CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – Cleveland Police arrested a 21-year-old woman who allegedly hit two pedestrians with her car, leaving one dead and another injured.

According to a release from the Cleveland Police, at around 6:53 p.m. on Wednesday, officers received a call for a crash on Eddy Road.

When officers arrived, they learned two pedestrians were crossing the street in the crosswalk when a car driving southbound struck them.

The car then fled the scene, police said.

A 37-year-old woman was taken to the hospital, where she was later pronounced deceased by hospital staff.

The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner identified the 37-year-old woman as Chiquitta D. Brown of Cleveland.

A 42-year-old woman was taken to the hospital with serious, but not life-threatening injuries, police said.

Using the Real-Time Crime Center, officers located the suspect vehicle and driver shortly thereafter.

The driver, a 21-year-old woman, was arrested, and the car was towed for processing.

The Cleveland Police’s Accident Investigation Unit is investigating the crash.

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As America turns 250 years old in 2026, CBS News Chicago is looking back at two presidents who called Illinois home.

Nearly 150 years separated the presidencies of Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama, who both launched political careers Illinois.

In their times in office, they faced very different challenges, but the nation’s 44th president drew inspiration from the 16th president.

On a frigid February morning in 2007, then a U.S. Senator, Obama announced he was running for president. The symbolism of where he delivered the speech was unmistakable – at the Old State Capitol building in Springfield.

At the same building in 1858, Lincoln gave one of the most famous speeches in American history.

“I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free,” Lincoln told the crowd.

“The Lincoln that Obama is linking himself to in that moment in announcing his candidacy is the Lincoln who gave the ‘House Divided’ speech,” said University of Chicago professor Jane Dailey. “And that’s the Lincoln Obama, I think, was channeling in that moment as he talks about visions of community and democracy.”

Lincoln and Obama will be forever linked. Both lawyers from Illinois. Both served in the Illinois legislature before they were elected to Congress and later the White House. The Great Emancipator and the nation’s first Black president.

“You ask me what they have in common, and I think they both have a very strong belief in regular people; the capacity of Americans to be moral people, not every minute of every day, to take a stand on the right side of things if given the opportunity,” Dailey said.

Both Lincoln and Obama came to Illinois from other places. Lincoln was born in Kentucky and moved to Indiana at age 7 before his family came to Illinois when he was 21. Obama was born in Hawaii and lived in Seattle, Indonesia, Los Angeles, and New York before moving to Chicago in 1985.

Where Obama is a product of Ivy League schools, Lincoln was largely self-taught.

“He just read voraciously all the time. He didn’t boast about that, but someone asked him once, ‘Who did you study law with?’ and he said ‘Nobody. I read,” Dailey said.

Poverty drove Lincoln from Kentucky to Indiana then to Illinois. Obama, inspired by the city’s first Black mayor, Harold Washington, moved to Chicago to become a community organizer.

“He ends up serving the state of Illinois. I’m not sure he would have imagined that. When he came to Chicago, I think he was coming specifically to Chicago to do the kind of organizing and activism that he wanted to do in the tradition of people who had gone before him,” Dailey said.

When Obama took the presidential oath of office on Jan. 20, 2009, he placed his hand on Lincoln’s bible. In his second term in 2013, Obama hand wrote an essay submitted to the Lincoln Presidential Library to mark the 150th anniversary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.

“In the evening, when Michelle and the girls have gone to bed, I sometimes walk down the hall to a room Abraham Lincoln used as his office.  It contains an original copy of the Gettysburg address, written in Lincoln’s own hand,” Obama wrote. “I linger on these few words that have helped define our American experiment: ‘A new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.’”

“One of the things that I think he was signaling – and Lincoln himself signaled this all the time – was the open possibility of the future. Obama says constantly, we want to have a more perfect union. We’re never going to get there, we’re never going to have a perfect union, but if we all work really hard, we might have a more perfect union,” Dailey said.

In writing about Lincoln, Obama went on to say “Lincoln’s words give us confidence that whatever trials await us, this nation and the freedom we cherish can, and shall, prevail.”

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Indiana Horse Racing Commission has positioned Harrah’s Hoosier Park in Anderson to host the Hambletonian Stakes as soon as 2027 for a three-year commitment.

Touted as one of the most prestigious events in global harness racing, the Hambletonian has been run in New Jersey’s Meadowlands Racetrack for 43 consecutive years. The Hambletonian Society for at least a few months has been considering a venue change, the Indiana commission said in a news release issued Thursday, adding that the group has not yet announced a timeline for a selection.

The plans call for a partnership between the Indiana Horse Racing Commission, the Indiana Standardbred Association, and Hoosier Park operator Caesars Entertainment.

Hoosier Park, a parimutuel racetrack that includes slot machines, opened in June 2008, after the Indiana legislature agreed to allow such facilities a year earlier. Tom Reeg, the CEO of Caesars Entertainment, said in the release that Caesars is prepared to invest in the facility to help deliver a world-class event.

The race is for 3-year-old Standardbred fillies competing at a trot. From the 2025 purse of $1 million, $500,000 went to the winner of the final. The Aug. 2 event drew 17,969 people, up about 1,200 people from a year earlier, online reports show. Wagering for the 2025 race totaled $7.64 million in North America.

From a field of more than 20 horses, Nordic Catcher S, driven and trained by Åke Svanstedt, won the 100th edition of the race by 1-1/4 lengths.

The race generally airs on a nationally available broadcast.

The Hambletonian Stakes race, which began in 1926 in Syracuse, New York, spent its first five decades in Lexington, Kentucky; Goshen, New York; and the Illinois State Fair in Du Quoin, Illinois.