Newlyweds, bride’s mom killed when 500-pound tubes fall off semi-truck in Colorado
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Newlyweds, bride’s mom killed when 500-pound tubes fall off semi-truck in Colorado

Honeymoon-bound newlyweds and the bride’s mother were killed Thursday when a semi-truck overturned in Colorado, sending its cargo of large plastic tubes across the highway. The tragedy unfolded shortly before 8:30 a.m. as Ruben Rodriguez and Juliana Rodriguez-Plata drove along Interstate 70 near Denver with their 1-year-old son and Juliana’s…

Florida SUV crash that killed nine comes after matriarch’s birthday
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Florida SUV crash that killed nine comes after matriarch’s birthday

The nine family members — including six kids — killed in a tragic car wreck Tuesday when their SUV careened off a Florida road into a canal were visiting the Sunshine State to celebrate the matriarch of the family’s 80th birthday. The 56-year-old SUV driver, Pamela Wiggins, revealed on social…

New Orleans Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick strikes two pedestrians with vehicle
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New Orleans Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick strikes two pedestrians with vehicle

New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick struck two pedestrians with her vehicle on Saturday night, injuring one of them, according to the police department. The incident happened around 7 p.m. Saturday at the intersection of Decatur and Iberville streets, police said, according to Fox 8. Both a man and a woman were…

Treasure hunter finds heartbreaking note buried at beach
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Treasure hunter finds heartbreaking note buried at beach

A metal detectorist thought they’d uncovered a unique trinket on an Oregon beach, only to realize that it was actually someone’s cremated remains. The devastated metal detectorist detailed the “sad but interesting find” in a post currently jerking tears on Reddit. According to the heart-rending post, the unnamed beachcomber was…

Seattle cop Daniel Auderer fired over ‘vile’ comments about grad student Jaahnavi Kandula killed in police cruiser collision
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Seattle cop Daniel Auderer fired over ‘vile’ comments about grad student Jaahnavi Kandula killed in police cruiser collision

SEATTLE — A Seattle police officer has been fired for making callous remarks about the death of a graduate student from India after she was struck last year by another officer’s vehicle in a crosswalk. Seattle interim police Chief Sue Rahr fired Officer Daniel Auderer on Wednesday for the comments…

University of South Carolina fraternity bus crashes in Mississippi injuring 11
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University of South Carolina fraternity bus crashes in Mississippi injuring 11

Eleven people were injured when a bus carrying University of South Carolina students blew a tire and hit a concrete barrier in Mississippi. Mississippi state troopers said the driver and a student were critically injured and taken by helicopter to hospitals after the crash Friday, while nine other students were taken…

63-year-old kidnap victim escapes trunk after car crashes into Seattle home
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63-year-old kidnap victim escapes trunk after car crashes into Seattle home

A kidnapping victim who was beaten, bound, and then forced into the trunk of his own car narrowly escaped after the suspected kidnappers crashed the vehicle into a residential home. The Seattle Police Department received multiple calls early Thursday morning that a car had crashed into a home in the…

Six dead after tour bus crashed head-on with freight truck in upstate New York
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Six dead after tour bus crashed head-on with freight truck in upstate New York

Six people were killed in upstate New York Saturday after a freight truck and a tour bus collided in what officials called a “gruesome” tragedy. As many as 15 people were on the bus when it collided head-on with the truck around 6:00 a.m. on State Highway 37 in Louisville,…