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SF Gate
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A mental patient who was shot at his home on Wednesday by Santa Rosa police has died from his injuries, authorities said today.
The 24-year-old man, whose name was not released, was shot after threatening three police officers with a large kitchen knif..
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SF Gate
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Eight people were shot and three of them died on a particularly violent day in Richmond on Tuesday, police said.
The shootings took place in four different attacks throughout the day, starting at 9:45 a.m. in North Richmond and ending with a quadruple..
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MSNBC
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Severe weather deluged parts of the Midwest overnight, washing away bridges and roadways where five people died in southeastern Minnesota, authorities said Sunday.
Two of those killed were in a vehicle near Stockton that was caught in the floodwaters,..
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CNN
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A biplane stunt pilot died after he crashed in front of thousands of spectators during a Dayton, Ohio, air show Saturday, a day after another pilot was killed during an air show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. WHIO-TV reported pilot Jim LeRoy of Billings, Montana,..
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FOX News
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Police investigating a row house fire that killed five small children earlier this week have determined that the youngsters had been left home alone and started the blaze when they were playing with matches.
There was no 17-year-old baby sitter looking..
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FOX News
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An 18-month-old boy died Wednesday of suspected heat exposure after he climbed into a dishwasher that started running, police said.
Authorities are still investigating, but said it appeared the boy's death was accidental.
"This is probably the harde..
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FOX News
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A 65-year-old golfer died Tuesday after his golf cart plunged 75 feet off a cliff and crashed into a road below, authorities said.
Edwin Payne teed off with three friends on the second hole of the Pala Mesa Resort Golf Course in northern San Diego Coun..
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USA Today
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A capuchin monkey at the Denver Zoo has died of plague and officials are trying to prevent an epidemic by isolating the primates and treating them with antibiotics.
Zoo officials learned late Friday that the 8-year-old animal that died Wednesday tested..
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Jacksonville.com
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A Superior Court jury convicted a vegan couple of murder and cruelty to children Wednesday in the death of their 6-week-old, who was fed a diet largely consisting of soy milk and apple juice.
Jade Sanders, 27, and Lamont Thomas, 31, will receive automa..
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USA Today
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A 13-year-old boy was charged with manslaughter for allegedly attacking another boy on a school playground who later died of his injuries, police said.
The suspect was arrested Friday in connection with the March 23 incident. His name was not released..
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CBS News
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As many as one in six animals died in tests of suspect dog and cat food by the manufacturer last month after complaints the products were poisoning pets around the country, the government said Monday.
"That's a huge number, considering when you feed pe..
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CNN
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A man angry his toddler daughter wouldn't go to bed knocked her unconscious and left her to die outside in single-digit temperatures, police said. The frozen body of Nyia Miangel Page, who was about to turn 2, was found Sunday at an abandoned playgroun..
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Yahoo News
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Gerald R. Ford, who picked up the pieces of Richard Nixon's scandal-shattered White House as the 38th and only unelected president in America's history, has died, his wife, Betty, said Tuesday. He was 93...
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MSNBC
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The heat wave that gripped the East Coast over the weekend and into Tuesday claimed the lives of 17 people, and most of the victims were elderly.
The Philadelphia medical examiner's office said eight people there died of heat-related causes in the four..
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SF Gate
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Stunned survivors picked through the little that was left of their communities Sunday after tornadoes tore across the Plains and South, killing at least 22 people in three states and leaving behind a trail of destruction and stories of loss.
At least 1..
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MSNBC
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A dolphin died over the weekend at a SeaWorld sister park after colliding with another dolphin during a guest interaction program.
About 32 visitors were in the lagoon Saturday afternoon when the two dolphins swam into the deeper center and leapt from..
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SF Gate
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One person died and another was hospitalized when a motorcycle crashed into a van on Lucas Valley Road in unincorporated Marin County this morning, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The crash was reported at 11:52 a.m. just east of Nicasio Va..
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MSNBC
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At least two people died after wind-driven wildfires burned into a southeast Colorado town and an Army post. An air tanker pilot was also killed when his plane went down while battling another blaze.
At least 20 buildings were damaged in Ordway and abo..
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MSNBC
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A widow is suing Petsmart Inc, saying that her husband died after a liver transplant that was contaminated by a sick hamster sold by the largest U.S. specialty pet retailer to the organ donor.
The suit, filed in Massachusetts Superior Court in February..
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CNN
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The daughter of a woman made a gruesome discovery while going through her bedroom closet after she'd died -- the decomposing body of another woman wrapped in plastic, blankets and a sleeping bag.
The Jefferson County Sheriff's Department is trying to i..
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