic scene involving the fallen equipment, a vehicle fire and workers trapped in the wreckage. Miami Fire-Rescue’s technical rescue teams worked to reach the two trapped construction workers while other firefighters dealt with a fire that started after the rig landed on a white SUV.…