School bus catches fire outside Bangkok and 25 on board are feared dead, government officials say
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School bus catches fire outside Bangkok and 25 on board are feared dead, government officials say

A bus carrying young students with their teachers caught fire in suburban Bangkok on Tuesday with 25 of those on board feared dead, according to officials and rescuers. The bus was carrying 44 passengers from central Uthai Thani province to Ayutthaya for a school trip when the fire started around…

Wrong-way NYC driver who killed groom-to-be first hit off-duty cop: police sources
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Wrong-way NYC driver who killed groom-to-be first hit off-duty cop: police sources

A wrong-way driver first struck an off-duty NYPD officer before fatally plowing into groom-to-be Kirk Walker, law enforcement sources said. The cop called 911 after the early Saturday hit-and-run near Canal Street and chased after the driver’s pickup truck along the West Side Highway until he lost sight of it,…

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…

Flight data, voice recorders retrieved from Nepal crash site Nepal crash site
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Flight data, voice recorders retrieved from Nepal crash site Nepal crash site

A spokesman for Nepal’s Civil Aviation Authority says a flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder have been retrieved from the site of the crash of a passenger plane that went down on approach to a newly opened airport in the tourist town of Pokhara. Jagannath Niraula said the boxes were…