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Shortly before 2 p.m. on March 18, 2026, troopers responded to a New York Thruway Authority report of overpass strikes caused by a commercial truck hauling an over-height excavator on a flatbed trailer while driving west between Exits 30 and 36. Troopers located the suspect vehicle and performed a traffic stop on the 2019 Freightliner in the town of Salina. The truck driver was identified as Oleksander Tarakanovskyi, 38, of North Carolina. NYSP investigators determined that the over-height load had struck more than a dozen overpasses along a sixty mile stretch of the New York State Thruway. Troopers say that...

A South Carolina man accused of drunk driving and stealing a patrol car vowed to take his case to President Donald Trump during a fiery spat at his bond hearing. William Waters allegedly stole the patrol car from the QuikTrip gas station in Spartanburg County on Saturday night while suffering from an apparent mental health crisis. Waters, 34, appeared before a judge on Monday, facing charges of grand larceny, failure to stop for blue lights and driving while under the influence. As the judge read the charges out, the suspect repeatedly interrupted, accused the judge of lying and refused to...