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2 officers, driver injured after crashing into building, police say
Two Ohio police officers and another driver were injured after crashing into each other and then into a building Wednesday night. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] The crash happened around 7:45 p.m. in Cleveland, according to CBS affiliate WOIO-TV in Cleveland. TRENDING STORIES: Air India says people on crashed flight included Indians, British, Portuguese and a Canadian 26-year-old man dead after motorcycle hits tree in Warren County Ohio's school bus safety bill passes state house Cleveland Division of Police Public Information Office (PIO) Sgt. Wilfredo Diaz told WOIO that officers were responding to a call when the crash happened. The impact of the crash caused both the cruiser and the other vehicle to hit a nearby building, Diaz said. Medics transported both officers and the other driver to the hospital with minor injuries. The crash remains under investigation. [SIGN UP: WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
14-05-2025
Thumbprint on cigarette carton leads to arrest in 1977 death of young woman
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Nearly half a century after a young California woman was strangled to death, officials say a thumbprint on a carton of cigarettes has led to an arrest. Willie Eugene Sims was arrested in Jefferson, Ohio, in connection with the death of Jeanette Ralston, according to a Friday statement from the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office. Sims, 69, has been charged with murder and was arraigned on Friday in Ashtabula County Court before being sent to California. Ralston was found dead in the back seat of her Volkswagen Beetle on Feb. 1, 1977, in San Jose, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office. Her body was found in the carport area of an apartment complex near the bar where friends say she was last seen. She had been strangled with a long-sleeve dress shirt, and evidence appeared to show she was sexually assaulted, according to prosecutors. Her car showed signs of having been unsuccessfully set on fire. Her friends said at the time that they saw her leave the bar with an unknown man the evening before, saying she would be back in 10 minutes, but she never returned. Police interviewed the friends and other witnesses and created a suspect sketch. But the investigation went cold. A thumbprint found on Ralston's cigarette carton in her car was found to match Sims last fall after law enforcement had asked to run the print through the FBI's updated system, prosecutors said. Earlier this year, officials from the District Attorney's office and San Jose police went to Ohio to collect DNA from Sims. Prosecutors say it matched the DNA found on Ralston's fingernails and the shirt used to strangle her. 'Every day, forensic science grows better, and every day criminals are closer to being caught," District Attorney Jeff Rosen said in a statement. "Cases may grow old and be forgotten by the public. We don't forget and we don't give up.' William Weigel, homicide team supervisor for the Santa Clara county public defender's office, confirmed Monday that Lara Wallman had been assigned the case. He said their office can't comment on the evidence yet because they haven't seen it but cautioned the public from jumping to conclusions. 'It is kind of important that we let the system play itself out and allow our side to conduct our own independent review and investigation of the case before we rush to judgment as it were,' he said. Back in 1977, Sims was an army private assigned to a facility about 68 miles (109 kilometers) south of San Jose, prosecutors said. The year after Ralston's death, a jury in a separate case convicted Sims of an assault to commit murder in Monterey County and sentenced him to four years in prison, court records show. Ralston's son, Allen Ralston, was 6 when she died. He told WOIO-TV that he is grateful and relieved an arrest was finally made. "I'm just glad that somebody cared," he said about the case.
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05-04-2025
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Police shoot stolen license plate suspect after being shot at before pursuit started
After police pulled over an Ohio man for a stolen license plate, he shot at them, prompting them to return fire. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] An officer with the Wooster Police Department initiated a traffic stop on Geyers Chapel Road just South of Back Orrville Rd for a vehicle with a stolen license plate, CBS affiliate WOIO-TV reported. TRENDING STORIES: At least 1 injured after shooting in Dayton 3 people, including 2 juveniles injured after shooting in Xenia 18-year-old high school student killed in downtown Dayton shooting The suspect got out of his vehicle and fired several found at the officer, according to police. The officer returned fire, and the suspect got back into his vehicle and fled from the scene. Wooster police did not pursue the suspect due to their cruiser being damaged by gunfire, WOIO-TV reported. Later, the Wayne County Sheriff's Department and the Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP) located the vehicle and initiated a pursuit. During the pursuit, the suspect fired several rounds at the officers from his vehicle, according to police. Police told WOIO-TV that officers did not fire any rounds during the pursuit. OSHP, along with the Dalton Police Department, collided with the suspect vehicle on Cleveland Road in the city of Wooster. The suspect was then taken into custody was transported to Wooster Community Hospital before being flown to Akron General Hospital, WOIO-TV reported. He sustained life-threatening injuries from an apparent gunshot wound. No officers were injured during the shooting or the pursuit. The shooting is under investigation by Ohio's Bureau of Criminal Investigation. [SIGN UP: WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
