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Robin Williams' Widow Discusses Husband's Tragic Death
Susan Williams gives her first interview since the famed comedian's death in August 2014.
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Family Loses 13-Year-Old Son to 'Choking Game'
Whether it’s called “suffocation roulette,” “cloud nine,” or simply the “choking game,” it’s a dangerous activity that’s been around for millennia, the Washington Post notes—and it’s just resulted in another teen death. Memphis Burgess, a 13-year-old from Colorado Springs, Colo., was found by his dad Dec. 10 kneeling against his closet wall with a soft rope nearby, KKTV reports. “I thought he was messing with me and I shook his shoulder,” Brad Burgess tells the station.
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20 dead in bus crash in Mexico
Twenty people died when a bus plunged off a bridge and fell into a deep gorge, Mexican officials said.
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British explorer Henry Worsley dies crossing Antarctic
British explorer Henry Worsley has died attempting to be the first person to cross the Antarctic unaided, in an epic charity mission inspired by Ernest Shackleton. The 55-year-old former British Army officer died after being airlifted to a hospital in Punta Arenas, Chile, suffering severe exhaustion and dehydration. The father-of-two was found to have bacterial peritonitis (a bacterial infection in the abdomen), after having trekked around 913 miles unaided across the South Pole...
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UK band Viola Beach 'killed in Swedish car crash'
The four members of British indie band Viola Beach and their manager have died in a car crash in Sweden. Kris Leonard, River Reeves, Tomas Lowe and Jack Dakin and manager Craig Tarry were killed when their car plunged more than 25m (82ft) from a highway bridge into a canal. The incident happened in the early hours of Saturday near Stockholm. Mr Tarry's family say they are grieving his loss and "for the other families involved in this tragic accident".
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Columbine: 17 Years of Aftershocks
Susan Klebold, the mother of Columbine shooter Dylan, has a new book. It’s worth remembering the other survivors left to piece together their broken families. The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horror, one of those touching vignettes will pop up on the TV, encapsulating the brief life of a victim in thirty seconds, and the remote is already in hand. My thumb hovers over the FF, poised to deflect theses tributes....
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Joshua Brown, Who Died in Self-Driving Accident, Tested Limits of His Tesla
Joshua Brown loved his all-electric Tesla Model S so much he nicknamed it Tessy. And he celebrated the Autopilot feature that made it possible for him to cruise the highways, making YouTube videos of himself driving hands-free. In the first nine months he owned it, Mr. Brown put more than 45,000 miles on the car. “I do drive it a LOT,” he wrote in response to one of the hundreds of viewer comments on one of his two dozen Tesla-themed videos. His postings attracted countless other Tesla enthusiasts, who tend to embrace the cars with an almost cultish devotion.
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GoFundMe campaigns raise money for Sterling, Castile families
Although it’s impossible to take away the pain of losing a loved one, two people have stepped forward to help the families of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, both victims of police shootings this week. Writer/actress Issa Rae and director/photographer Xavier L. Burgin created GoFundMe campaigns for Sterling and Castille’s families, respectively. Sterling was fatally shot by police Tuesday in Baton Rouge, La., and Castille on Wednesday in Minneapolis.
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The Magpie That Saved a Family
After a fall left Sam Bloom paralysed and depressed, help came from an unexpected source – a magpie chick which had fallen from its nest.
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11 of 13 killed in Palm Springs-area bus crash are identified
Twelve of the 13 people who died in a Palm Springs-area bus crash Sunday have been identified by the Riverside County Coroner's Office. They were killed when a tour bus crashed into a semi on Interstate 10 early Sunday. The bus was headed back to the Los Angeles area from Red Earth Casino in Thermal. Those identified by the Coroner's Office are...
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Tragedy at Dreamworld as FOUR people are crushed to death on ride
Four adults are reportedly dead after an accident on the Thunder River Rapids ride at Dreamworld theme park on Queensland's Gold Coast.
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The tales of bodies and blood that surround a front line in Syria
In the village of Soran, near Hama, and the surrounding area, civilians speak of their loss as part of one battle in Syria's larger civil war, writes Robert Fisk.
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Sick boy died 'after parents prayed instead of calling ambulance'
Two parents in Minnesota could face jail after allegedly trying to save their sick seven-year-old son's life by praying rather than calling 911. Timothy and Sarah Johnson, of Plymouth, have been charged with child neglect over the death of their adopted son Seth in March 2015 after he came down with pancreatitis and acute sepsis. The couple allegedly opted to treat their son themselves because they had “issues going to doctors” and were concerned about the medications they would prescribe, the New York Post reported.
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Germany takes harder look at child marriages
It’s just a bus stop in a city in northern Germany.
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One by one, the workers went down a manhole. Then silence. All are dead.
An unimaginable tragedy struck in a small community of a few dozen homes on Long Key Road in the Florida Keys Monday morning, when three workers from a private contractor tasked with fixing a roadway climbed into a hole in the ground and, ultimately, to their deaths. By the time a Key Largo firefighter climbed into the same hole near Lake Surprise in a desperate attempt to save the men, they were dead. And within seconds, the firefighter was also overcome by poisonous gas and was fighting for his life.
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Dad mistakes teen visiting daughter for burglar; kills him
Authorities say a man fatally shot a suspected intruder without realizing that his 14-year-old daughter had let the teenager into the home in east Georgia. Columbia County sheriff’s Maj. Steve Morris tells news outlets that Grovetown homeowner Derrick Fulton killed 17-year-old Jordan Middleton while investigating noises he heard downstairs about 3 a.m. Saturday.
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19 die in fire at Guatemala children's shelter
At least 19 people have been found dead at the scene of a fire in a shelter for children near Guatemala City, officials said. A spokesman for Guatemala's volunteer fire departments, Mario Cruz, said that firefighters were still extinguishing parts of the blaze. But he said that so far 19 bodies have been found and about two dozen people were being treated for injuries.
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Bullied daughter Julia Derbyshire 'just wanted to be loved'
The father of a teenage girl who tried to hang herself after being bullied online said she "just wanted to be loved and she wanted to be accepted". Adrian Derbyshire, who shared photos of his dying daughter Julia in hospital to raise awareness, said abuse began after she spoke about her sexuality. Instead of celebrating her 18th birthday last week, "I ended up putting roses on her grave", he said.
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Japan avalanche: eight high school climbers feared dead
More than 60 students were climbing near the Nasu Onsen ski resort north of Tokyo when the tragedy hit
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Death toll climbs to 254 in southern Colombia landslide
At least 254 people have been killed and hundreds are injured or missing after mudslides destroyed homes in southern Colombia, Reuters has reported, citing an army statement. The violent weather has left 400 other people injured, with 200 missing, said the statement. There have been no reports of Chinese casualties, confirmed the Chinese Embassy in Colombia.
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