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Horse racing groups introduce competing safety legislation they hope will replace HISA
WASHINGTON (AP) — New legislation introduced in Congress on Tuesday would dismantle the year-old national authority in charge of regulating safety and medication in horse racing and replace it with an organization backers say would allow for the safe treatment of horses and address concerns about...
Car crashes into Amish horse-drawn buggy in Minnesota, killing 2 people and the horse
SPRING VALLEY, Minn. (AP) — A car crashed into an Amish horse-drawn buggy with four people inside, killing two people and the horse while injuring the other two people, authorities in southern Minnesota said. The crash occurred Monday morning north of Spring Valley on County Road...
New cars are supposed to be getting safer. So why are fatalities on the rise?
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Alyssa Milligan was someone who intuitively knew when another person needed help, encouragement or a kind word. Although she was new to Tennessee, the 23-year old physical therapy student, whose mother called her “Sweet Alyssa,” had already made many close connections,...
5 dead, including one child, after 2 private planes collide in northern Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Five people, including one child, were killed when two private planes crashed Monday morning in the Mexican northern state of Durango, state authorities said. The crash occurred on a small dirt airstrip in the town of La Galancita, in western Durango. Two planes,...
More charges filed against 2 teens held in fatal bicyclist hit-and-run video case in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Prosecutors filed additional criminal charges Monday against two teenagers being held as adults in the video-recorded killing of a retired former Southern California police chief as he rode his bicycle on a Las Vegas road. The teens, ages 18 and 16, are due in...
Indiana teen working for tree-trimming service killed when log rolls out of trailer, strikes him
MONTPELIER, Ind. (AP) — A teenager working for a tree-trimming service died in northeastern Indiana when a log rolled out of a trailer and struck him, authorities said. Braeden Depew, 18, of Kokomo was pronounced dead at the scene Saturday morning on Montpelier’s west side, said...
Sheriff's office investigating crash that killed 3 in Maine
GLENBURN, Maine (AP) — A vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed traveled off a road, crashed into a culvert and rolled over, killing all three occupants, officials said. The crash occurred around 2:30 a.m. Sunday on Phillips Road near Merryman Road in Glenburn, the Penobscot...
Pilot dies in crash of an ultralight in central New Mexico
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M. (AP) — One person has died in the crash of an ultralight in central New Mexico, authorities said Monday. Federal Aviation Administration officials said the crash occurred around 6 p.m. Sunday near the Truth or Consequences airport and the pilot was the...
Michigan woman will serve up to 5 years in prison for crash into icy pond that killed her 3 sons
HOLLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A western Michigan woman was sentenced to up to five years in prison Monday for a crash in which her three young sons drowned after her SUV plunged into an ice-covered pond. Leticia Gonzales had pleaded no contest in August to operating while...
Historians race to find Great Lakes shipwrecks before quagga mussels destroy the sites
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Great Lakes’ frigid fresh water used to keep shipwrecks so well preserved that divers could see dishes in the cupboards. Downed planes that spent decades underwater were left so pristine they could practically fly again when archaeologists finally discovered them. ...
