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Basketball player likely died from chewing gum in sleep
A Pennsylvania university student and basketball player likely inhaled chewing gum into her lungs while asleep before being found dead in her dormitory over the weekend. The Washington County coroner's office said 21-year-old Shanice Clark of Toronto was found unresponsive at about 3 a.m. Sunday at California University of Pennsylvania. University officials said they were "deeply saddened" by the death of the 6-foot senior forward, who was...
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Firefighters extinguishing a car fire goes wrong
The fire fighters trying to put out a car fire, but the car starts rolling and it's running down a steep hill. This happened in Notodden in Norway in 2012.
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One killed, 2 injured on set of Martin Scorsese's movie 'Silence'
A structure on the Taiwan set of an upcoming Martin Scorsese movie collapsed this week, killing a studio construction worker and injuring two more, Taipei police said. The workers were repairing a building used for scenery when it collapsed Thursday, police spokesman Chen Chung-Ren said. Two men were hospitalized, one in serious condition. Scorsese's new feature, "Silence," tells the story of two Jesuit priests in 17th century Japan...
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American Horror Story's Ben Woolf Struck by Car Mirror and in Critical Condition
Ben Woolf, who played Meep on American Horror Story: Freak Show, was struck in the head by a car mirror and is now in critical condition, TMZ reports. Everything you've missed on American Horror Story so far. The 4'4" actor was crossing a street in Hollywood Thursday night when a passing SUV struck Woolf in the head. The actor was taken to the hospital where he remains in intensive care.
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68 dead in Bangladesh ferry accident
At least 68 people died after a passenger ferry capsized in Bangladesh, and the death toll could rise, officials said. The double-decker ferry sank after it was hit by a cargo vessel around midday Sunday, police and witnesses said. Passengers on the ferry's lower deck may have been trapped.
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Seven people injured in ski lift accident at Maine’s Sugarloaf Mountain
A packed ski lift abruptly halted and rolled backward at Maine’s Sugarloaf Mountain on Saturday morning, leaving seven adults injured — four of them hospitalized — and more than 200 skiers and snowboarders dangling for up to an hour and a half, resort officials said.
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Driver ignores mortally injured woman by roadside... and later discovers she’s his mother
A driver who ignored an injured elderly woman by the roadside later found out that the victim was his own mother, the Anhui Business Daily reported. The man from Nanling county in Wuhu city was on his way to visit his mother early one morning last week when he spotted the badly hurt old woman next to the road. “My car does not have a dashboard recorder, so I didn’t stop,” he was quoted as saying.
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Watch the moment a new Routemaster bus careered out of control on the streets of London
This is the terrifying moment a new Routemaster bus crashes after accelerating out of control through London’s streets.
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Cop in wrong-way fatal crash had blood-alcohol level 3 times legal limit, report says
The Linden cop who drove the wrong way on a Staten Island highway, crashing and killing two passengers, had a blood alcohol level three times the legal limit, according to an NBC report. The report says Pedro Abad, 27, had a BAC of .24 percent; the legal limit is .08. Abad was the driver in the March 20 wrong-way crash that killed a fellow officer and a passenger - and critically injured Abad and another officer - when he struck a...
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D.A. Charges Bumble Bee Tuna After Worker Baked to Death in Industrial Oven
On Oct. 11, 2012, Bumble Bee Foods worker Jose Melena entered an industrial oven at the company's Santa Fe Springs plant in order to load it with racks of tuna cans. The oven was used to sterilize the products, and part of the 62-year-old's job was to get those cans properly placed in the 35-foot cylindrical oven. That day co-workers began loading cans of their own, unaware that Melena was deep inside, prosecutors said.
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My Toilet Broke, And I Almost Killed Myself Trying To Fix It
As I hopped up the stairs, the sound got louder, and when I made it up, there was a puddle of water growing outward from the bathroom door. I opened the door and the toilet was overflowing.
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Former All Black Jerry Collins killed in car accident
Former All Black Jerry Collins and his wife have died in a tragic car crash in France. Collins and partner Alana Madill died instantly in the incident in the south of France and their three-month-old baby, Ayla, is in a critical condition after being airlifted to a hospital in Montpellier. Collins' agent, Tim Castle, has been appointed as the family spokesperson.
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2,200 Baby Pigs Escape on Ohio Highway After Truck Crashes (auto play video)
Talk about hogging the road. A semi truck carrying 2,200 baby pigs tipped over Monday on an Ohio highway, officials said. The accident happened on U.S. Route 35 in Xenia, which is just southeast of Dayton, officials said. After the crash was reported at about 7:00 p.m. ET, both west and east bound lanes of the bypass were closed, according to NBC affiliate WDTN.
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Father Who Fled Afghanistan To Escape ISIS Killed By Distracted Driver In Sacramento
A father is dead and his eight-year-old son is clinging to life at a local hospital after a car hit them Sunday morning. Malaly Rafi leaves for the hospital where her 8-year-old son is clinging to life. Her husband Mustafa just died and these neighbors are all she has. “We were colleagues, we were friends,” said Latif Yama.
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Two youths dead after crashing into water off causeway service road
The day after her birthday, a 14-year-old girl and an 18-year-old friend were killed early Friday when their car plunged into the Old Tampa Bay after crashing through a guardrail.
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Another terrible escalator accident rattles China
Another day, another devastating escalator accident in China. An employee at Longemont Shopping Mall in Shanghai's Changning district had his foot and part of his leg amputated after becoming trapped in an escalator, according to the South China Morning Post. The worker, identified simply as Zhang, was cleaning the escalator with a mop when he reportedly stepped on it. The mall described the 35-year-old's action as an "improper" one, and said the mop's brush...
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Woman seriously bitten by alligator in Florida river, report says
A woman was seriously bitten by an alligator on Saturday in a Florida river, according to fire officials.
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3 firefighters die in wildfire after vehicle crashes
Three U.S. Forest Service firefighters died after their vehicle crashed and was likely caught by flames as they battled a blaze Wednesday in Washington state, authorities said. Four other firefighters were injured. The casualties came as firefighters on several fronts fought against raging wildfires advancing on towns in the north-central part of the state. The accident occurred near the town of Twisp, the National Forest Service said...
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Man dies after being run over by WWII tank on Jelly Belly chairman's property
The husband of Jelly Belly’s chief executive accidentally crushed a man to death with a World War II-era tank during a reunion on the family’s property in Fairfield, Calif., authorities said. The accident occurred about 2:25 p.m. Saturday afternoon on the property of fourth-generation candy maker Herman Rowland Sr. during a family reunion, authorities said. Rowland is a collector of the military vehicles, which he stores in a restoration facility...
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Kite surfer in critical condition after being blown onto San Francisco highway, hit by car
A kite surfer at a San Francisco beach was caught in a huge gust of wind and dragged across a parking lot on to a highway, where he was hit by a car and critically injured, police said. The man was setting up his rig at the edge of the water on Friday afternoon at Ocean Beach when the wind caught him and took him onto the Great Highway, city police said in a statement. Winds of about 35 mph with gusts approach 50 mph were blowing on the beach at the time.
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