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U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 20, 2007 @ 9:40pm neoform

Wallstreet Journal -- A collision with a semi-trailer truck seven years ago left 52-year-old Deborah Shank permanently brain-damaged and in a wheelchair. Her husband, Jim, and three sons found a small source of solace: a $700,000 accident settlement from the trucking company i.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jul 5, 2007 @ 10:57am neoform

www.wfaa.com -- Doctors reattached the right foot of a 13-year-old girl involved in a gruesome amusement park accident, but her left foot was too severely damaged to repair, her family and doctor said in a statement Tuesday. Kaitlyn Lasitter of Louisville remained in.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Oct 23, 2006 @ 1:16pm neoform

FOX News -- An elevator in a campus dormitory where an Ohio State University student was pinned and killed has been sealed while state inspectors and police investigate... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 30, 2007 @ 12:39pm neoform

USA Today -- Investigators were re-examining a gyrating ride at a historic amusement park after a young woman died in the second fatal accident in less than four years, the fourth death at the park in that span. The woman was killed Friday night on the Mind Scrambl.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 23, 2007 @ 9:19am neoform

CNN -- A teen who lost her feet in an accident at a Kentucky amusement park has undergone surgery, a park spokeswoman said Friday, while two park operators closed similar rides around the country. The Superman Tower of Power at Louisville's Six Flags Kentucky.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 22, 2007 @ 12:43pm neoform

SF Gate -- State officials were continuing an investigation Friday into what caused a thrill ride accident at a popular amusement park in Louisville. Investigators returned to Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom to examine the Superman Tower of Power ride, where a teenage.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 19, 2007 @ 12:23am neoform

FOX News -- Charges could be filed in the weekend drag-racing accident in Tennessee that killed six young car show spectators and left more than a dozen others injured, officials said Monday. The Tennessee Highway Patrol told reporters at a news conference that in.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Mar 22, 2007 @ 7:54pm neoform

CNN -- A man accused of gunning down a teenager over an affair with his teacher wife admitted to the shooting in a jailhouse interview aired Thursday but said it was an accident. Eric McLean, charged with first-degree murder in the death of Sean Powell, told.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 20, 2007 @ 2:07pm neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- The four BP oil workers who were filling a vertical tank with chemicals when it exploded in America's worst industrial accident for a generation had all been working 12-hour shifts for more than four weeks without a day off. In a final report into the.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 16, 2007 @ 6:12pm neoform

USA Today -- A vehicle in President Bush's motorcade traveling from Washington to the Camp David presidential retreat collided Friday with another car on an icy Interstate, but no one was injured. Bush typically is flown in the Marine One helicopter from the South.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Dec 16, 2006 @ 1:36pm neoform

Click On Detroit -- A man charged with seriously injuring two people while allegedly drag racing down a Pontiac street has lengthy driving record, Local 4 reported... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Dec 15, 2006 @ 4:09pm neoform

ABC News -- A sting from a hornet caused a truck driver to lose control of his vehicle, and sent his 16.5 ton load of hydrochloric acid all over an expressway in northern Malaysia, an official and a news report said Thursday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Oct 20, 2006 @ 4:22pm neoform

Northwest Florida Daily News -- A 16-year-old girl counted down her suicide attempt through text messages to a female classmate who had rebuffed her sexual advances before crashing her vehicle into an oncoming car, killing a mother of three and injuring the victim's 6-year-old daughter.. Read More