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• Indiana Officer Killed By Hit-And-Run Driver

  A Greenfield police officer was killed early Thursday morning when he was struck by a hit-and-run driver while riding his bicycle on U.S. 40. The crash happened at about 12:30 a.m. a few miles west of Knightstown, police said.

• Washington Tow Truck Driver Killed in Hit and Run

  A tow-truck driver was struck and killed on the entrance ramp from Spokane Street to southbound Interstate 5 early Friday while he was working on a vehicle from an earlier collision. The 51-year-old driver, William Anthony "Tony" Padilla, working for GT Towing in Seattle, was kneeling down at the left front side of the disabled vehicle where the ramp meets the freeway when a southbound car lost control in the HOV lane.

• Washington Tow Truck Driver Killed In Hit-And-Run, Suspects Caught

  A tow truck driver who was assisting a disabled vehicle on Interstate 5 at Spokane Street was struck and killed in a hit-and-run early Friday morning, the Washington State Patrol said.

• Runaway Bus Kills Ohio EMS Worker

  One woman, Sherry Pettit, died and three other people suffered injuries from a runaway Metro Bus at a Bond Hill High School in Cinncinati.

• Michigan Auxiliary Police Officer Struck and Killed on I-94

  Lt. Dan Kromer, 54, an auxiliary officer in Taylor for about 20 years, had pulled over onto the shoulder of westbound I-94 at Monroe just before 9 p.m. Tuesday to help a driver with engine trouble when he was struck by a passing vehicle.