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The three swept items, worth over $5,000, off the shelves into bags before fleeing the store in a gray 2018 Kia Optima, Katris said. Officers spotted the vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed. The Kia ran a red light at Route 60 and Hawthorn Hills Square and officers terminated the chase, Katris said... The Kia left the roadway on the southeast corner of the intersection and drove into a wooden fence. ...The third retail theft suspect, a female, who was the front seat passenger of the Kia, was impaled by a wooden fence post. Officers performed first aid...

The woman, who was visiting the beach from Pennsylvania, was in stable condition Monday, according to Jessica Waters, the spokeswoman. The incident occurred about 3:30 p.m., on the beach near 54th Street in the popular resort town, after an umbrella was apparently uprooted and swept away by a gust of wind. “Witnesses said one gust lifted the umbrella,” Waters said. She said the sharper end of the umbrella shaft, which is used to plant it into the ground, impaled the woman in the chest. It was not clear how deep a wound it caused. Waters said paramedics cut off part...

The Mail says Young was particularly paranoid about enquiries on his wealth. He had stated that the hunt for the money was driving him crazy, and he had even demanded to be confined for treatment under the Mental Health Act. Although Young's friends have claimed that he would have never committed suicide, Scotland Yard is under pressure to open an inquiry after The Telegraph revealed that four of his friends and business associates have also died in mysterious circumstances in the last four years. The group included the exiled oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who was found hanging in his Surrey house...

SANGERVILLE, Maine - Officials say a Dover-Foxcroft woman was in critical condition after being impaled by a tree branch that crashed through her car windshield during a storm. Rory Schmand was driving on Douty Hill Road at about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday when the branch fell through the windshield, striking the 47-year-old woman between the eyes. She was flown to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor for treatment. Investigator Guy Dow of the Piscataquis County Sheriff's Department said a witness told him he was outside cleaning up when he heard a crack and saw the branch crash through the windshield of...

FOREST GROVE, Ore. - A photo released by police shows the predicament an 18-year-old got himself into when he tried to make a run for it and ended up impaled on a wrought iron fence. The incident happened last Thursday when a teenager under arrest for assault tried to flee police as he was about to be transported in a patrol car. The teenager, who has since been identified as Cody Carlson, bolted from the car and tried to vault the fence with his hands cuffed behind his back. Firefighters ended up having to cut out a section of the...

Windshield case attracts spotlightMallard trial will focus national media, legal eye on FW courts again06/18/2003By LAURIE FOX and DAVE LEVINTHAL / The Dallas Morning News FORT WORTH – When it comes to trying highly publicized court cases, Tarrant County jurors get plenty of practice. Sensational murder defendants such as Cullen Davis, Diane Zamora and Robert Neville have stood trial in Fort Worth, greeted by a crush of TV cameras and curious courtroom spectators. Legal observers expect the glare of national media – and the challenges that come with it – to return this week as the "windshield case" begins in...