Nation Briefs - Chippewa Herald
— A woman and her two young sons were among five people killed in a fiery chain-reaction crash after a semitrailer hauling a tanker filled with cooking oil slammed into vehicles slowed near a northwestern Indiana construction zone, state police... The crash late Thursday on Interstate 65 near Lafayette killed 47-year-old Jill Buck of Greenwood, Ind. , and her sons, 8-year-old A. J. and 10-year-old Branson, police said. Riley said the 34-year-old Pankiv, who also was killed, failed to slow as he approached the construction zone about 60 miles northwest of Indianapolis and first rear-ended a car driven by 41-year-old Mikhail Stepanov of Lafayette. The impact killed Stepanov and injured a 31-year-old woman who was his passenger. Woman gets life after her teen hit man killed wrong target -- COLUMBIA, S. C. — A South Carolina woman was sentenced to life in prison Thursday, more than two years after prosecutors say she hired a teen to kill a man, and he killed the wrong man... Authorities have said that Phillips, 41, hired a 17-year-old to kill her estranged husband in March 2013, but the teen killed her husband's brother, 31-year-old Jamil Phillips, by mistake. The teen, who is awaiting trial for murder in Phillips' death, was sentenced to 45 years in prison earlier this year for killing another man in an unrelated case. Source: chippewa.com
