{"id":55208,"date":"2014-09-24T15:48:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T20:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=55208"},"modified":"2014-09-24T15:48:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T20:48:28","slug":"grand-jury-clears-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=55208","title":{"rendered":"Grand Jury Clears Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ward-stewart2b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-52090\" alt=\"ward stewart2b\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ward-stewart2b-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ward-stewart2b-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ward-stewart2b-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ward-stewart2b.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. (AP) &#8211; A grand jury in New York State has decided not to bring criminal charges against Tony Stewart in the August death of a driver at a sprint car race in upstate New York.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ontario County District Attorney Michael Tantillo said the victim, Kevin Ward Jr., was under the influence of marijuana the night of the accident and it was enough to impair judgment.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ward walked on the track during the race and approached Stewart&#8217;s car after the two collided.\u00a0 He was struck and killed.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tantillo says two videos of the accident examined by investigators showed &#8220;no aberrational driving by Tony Stewart.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. (AP) &#8211; A grand jury in New York State has decided not to bring criminal charges against Tony Stewart in the August death of a driver at a sprint car race in upstate New York. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ontario County District Attorney Michael Tantillo said the victim, Kevin Ward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":52079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55211,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55208\/revisions\/55211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}