Dane Wright News Today

Healer. Activist. Mother. Wife. Born Sept. 19, 1951, in Saskatoon; died April 27, 2023, in Saskatoon, of septic shock; aged 71

THE Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) has granted scholarships to three national coaches as they seek overseas training for personal development. Surfing Coach Icah Wilmot, taekwando Coach Kenroy...

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach to visit Jamaica in March

The crash was investigated by Ocala Police Sgt. Dan E. Wright. He interviewed Edwards, 41, of Ocala, who reported that he was driving an older model Dodge Caravan on the afternoon of Nov. 12. He stopped at a store and he and his passenger, Derrick Glen Brown, 57, also of Ocala, went inside and purchased two beers. Edwards said they did not open the beers, and police confirmed that. He said he was driving north on Northwest First Avenue and his cellphone was on his lap. The man said the phone s...

Prosecutors at the State Attorneys Office were given a copy of Wrights report. They felt Hughes had not committed a crime and therefore declined to file any charges. Just after 9 a.m. on Nov. 24, the 58-year-old Ocala woman was driving an older model Nissan Titan truck southbound on Northeast Eighth Avenue and stopped at the light at Silver Springs Boulevard. A man, later identified as Ray Leverne Kessinger, 37, of Dunnellon, was riding a Triumph Speed Triple motorcycle westbound on the boulev...

Driver not at fault in Ocala crash that killed pedestrian Sgt. Dan E. Wright of the Ocala Police Department noted in his conclusion that the victim had violated two state statutes: not heeding a traffic light and crossing into the path of a vehicle in a way that the driver had no time to stop. The State Attorneys Office reviewed the report and agreed that the driver should not be charged for the Nov. 6 crash. According to Wrights report, an older model Chevy Tahoe was traveling along South...

Truck driver wont be charged in fatal Ocala crash involving motorcycle An Ocala man killed in a two-vehicle crash in downtown Ocala a few months ago was impaired, and law enforcement officials have not charged the other driver.  A report detailing the events surrounding the Oct. 12 crash states the victim had a blood alcohol level of 0.087. The states legal limit is 0.08. A toxicology report also showed the victim was under the influence of marijuana, and officers said the rider was speeding...