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Thursday, In McDermott, Ohio a concealed carry permit holder dropped a gun in a school gym. It hit the floor and went off, hitting the grandfather in his own leg. This is a big story for two reasons. Carrying in a school is one of the biggest transgressions for a CCW permit holder, and carrying a pistol loose in a jacket pocket is thunderously bone-headed. He was bringing his grandson a bite of food after school and before a basketball practice. He thought he would shoot some hoops with his grandson before practice began, and in the jump shot his...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Two Metro workers were struck and killed by a maintenance truck on a track Tuesday, the latest in a string of fatalities since last year in the Washington area's transit system. The men were installing safety equipment on a track that was closed to regular service for the night when they were hit, Metro said. One worker died at the scene, a few blocks from the Rockville Metro Station, and the other on the way to a hospital. Both men were automatic train control technicians and the crash involved a large truck equipped to drive on the...

Three people died Tuesday night in an accident involving an 11-year-old driver near Woodville in Tulare County, the California Highway Patrol said. The crash happened about 7:25 p.m. at Road 152 and Avenue 168, about midway between Porterville and Tipton. The 11-year-old boy was driving an eastbound 1993 Honda on Avenue 168 and ran a stop sign at Road 152. The car, with four occupants, all from Woodville, was struck broadside by a southbound 1999 Ford driven by Charles Seguin, 44, of Porterville. Seguin sustained minor injuries and was treated at the scene, officers said. But two female rear-seat passengers...

MESA, Ariz. - A teenager accidentally ran over and killed her 17-year-old brother as the two played around in a shopping mall parking lot, police said yesterday. Ed Wessing, Mesa police spokesman, identified the brother as Dwight J. Brock Jr. and his sister as 16-year-old Nicole M. Brock, both residents of Mesa. The sister had dropped off her brother at Superstition Springs Mall on Saturday evening, Wessing said, and then they started playing around, with the brother jumping in front of the car and the sister slamming on the brakes. The last time that happened the sister was unable to...

Vinnie Sorce knew something was wrong when he saw a police officer pull into the driveway. He immediately sent his three children, two boys from a previous marriage and a little girl with his fiancee, to their rooms so he could talk to the officer outside. "Time just froze," he said. Sorce's fiancee, Stacey Stubbs, had headed to Phoenix for a doctor's appointment. She never made it. A Ford pickup truck hit Stubbs' rented PT Cruiser head-on on an isolated stretch of road near Lake Pleasant, killing her instantly. The other driver, Ashley Miller, 19, was thrown from the truck...

FORT WORTH, Texas, Dec. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- On Tuesday, December 22, 2009, American Airlines Flight 331, a Boeing 737-800 aircraft, overran the runway on landing at Kingston, Jamaica's Norman Manley International Airport. The flight originated out of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, operated into Miami International Airport, and then operated into Kingston's Norman Manley International Airport. Preliminary reports indicate there are no critical injuries. The aircraft was carrying 148 passengers and a crew of six. "The care of our passengers and crew members is our highest priority and we will offer all the assistance necessary," said Gerard Arpey, American's Chairman...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A truck hauling beer flipped about 8 p.m. Sunday, tossing kegs and spewing beer across Interstate 90 west, under the West 110th Street bridge. The truck fell onto its side in the median. Police and a cleanup crew were still at the scene at 6:50 this morning. Police were requesting a salt truck to melt a sheet of frozen beer. A police dispatcher, speaking to a Plain Dealer reporter, quipped, "Bring the pretzels." All lanes of the highway were expected to be reopened by 7:15 a.m.

A bizarre accident on a moving walkway in a British shopping centre has almost killed a four-year-old boy and left his face temporarily discoloured. Darren Webb said his son Stevie Webb looks "like an extra out of that new Avatar film" after his head became trapped between two travelators at the Sainsbury's Savacentre in Colliers Wood, south London. Stevie was playing near the walkways when his jacket became snagged — violently snapping his head backwards. He was not breathing when his mother hit the emergency stop button but later regained consciousness. While Stevie is expected to make a full recovery,...

The Florida Highway Patrol wanted to get a blood test from Tiger Woods after the crash, because a witness told them Tiger was boozing earlier in the day -- this according to new documents obtained by TMZ. FHP had requested Tiger's blood sample, after a witness -- we're told his wife -- "stated that the driver had consumed alcohol earlier in the day and the same witness removed the driver from the vehicle after the collision." The document continues, "The same witness stated that the driver was prescribed medication (Ambien and Vicatin [sic]}." As we first reported, it was Elin...

Members of the Southampton Railroad Station Society plan to mark the 1921 crash of two trains near Bryn Athyn, which killed 27. For many area residents the train track on Creek Road in Upper Moreland is just that - a train track. But to some railroad historians like Charles Liberto, Frank Baldwin and Richard Mansley and a few area families, the single lane track means history. A painful history. Saturday will mark the 88th anniversary of a deadly Upper Moreland train wreck that claimed 27 lives and injured 70 people. The crash and the high number of casualties, many of...

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP)—Two workers were injured, one seriously, when they slipped and fell from a roof area of Cowboys Stadium while doing maintenance Thursday morning, authorities said. The two were working on the top hatch of the retractable-roof venue around 7:20 a.m. when they slipped, Assistant Fire Chief Don Crowson said. They were not using “fall protection,” he said. The workers fell from an upper roof to a lower section, police spokeswoman Tiara Ellis Richard said. Live TV coverage showed fire department crews on the roof of the nearly $1.2 billion stadium, where the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys began playing this...

"I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves." Tiger Woods, allegedly caught cheating on his wife, just posted an apology on his Web site. Bonus: See who forced Tiger Woods to confess. We think it's good enough to keep him in Nikes for years: I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart. I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves. I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect. I am dealing with my behavior and personal...

Sources tell TMZ the Florida Highway Patrol is now focusing on obtaining a search warrant -- allowing them to seize medical records from the hospital that treated Tiger Woods -- in an attempt to determine if the wounds Woods sustained are consistent with a car accident or domestic violence We're told authorities believe they can show probable cause a crime was committed, a necessary step in obtaining a warrant. One big piece of evidence showing probable cause ... sources tell us Tiger's wife, Elin Nordegren told FHP troopers she went looking for Tiger in a golf cart, came upon the...

A man had to make the terrible choice of rescuing his wife or teenage son when their car plunged into a river at the weekend. Stacey Horton saved his wife, Vanessa, and their 13-year-old son Silva drowned in the Whanganui River. Mid-Central police communications manager Kim Perks said today it was a very tough call for Mr Horton. "I would certainly not have wanted to be in his shoes." Mrs Horton, 35, was driving Silva, his best friend, Robert Palmer, 14, and the family dog when her Mazda MPV stationwagon went off Somme Parade in Wanganui and plunged down a...

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<p>Three unmarked police vehicles, with their lights and sirens on, were travelling 5 to 10 minutes ahead of the motorcade on Manhattan's West Side and were checking traffic before Biden passed en route to a television appearance on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," chief police spokesman Paul Browne said.</p>

VP Biden's Motorcade Involved In Midtown Crash Witness: Livery Cab Cut Off Unmarked Police Car Escorting Vice President To 'Daily Show With Jon Stewart' Taping Crash Is The Third Involving Vice President's Detail In Last Week NEW YORK (CBS) ― CBS 2 HD has learned three people, including two members of Vice President Joe Biden's advance team, suffered minor injuries in a Midtown car accident on Tuesday evening. The two-car crash happened at approximately 5:40 p.m. at 49th Street and 10th Avenue. The victims and a police officer were taken to Roosevelt and New York hospitals. Biden was unharmed. According...

LOCK HAVEN - It's been almost four months since Valerie Teresa Heidt, 12, of Hublersburg, died in a fatal boat crash on the Susquehanna River and an intensive investigation began. This morning, Clinton County District Attorney Michael F. Salisbury said that probe is nearing an end and he will be meeting with officials today to discuss time tables and charging options. Salisbury said his office was contacted Tuesday by the private New Jersey firm conducting the crash reconstruction segment of the investigation and has been informed that the report is in the "final stages and should be received within the...

Authorities say a charter bus carrying members of the Morehouse College band has crashed on Interstate 75, injuring several students on their way to a football game.

A six-month-old boy has miraculously survived a train slamming into his stroller after it rolled off an Australian railway platform. The collision happened as a city-bound service pulled up to Ashburton station, in a Melbourne suburb. A security video shows the boy's mother taking her hands off the stroller's handles and failing to notice as it slowly edged toward the tracks.