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ORANGE -- Police are investigating an accident Sunday evening that claimed the life of a 26-year-old Ansonia man and left two other Ansonia residents injured. Police said Antonio Izzo, of 124 Prindle Ave., died in the one-car accident, which occurred about 7:15 p.m. on Derby-Milford Road near Turkey Hill Road. The other occupants of the vehicle, Stephen Wardle, of 73 Highland Ave., and Scott Brooks, of 3 Rutland St., were transported to area hospitals. Wardle was treated and released, while Brooks remained hospitalized Monday with non-life threatening injuries, authorities said.
The vehicle had been traveling north on Derby-Milford Road, went out of control and rolled over. Izzo was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said they are not certain who was driving.
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State police are investigating a fatal, one-vehicle accident that happened just after midnight in Butler County.
Bradley G. Wardle, 47, of Butler was traveling north on Sunset Drive in Center when his vehicle left the road and struck a utility pole, then damaged about 100 feet of wooden fence bordering a golf course, police say.
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BLOOMINGTON - The McLean County Sheriff's Department is investigating a possible train-pedestrian accident which occurred late Friday.
Police were called to the intersection of Miller and Pancake streets at about 10:00 p.m. Officials with the McLean County Sheriff's Department said further details would be released today.
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PRINCE GEORGE -- County police are still investigating an accident that occurred Tuesday afternoon in front of Beazley Elementary School on Courthouse Road.
Police Capt. Eric Young said a 2000 Ford sports utility vehicle was stopped behind a logging truck on Courthouse Road when a second logging truck struck the Ford from behind.
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ORNEVILLE - The Piscataquis County Sheriff's Department is investigating a fatal vehicle accident that occurred Friday night on Lyford Road.
Few details were available late Friday. A Sheriff's Department dispatcher said a single vehicle was involved in a rollover accident at about 8 p.m. and that at least one person was dead.
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COVINA - A former police records supervisor was arrested Thursday on suspicion of stealing $342,000 in city funds that came from parking meters, parking fines and impound fees.
Louise Vance-Wasilchin, also known as Mary Louise Wasilchin, 58, was arrested in her Upland home after a seven-month investigation that started when authorities were tipped off by finding 1,000 quarters in her car while investigating an accident.
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By Adrielle Harvey
THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL
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CHESTER - Penobscot County District Attorney R. Christopher Almy is awaiting the Maine Warden Service's completion of its investigation of what officials have called an accidental shooting that partially blinded a turkey hunter in Chester on May 11.
Almy indicated it is not unusual for the investigation to still be under way.
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Mechanics at the Sugarloaf Mountain Resort were trying to realign a chairlift cable Tuesday when it derailed and dropped five chairs carrying skiers into the snow 25 to 30 feet below, resort officials said Wednesday.
The announcement came as state inspectors ended their first full day investigating the accident, which sent eight people to hospitals and stranded dozens of skiers on the Spillway East lift for as long as an hour and 44 minutes.
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BRAZIL - Canadian National Railway and Tallahatchie County authorities are investigating an accident in which three people died when a freight train collided with a truck.
Canadian National spokesman Patrick Waldron said the collision occurred at about 6:40 p.m. Tuesday at a crossing near the Brazil community in north Tallahatchie County in the Mississippi Delta.