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Florida woman saved from burning car just before it explodes
STUART, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man stopped at the scene of a burning wreck and teamed up with a sheriff's officer to save the woman inside just before the car exploded. Tony Weisman told WPTV on Thursday he saw the front part of a car on fire when he pulled up to the crash in Stuart, Florida, and was told...
Bus catches fire in road accident in India; at least 20 dead
LUCKNOW, India (AP) — At least 20 people were killed when a double-decker bus caught fire after ramming into a truck on a highway in northern India, police said. Another 21 people were taken to a hospital, some of them in critical condition, following the crash late Friday, said senior police officer Mohit...
Drunken driver in Italy plows into German tourists, kills 6
ROME (AP) — A drunken driver speeding on a mountain road plowed into a group of young German tourists in northern Italy early Sunday, killing six people and injuring 11 others, Italian authorities said. The deadly crash occurred in a village of Valle Aurina, northeast of Bolzano in the Alto Adige region,...
Official: 1 dead from plane crash in Maryland neighborhood
LANHAM, Md. (AP) — A small plane crashed in the Maryland suburbs of the nation's capital Sunday, hitting a home's carport and killing the lone person aboard the aircraft, authorities said. The plane came down in the neighborhood of Lanham shortly before 3 p.m., striking the carport before it broke into...
Plane crash kills 5, including LSU coach's daughter-in-law
ATLANTA (AP) — A small plane en route to a college football playoff game crashed into a post office parking lot in Louisiana shortly after takeoff Saturday, killing five people, including a well-known sports reporter who was the daughter-in-law of one of the team's coaches. The two-engine Piper Cheyenne...
Blind homeless man beaten to death in Tennessee; 1 charged
Dec. 24, 2019 6:20 AM EST
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A man is accused of beating a blind homeless man to death with a fire extinguisher near a Tennessee bus stop. Brandon Brown, 32, has been arrested and charged with criminal homicide in the death of the man found slain Monday morning, news outlets report. His bond has been set at...
NTSB finds excessive speed caused Tesla crash that killed 2
DETROIT (AP) — Speed of over a hundred miles per hour on a curve caused a 2018 crash and fire in Florida that killed the teenage driver of a Tesla Model S and a passenger, federal investigators have concluded. The National Transportation Safety Board, in a report released Thursday, said the battery-powered...
Palestinians: Israeli settlers torch cars in West Bank
Nov. 22, 2019 9:12 AM EST
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israeli settlers attacked five villages in the occupied West Bank overnight, torching vehicles and olive trees, and leaving graffiti on the walls of homes, Palestinian officials said Friday. Ghassan Daghlas, a spokesman for the Nablus governorate, said the Jewish settlers set...