Mar. 15, 2025
Greensboro Police Department Officer Michael Horan.Photo:Greensboro Police Department
Greensboro Police Department
An officer in North Carolina was shot to death while in the line of duty two days before Christmas.
Greensboro Police Department Officer Michael Horan died while responding to a call about a “man with a firearm” inside Food Lion, a popular supermarket chain, on the morning of Monday, Dec. 23, said Assistant Chief MJ Harris during an afternoonpress conference.
Mar. 15, 2025
Connor Stephanoff.Photo:Officer Craig/TikTok
Officer Craig/TikTok
A local pizza delivery driver was filled with gratitude for the strangers who came together to raise thousands for him after he went the extra mile for his job, but didn’t have much to show for it.
Connor Stephanoff, an employee at Rock Star Pizza in Ind., recently went viral on social media after a video posted on TikTok showed himmaking deliveries through the mounds of snow.
Mar. 15, 2025
An Ohio bus driver has been hailed a hero for helping 15 students to escape after the school bus they were traveling on burst into flames.
Bus 21 had been at the corner of Cambridge and Northampton in Cleveland Heights when a fire broke out behind one of the rear wheels on the morning of Thursday, Feb. 27, the Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School District said in anews release.
The driver — who was taking the students to Monticello Middle School - reacted “quickly” to evacuate the students “off the bus and to safety,” according to astatementfrom the Cleveland Heights Fire Department on Facebook.
Mar. 15, 2025
Joshua Taylor.Photo:Brucker-Kishler Funeral Home
Brucker-Kishler Funeral Home
Memorial services are set to take place this week for a sophomore Otterbein University wrestler who died from injuries he suffered in a car crash earlier this month.Joshua Taylor died on Thursday, Jan. 2, according toan obituarypublished online. He was 19 years old.The crash occurred in Licking County, Ohio, according toWBNSandThe Columbus Dispatch. Taylor’s coach, Brent Rastetter, told WBNS that Taylor was “on his way to work” at the time of the crash.
Mar. 15, 2025
Michael Mayor.Photo:Miami County Sheriff’s Office
Miami County Sheriff’s Office
An Ohio man allegedly slammed a 15-month-old girl on the floor after she wouldn’t stop crying, fracturing her skull. Two weeks later, she died of her injuries.
As the last person with the toddler, Mayor was arrested and charged. He later admitted to police that he had injured the child when she wouldn’t stop crying while he was attempting to get her to nap, according to WHIO.