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Accident Kills 2 On I-90
KAAL-TV - (KAAL) — A fatal accident near Austin, has claimed the lives of two area residents. The State Patrol says two people died Sunday night when their pick-up lost control, went into the median, and rolled on I-90 west of Austin. The truck was driven by

Rescuers Struggle to Save Crash Survivor
Philadelphia Inquirer - The wreckage from the accident was in a hard-to-reach site on the slope of the Baru volcano, at an altitude of some 3,500 feet, the civil aviation authority said. Officials said she suffered multiple injuries and hypothermia, and cold, wet weather

The secrets behind medical slang
Daily Telegraph - A Hasselhoff, for example, is a patient who gives doctors in accident and emergency a bizarre explanation for their injury. It was coined after former Baywatch actor David Hasselhoff said last year that he had hit his head on a chandelier while

Boston’s $14.8B Big Dig Finally Complete
Forbes - stemming from the July 2006 tunnel ceiling collapse continue, though on Monday the family of Milena Del Valle announced a $6 million settlement with Powers Fasteners, the company that manufactured the epoxy blamed by investigators for the accident

Canton girl, 13, is killed skiing
Detroit News - A 13-year-old Canton Township girl was killed in a Christmas Day skiing accident in Michigan’s northern Lower Peninsula, police said. Sgt. David Kopkau of the Antrim County Sheriff’s Office said the girl, who had not yet been identified, was skiing

SKorea Finds Possible Sunken Ship
CBS News - The accident came as South Korea battles to contain the nation’s worst-ever oil spill, after a wayward barge hit a supertanker Dec. 7 and caused the tanker to leak 78,920 barrels of oil. Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This

At Least 15 Dead, Hundreds Missing After Bridge Collapse in West Nepal
FOX News - One official said more than 100 could be missing, although there were no precise figures available from the remote, chaotic accident scene. The Web site ekantipur.com, a Nepal news site that published the first photo from the scene, reports the death

Family settles for $6 million in Big Dig death
Houston Chronicle - BOSTON After weeks of negotiations, the family of a woman killed when a Big Dig highway tunnel collapsed on her car has reached a $6 million settlement with the epoxy supplier blamed for the accident, family representatives and company officials

Eastern Poconos
Pocono Record - If there’s a fire, a bad accident or a weather emergency, one thing you can count on is the familiar white Salvation Army truck, ready to dispense Deer Head Inn raises funds for the DWG Fire Co. - 12/22/2007 Jason Wilson of The Deer Head Inn

Teen killed on I-95 while retrieving fallen object from pickup
Boston Globe - Matthew Osborne, a student at Hampden Academy, was pronounced dead on arrival at Eastern Maine Medical Center. A portion of the highway was closed for several hours following the Monday evening accident. —– Information from: WLBZ-TV, http:// www

Keeping weather eye on 4,500 miles of M-way and trunk roads
Guardian Unlimited - The M1 southbound was closed between junctions four and one because of an accident and it was expected to be shut for some time. There was a lane closure on the M6 because a heavy goods lorry had blown a tyre and the driver was changing it on the

More fog and ice lie in wait as 3.5m set off for Christmas getaway
Times Online - The A34 in Berkshire was closed northbound, between the M4 and the A4130, after a serious accident. The A11 in Norfolk, the M6 in Cumbria, the M40 in Buckinghamshire, the M4 in west London, the M3 in Hampshire, the A303 in Wiltshire and the M25, were

R&B singer R. Kelly allowed to stay free on bond
Xinhua News Agency - The singer’s absence was an accident because his tour bus was delayed by snow in California and was later stopped for speeding in Utah, according to his lawyers. In court Friday, Gaughan scolded Kelly for his speeding buses, saying it

Delays Continue on Outer Loop Following Accident
Washington Post - An afternoon traffic accident has caused residual delays on the outer loop of the Beltway. Shortly before 2 p.m. a vehicle on the outer loop just before New Hampshire Avenue, lost control and struck another vehicle. Three people received non life

HPD investigates fatal pedestrian accident
Houston Chronicle - Houston police are investigating a fatal accident involving a pedestrian, according to emergency radio traffic. An ambulance was called to the scene near Hillcroft and Main at 6:13 a.m., according to emergency incident records. No details of the

Man survives accident, killed in another
Earthtimes - HOUSTON, Dec. 21 A Houston man who survived a car accident Friday was fatally hit by a car as he returned to his vehicle after making a phone call for help. Sgt. Gregory Hall of the Houston Police Department said the victim was returning to his

Saudi police nab militants as haj ends
International Herald Tribune - The ritual passed without incident at the Jamarat, an accident spot during earlier pilgrimages, with its three stone “pillars” now converted into long elliptical walls which can handle a much higher turnover of pilgrims. Since some 362 people were

Linehan chalks up sideline spat with Holt to Rams’ 3-win season
ESPN.com - Linehan said he found out about the accident the following week, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch disclosed the accident on Thursday. Because backup quarterback Gus Frerotte also was out with a partially torn labrum in his throwing shoulder, the Rams

Victim airlifted to hospital after Gloucester accident
Hampton Roads Daily Press - GLOUCESTER - At least one victim was airlifted to Riverside Regional Medical Center Friday after a two-vehicle accident on Route 17, just north of Paige Middle School. A helicopter touched down in the field just north of the school around 1:30, and

Daily commute is getting slower, says VicRoads
News.com.au - It is not just roadworks accident etc that slow down traffic flow. I am a pro truck driver and see the idiots that add to the congestion. Monash slows considerably just before High St outbound because there is a lane for people wanting to exit at

Highway Patrol seizes cash from I-80 accident
Wyoming Tribune-Eagle - ROCK SPRINGS (AP) — Wyoming Highway Patrol troopers seized $41,700 in cash from the scene of a traffic accident on Interstate 80 on Monday. A semitrailer demolished a house trailer in a weather-caused wreck near Wamsutter. The accident scattered

Accident Verdict On Storm Drain Victim
Sky.com - Michael Barnett, 28, died from hypothermia in raging floodwater despite a four-hour operation to free him from the drain in Hessle, Hull, on June 25. The jury was told how Mr Barnett, who worked at a nearby tropical fish business, went into the drain

Samsung at a Loss to Explain Oil Spill
Digital Chosunilbo - explain the worst oil spill in South Korea s history, which occurred after a crane-carrying barge from Samsung Heavy Industries collided with a Hong Kong-registered oil tanker in waters off Mallipo, Taean, South Chungcheong Province. The accident

British police arrest wife of man accused of faking death in insurance
International Herald Tribune - Her husband John Darwin, 57, who turned up in London last weekend after he was declared officially dead in a 2002 canoe accident, was charged Saturday with fraud and acquiring a passport under a false name. Detectives have said they hope to learn how

Police quiz Peruvian refugee called Paddington
News.com.au - The appeal of the accident-prone bear remains undiminished after half a century. When he branched out from marmalade in a television advertisement for Marmite, it made headlines around the world. Bond was working as a BBC cameraman when a bear he

Caught Off Guard in Oil Spill Disaster
Digital Chosunilbo - It was only Sunday morning, 48 hours after the accident, that emergency workers were finally able to close up the last of the vessel’s three ruptured tanks. That was after 15,000 kl of crude had leaked into the sea. A 20 km-wide belt of oil has

History of the Union - Part one: To 1707
Daily Telegraph - Then, by an accident of dynastic succession, James VI, King of Scots, inherited the English throne as James I, at the Union of the Crowns in 1603. James inherited as the great-grandson of James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor, sister of Henry VIII

‘Missing’ canoeist due in court
BBC UK News - John Darwin was presumed dead for more than five years. A 57-year-old man who turned up alive five years after being presumed dead in a canoeing accident is due in court. John Darwin is due before Hartlepool magistrates accused of obtaining life

Bradenton woman dies in interstate accident
Bradenton Herald - A one-vehicle accident on Interstate 75 in Sarasota County today killed a 53-year-old Bradenton woman and seriously injured her husband, the Florida Highway Patrol said. Pronounced dead at the scene was Debra R. Hesser. Airlifted to Bayfront Medical

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Newsday - Hours before their 47-story plummet off a skyscraper, two brothers told a family member that they were concerned about a mechanical problem with the scaffold that broke off, sending one hurtling to his death and critically injuring the other, a

N.H. man killed in accident
Boston Globe - HAMPSTEAD, N.H. A 23-year-old New Hampshire man has died in an early morning accident. State police identified the victim as John Bourdelais of Atkinson. Police said he was driving his pickup truck north on Route 121A when he lost control and

Truck accident causes fire
Boston Globe - EVERETT– A tanker truck carrying gasoline overturned on Main Street early this morning, causing a three-alarm fire and prompting evacuation of nearby residents, according to radio reports. The truck, carrying 90,000 gallons of gasoline, flipped over

U.K. police arrest man who disappeared five years ago and now claims
International Herald Tribune - LONDON : British police on Wednesday arrested a man who vanished more than five years ago in an apparent canoeing accident in the North Sea, then reappeared over the weekend saying he had lost his memory. Cleveland police in northeast England said

Mirko Bagaric: Why do I like Paris?
News.com.au - Paris didn’t get to be No. 1 by accident. But there are a lot of positives to Paris. Paris is herself. She has thrown out the rule book. She teaches us about the fallacy of the search for status and the importance of self-belief. People want status

South Shore service suspended after crash
Chicago Sun-Times - All westbound train service west of the Portage/Ogden Dunes station has been suspended until the accident can be cleared by the coroner, the site said. The Lake County Coroner’s Office could not confirm a death at 7 a.m. The train was scheduled to

Harrington Picked to Lead Pr. George’s Council; Knapp To Head
Washington Post - Knapp succeeds Marilyn Praisner (D-Eastern County), whose one-year term ended as she was recovering from a car accident. Praisner returned home yesterday after two weeks in the hospital. Council member Phil Andrews (D- Gaithersburg -Rockville), who was

Abuse, neglect claims probed in Spears case
CNN - the custody and visitation schedules in a declaration filed in October, arguing that “such information greatly increases the chances that the actions of the media could threaten the safety of the children by, for example, causing a traffic accident.”

Cops To Truckers: Help Find Stacy Peterson
CBS News - At the time, a coroner’s jury called Savio’s death an accidental drowning, but investigators now say they believe her death was a homicide staged to look like an accident. They’re awaiting results of a second autopsy after exhuming her body last month

Trasnet sees SAfrica RBCT line back to normal by Sun
Reuters UK - Transnet had said that trains had run at roughly 80 percent of their normal rate after the incident on Nov. 22 and it expected the situation to return to normal within two weeks. The freak accident was big news on the global coal market, given South

Phew! Santa’s Reindeer Escape M3 Crash
Sky.com - Phew! Santa’s Reindeer Escape M3 Crash Updated:13:39, Monday December 03, 2007 Two reindeer have had a “lucky escape” after they survived a motorway accident without so much as a broken antler.

Death driver lost licence, say police
News.com.au - Moments after the accident, bystanders rushed to help and reassure the victims. Others screamed. Robert Vincent was inside his shoe shop in Point Nepean Rd about 2.30pm when he heard a huge bang outside, where seconds earlier the driver had been

Mating peacocks moved for safety
BBC News - We were concerned the peacocks might be injured or killed by the traffic, or cause an accident, so we have decided to disperse this particular flock. “A new collection of peacocks and peahens will be introduced to the site in February, which will

UK small caps near day’s low at midday; Agcert International slumps as
Forbes - Elsewhere, Regent Inns fell 15-1/4 pence to 27-1/2 pence, as it said it is no longer confident of achieving full-year pretax profit growth, while numbers woes also hit Accident Exchange, shedding 12 pence to 87-1/2 pence, as it reported a fall in

Ukrainian president calls for closure of deadly coal mine
Xinhua News Agency - KIEV, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) — Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko Monday demanded the closure of the deadly Zasyadko coal mine in eastern Ukraine after three successive blasts in two weeks. “Due to the latest accident at the Zasyadko mine, I insist the

Spam s End? Maybe, if Time Allows
New York Times - thinking about the spam problem for a number of years and has several patents covering other approaches, but Mr. Kirsch said he had hit on the idea underlying Abaca profiling the recipient of e-mail rather than the sender quite by accident