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Driver who hit Oklahoma runners gets 3rd manslaughter charge
MOORE, Okla. (AP) — A man accused of striking a group of suburban Oklahoma City high school cross-country athletes with his speeding pickup truck faces an additional manslaughter charge after the death of a third student. Prosecutors on Tuesday filed a third charge of manslaughter against 57-year-old Max...
Principal: Crossing guard fatally struck by car saved 2 kids
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A crossing guard who died after being hit by a vehicle in Kansas City, Kansas, saved the lives of two children before the impact, a school principal said. The guard was struck early Tuesday near Christ the King Parish School in Kansas City, Kansas, and died later at a hospital....
1 person dead when high speed train hits car in Florida
POMPANO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — One person died Tuesday morning when a car was hit by a high speed train in South Florida, officials said. The Brightline train, which operates between Miami and West Palm Beach, struck the car at an intersection in Pompano Beach about 10:12 a.m. Tuesday, said sheriff's...
4 killed, dozens injured in highway pileup in South Korea
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Four people were killed and 43 were injured Monday in a highway pileup in snowy weather in southwestern South Korea, officials said. The Jeonbuk Provincial Police Agency said the pileup involved about 30 vehicles, including a chemical truck carrying nitric acid that flipped over...
UK grapples with severe floods, storm death toll rises to 3
LONDON (AP) — Britain issued severe flood warnings Monday, advising of life-threatening danger after Storm Dennis dumped weeks' worth of rain in some places. A woman was found dead after being swept away by the floodwaters, the storm's third confirmed victim. To the east, Dennis' gale-force winds also left...
Man gets 15 years for fatally driving car into friend
LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — A man who killed a friend by crashing a car into a house has been given 15 years in prison. The Kansas City Star reported that Jacob Mustoe was sentenced last week in Clay County Circuit Court in Liberty. He'd pleaded guilty in October to voluntary manslaughter for the June 25, 2017,...
Air Force Academy blames accidents for traffic at NHL game
AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colorado (AP) — The Air Force Academy is blaming car accidents and ill-prepared drivers for traffic jams that were so bad before and after the NHL's Stadium Series game at Falcon Stadium that some fans didn't enter until the third period. Several thousand fans among the sellout crowd of...
Third student-runner who was struck by speeding truck dies
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A third member of a suburban Oklahoma City high school cross-country team who was struck by a speeding pickup truck earlier this month has died. Kolby Crum, 18, died Saturday at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center, said hospital spokeswoman April Sandefer. Crum was among seven...
4 dead in crash on I-64 at Lake St. Louis
LAKE ST. LOUIS, Mo. (AP) — Four people died Friday when a pickup truck crossed a grassy median and drove into oncoming traffic on Interstate 64 near the town of Lake St. Louis, Missouri. Cpl. Juston Wheetley of the Missouri Highway Patrol told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that the accident happened about 11...
Mother of 3 kids killed in bus stop crash avoids charges
ROCHESTER, Ind. (AP) — A northern Indiana mother of three children killed as they were crossing a rural, two-lane highway to get on a school bus will not face charges for attacking the driver who had just been sentenced to prison for the crash, prosecutors said Friday. The office of Miami County Prosecutor...
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