Woman vanishes after crash that killed husband

Illinois Man Dies in Crash; Wife Leaves Car, Vanishes
© Getty Images Authorities survey the crash site for clues in the disappearance of Tayna Shannon in rural Illinois. An Illinois woman walked away from a car crash that killed her husband, authorities believe, but they have found no trace of her other than footprints in the snow leading to a road. A search was in its third day Tuesday for Tanya Shannon, 40, of Ransom, Illinois, according to the LaSalle County, Illinois, Sheriff's Office. Ground operations began at 9 a.m. with air operati...

Clues in Ill. mom's disappearance include slipper
In this undated family photo provided Dec. 7, 2010 by Corinne Johnson, is... RANSOM, Ill. (AP) - The clues surrounding Tanya Shannon sound like the makings of a fairytale: a red dress, a lone slipper, footprints in the snow. For friends and relatives of the northern Illinois mother of four, who vanished after a weekend car crash killed her husband, they're the makings of a nightmare. Shannon was last seen leaving a friend's holiday party in her red dress and was believed to be riding with her h...

Four students killed in Conn. car crash
Published: Dec. 8, 2010 at 4:37 PM GRISWOLD, Conn., Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Grief counselors were set to be at a Connecticut High School Wednesday after four Students were killed in a one-car crash Tuesday, school officials said. Superintendent of Schools Paul Freeman said Students at Griswold High School were very quiet Wednesday morning and are deeply affected by the incident, The Hartford Courant reported. Police have identified the Students who died as John Clapper, 16, Sativa Cornell, 16, Steven Sz...

Husband of woman missing after crash died of broken neck
A man who died in a crash in rural LaSalle County -- and whose wife apparently walked away and remains missing -- suffered a broken neck, according to preliminary Autopsy results released today. Dale Shannon, 41, of tiny Ransom, about 50 miles southwest of Joliet, was discovered at 1:45 a.m. Sunday behind the wheel of his car on the Grand Ridge Mazon Blacktop between East 26th and East 27th roads in Brookfield Township. The car had spun out and hit a telephone poll about 20 feet off the road. ...

LaSalle County, Illinois mystery: Where is crash survivor?
© Unknown LaSalle County Sheriff's police have a mystery: Where is the woman who they believe was riding with a man killed in a one-car auto accident early Sunday? Downstate authorities are looking for the dead man's wife, who they believe survived the crash. The couple was returning from a holiday party when the accident happened about 6 miles from their home in Ransom, Ill. The LaSalle County Sheriff's office said it was searching for Tanya M. Shannon, 40. She is described as 5-foot-2...

Sister Stella Neill killed in car crash
Sister Stella Neill, a longtime pillar of Des Moines’ fight to provide affordable housing to poor families, was killed Tuesday night in a car crash. Neill, 68, was driving her car west on Interstate Highway 80 near Walnut at about 6:20 p.m. when she went onto the Right Shoulder, overcorrected and then rolled in the north ditch, according to the Iowa State Patrol. She was not wearing a seatbelt. Neill was the founder of Anawim Housing, a group she stepped down from in 2009 after 22 years. She w...

Jeep driver killed in two-car crash in Cedar County
Durant, Ia. - A two-car crash in Cedar County left one person dead Sunday. A Jeep Grand Cherokee did not stop at a stop sign at Yankee Avenue and 310th Street about 12:50 p.m., the Iowa State Patrol said. While the Jeep was in the intersection, a Ford F-250 pickup truck driven by Devin Warner, 41, of Bennett hit the Jeep’s driver’s side door, killing the driver. ...

4 teens killed and 1 injured in Conn. car crash
GRISWOLD, Conn. — The superintendent of schools in Griswold says the High School is in shock on the first day of classes after four Students were killed in a car crash. Paul Freeman said Wednesday that Griswold High School is "very quiet" as Students and faculty alike come to grips with what he calls a "tremendous loss." Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the Tuesday crash about 40 miles southeast of Hartford. State Police say three Victims were pronounced dead at th...

Brazil Soccer Player Jailed, Killed Woman Refusing Abortion
Bruno Fernandes das Dores de Souza, the former captain and goal-keeper of the very popular Rio de Janeiro Soccer team Flamengo, has been jailed for his alleged role in an Abortion-murder. Brazilian Police have charged one of the country’s biggest Soccer stars with planning the October 2009 Murder of 25-year-old Student Eliza Samudio, his pregnant girlfriend who refused an abortion. Married with Children, Bruno reportedly had an affair with Samudio and is believed to have gotten her pregnan...

16-Year-Old Driving In Crash That Killed Four Teens
GRISWOLD, CT (AP / WCBS 880) - A 16-year-old boy was behind the wheel in a one-car accident that killed him and three other teenagers in eastern Connecticut, Police said Wednesday. Authorities were investigating what caused John Clapper to lose control of the car and strike a tree Tuesday afternoon in Griswold, a rural town 40 miles southeast of Hartford where the deaths sent shock waves through the High School. The only surviving passenger is 16-year-old Joel Gallup, who was sitting in the...

NY woman gets prison for fatal drug-fueled crash
A New York woman will spend up to 12 years in Prison after admitting she was high on drugs when she struck and killed an 11-year-old girl crossing a Long Island street. Maureen Lambert, of Stony Brook, received the 4-to-12-year sentence on Wednesday. The 21-year-old pleaded guilty in October to charges including Manslaughter, leaving the scene of an accident and driving while impaired by drugs. Courtney Sipes was killed while crossing a street in Smithtown on Nov. 24, 2009. Prosecutors say Lambe...

M.E.: Woman found frozen in ditch drowned
A woman whose frozen body was found in a water-filled ditch Sunday in Palos Township drowned, a Cook County Medical Examiner's Office spokeswoman said. The Cook County Sheriff's Police are waiting for Toxicology tests to determine if the woman, Paula Spika, 50, of Palos Park, had been drinking before she died. Read more in TribLocal. ...

Four Teens Killed in Conn. Crash
Four Connecticut High School Students were killed in a single-car crash just a few miles from their school on Tuesday afternoon, police said. The driver lost control of the car and struck a tree on Route 201, near Route 138, in Griswold, around 4:30 p.m., police said. Three of the Victims, all Students at Griswold High School, were pronounced dead at the scene, according to State Police. Two more were taken to Backus Hospital in Norwich, but one of the victims died in the Emergency Room, police ...

Sentencing Day For L.I. Woman In Heroine Car Crash
NEW YORK (CBS 2) - A Long Island woman convicted of hitting and killing an 11-year-old while driving high on Heroin will learn her punishment Wednesday. Maureen Lambert faces up to 12 years in Prison in the death of Courtney Sipes. In October, Lambert plead guilty to running down Sipes on a Smithtown Street. The young girl was on her way to music class with her mother and brother when she was killed. Lambert admitted she used Heroin an hour before the accident last November....

Sentencing Day For L.I. Woman In Heroin Car Crash
NEW YORK (CBS 2) - A Stony Brook woman convicted of hitting and killing an 11-year-old while driving high on Heroin will learn her punishment Wednesday. Maureen Lambert faces up to 12 years in Prison in the death of Courtney Sipes. In October, Lambert plead guilty to running down Sipes on a Smithtown street. The young girl was on her way to music class with her mother and brother when she was killed. Lambert admitted she used Heroin an hour before the accident last November. Prosecutors sa...

Sentencing Day For L.I. Woman In Heroin Car Crash
NEW YORK (CBS 2) - A Stony Brook woman convicted of hitting and killing an 11-year-old while driving high on Heroin will learn her punishment Wednesday. Maureen Lambert faces up to 12 years in Prison in the death of Courtney Sipes. In October, Lambert plead guilty to running down Sipes on a Smithtown street. The young girl was on her way to music class with her mother and brother when she was killed. Lambert admitted she used Heroin an hour before the accident last November. Prosecutors sa...

Ronni Chasen Murder: Gun Recovered From Suicide Appears To Match One That Killed Publicist
Los Angeles Times: The gun recovered from a man who commited Suicide at a Hollywood apartment appears to be the same one that killed Veteran Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen, according to a Law Enforcement source. The Beverly Hills Police Department has called 3 p.m. news conference to discuss the case, though no details were provided. Harold Smith took his own life last week when Beverly Hills police came to his hotel to talk to him about the Chasen slaying. Police had been tippe...

Chicago Tribune: Taylorvilles Not Ready
[The following is a paid advertisement.] November 29, 2010 Dirty and dangerous, coal has a hard time making friends. The proposal for a Taylorville Energy Center in central Illinois isn’t helping. You might think the Taylorville plan would be winning popularity contests all around the state: This wouldn’t be a typical coal plant, of the sort that provides roughly half of America’s electricity today. This would be a “clean” operation, using cutting-edge technology ...

Dad of missing Ala. kids charged with murder
This Dec. 1, 2010 photo released by the Louisville Metropolitan Dept. of... VANCLEAVE, Miss. (AP) - An Alabama man who told authorities he dumped his two dead Children in the woods, then covered them with twigs, was charged Wednesday with two counts of Murder after investigators found remains believed to be his 3-year-old son, Police said. Mobile Police Officer Chris Levy said the discovery of a boy's bones about 50 feet off a highway in rural Mississippi gave authorities enough evidence to fil...

Officials suspend search for northern Illinois mom
Authorities in northern Illinois have suspended their search for a 40-year-old mother of four who disappeared after a weekend car crash that killed her husband. Tanya Shannon was last seen leaving a friend's holiday party. The deputy who discovered the car wreck in LaSalle County early Sunday found Shannon's 41-year-old husband, Dale, dead behind the wheel and footprints leading away from the car. But for a slipper found near the vehicle, no sign of Shannon has been seen since, despite the effor...

Dozens look for Ill. mom missing since fatal crash
In this undated family photo provided Dec. 7, 2010 by Corinne Johnson, is... RANSOM, Ill. (AP) - Dozens of searchers braved frigid temperatures on Tuesday to search a remote area in northern Illinois for a 40-year-old mother of four who has been missing since a weekend car crash that killed her husband. Authorities say Tanya Shannon, of Ransom, may be dead and her body may be buried in the snow, but that they're not ruling out that she may be alive. "It's just one of those weird situations," s...

Father, son convicted in US bank bombing
A father and son who authorities say loved their guns and hated President Barack Obama have been convicted of planting a bank bomb that killed two Police Officers and maimed a third in 2008. A Circuit Court jury deliberated for less than a day before finding Bruce Turnidge and his son, Joshua Turnidge, guilty on Wednesday on 18 counts that included aggravated Murder, attempted aggravated murder and assault charges. Both stood silently as the verdicts were read. The convictions send the trial int...

US steps up hunt for crash woman
Investigators have found very few clues after three days of searching for a woman in Illinois who vanished after a car crash that killed her husband. Footsteps in the snow leading away from the crash site, a slipper and her description remain as the only clues. Tanya Shannon, a 40-year-old mother of four, was last seen on Sunday wearing a red dress and driving home from a holiday party with her husband. "It's just one of those weird situations," said Sergeant Jeff Whalen. Police ...

Dog Poop-gate: Woman Alleges Beating By NYPD
Anna Stanczyk, 49, claims she was beaten up by NYPD officers following a dispute over dog excrement. (Photo: CBS 2) NEW YORK (CBS 2) — A Queens woman who said she was brutalized by a pair of Police Officers and is now taking the NYPD to court. She said she was roughed up during a clash with Police because the officers thought she failed to clean up after her dog. Anna Stanczyk said showing CBS 2’s Dave Carlin her bruises is the easy part. It’s talking about how she got them tha...

OAP in police sandwich poisoning gets suspended sentence
A Pensioner whose sandwiches poisoned 47 Police Officers has been given a suspended jail sentence and ordered to obey a one-month night-time Curfew. Food Safety officials said 70-year-old Muriel Morris received a four-month jail term, suspended for a year, and was ordered to pay £16,482.70p in costs. Birmingham City Council, which prosecuted Morris for four breaches of food hygiene law, launched an investigation into the poisoning outbreak after nine officers were taken to Hospital during ...