Two children were killed and over a dozen people were injured after a driver crashed into a Michigan boat club where a birthday party was taking place, authorities say. The incident took place at Swan Boat Club in the Charter Township of Berlin at around 3 p.m. on Saturday afternoon. Two siblings, a 5-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl, were …
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Authorities in New Jersey are investigating what caused a school bus to burst into flames on a busy highway with 10 students aboard. STUDENTS, DRIVER ESCAPE MOMENTS BEFORE NJ SCHOOL BUS BURSTS INTO FLAMES ON HIGHWAY The driver and all 10 students were able to safely get off the bus after the fire broke out Wednesday afternoon on the Garden …
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A man died in a fire under an Atlantic City pier near a homeless encampment, authorities said. The Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office said Friday that Bruce Elder, 67, died in a fire that began Thursday evening under the Central Pier at the boardwalk and Tennessee Avenue. Fire Chief Scott Evans said Elder was believed to be homeless, and the prosecutor’s …
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Authorities evacuated an area of Ohio’s capital, Columbus, for several hours on Thursday out of fear that a fire in truck’s trailer could have caused lithium ion batteries to explode. DRIVER DEAD AFTER FIERY CRASH INTO CHICAGO-AREA TOLL PLAZA Police began evacuating a several-block area west of downtown shortly after 7 a.m. and closed off several highway exits near the …
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A vehicle plowed into a suburban Chicago highway toll plaza early Thursday, engulfing it and the plaza in flames and killing the motorist, police said. STUDENTS, DRIVER ESCAPE MOMENTS BEFORE NJ SCHOOL BUS BURSTS INTO FLAMES ON HIGHWAY Illinois State Police said troopers responded to the scene after receiving a report that a vehicle had struck the Barrington Road Toll …
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Pennsylvania utility regulators must turn over inspection records to the National Transportation Safety Board as part of the federal agency’s probe into a fatal explosion at a chocolate factory last year, a federal judge ruled this week. U.S. District Judge Christopher C. Conner sided Tuesday with the federal safety board in its dispute with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, which …
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An 11-year-old boy was killed when he crashed an all-terrain vehicle while riding on a neighbor’s property in the northern Maine town of Sangerville, wardens said. 3 PENNSYLVANIA CONSTRUCTION WORKERS DEAD AFTER BEING HIT BY TRUCK ON I-83 The neighbor went looking for the boy and found him unresponsive with the ATV on top of him at about 4:15 p.m. …
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Three construction workers on a maintenance project along a Pennsylvania interstate were struck and killed by a truck early Wednesday, state police said. Investigators said a 24-year-old man was driving a large box truck at about 3:25 a.m. when it struck a construction vehicle in a work zone, then hit the three workers on the shoulder. The fatal crash occurred …
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A Minnesota toddler who fell from a South Dakota hotel’s third-floor window has died. Kathryn and Alex Hein of Lakefield, Minnesota, wrote in a Facebook post that their year-old son, Madden, died Monday, two days after falling at Club House Hotel & Suites in Sioux Falls. MAN TAKES FATAL 6-STORY PLUNGE WHILE TRYING TO FLEE SOUTH CAROLINA HOTEL SHOOTING “It …
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At least eight people from one family have died after their homemade boat sank in central Mozambique, state media reported Tuesday. Monday’s sinking on a tributary of the Zambezi River in Sofala province came days after nearly 100 people, many of them children, died in one of the country’s worst shipwrecks. DEATH TOLL IN MOZAMBIQUE FERRY DISASTER CLIMBS TO 98 …
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