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Friday November 4, 2011       7:43pm EDT A former U.S. Army Ranger and Occupy Oakland protester was in intensive care on Friday after a veterans group said he was beaten by police during clashes with demonstrators this week. The veteran, identified as Kayvan Sabeghi, was the second former American serviceman during the past two weeks to be [...]

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November 1, 2011      12:13 pm In a crime that has shocked New Yorkers, two 12-year-olds allegedly dropped a shopping cart from four stories up, letting it fall on the head of a woman shopping for Halloween treats for underprivileged kids. She’s now clinging to life. Marion Salmon Hedges, 47, a successful Manhattan real estate agent, [...]

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November 1, 2011     9:04 am NASCAR team owner Rick Hendrick suffered a broken clavicle and rib, and his wife Linda had cuts and bruises, in the hard landing of their team’s business jet Monday night in Key West, Fla., Hendrick Motorsports said in an updated statement Tuesday. The team initially said only there were no [...]

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Oct 28, 2011       8:22 PM ET A Canadian aid worker was shot and another man killed while driving through a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Francklin Guerrier and the driver were attacked by people on a motorcycle, according to Radio-Canada correspondent in Haiti. The driver was killed. Guerrier, a Quebec retired lawyer, was shot in the [...]

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October 26, 2011      3:30 pm Occupy Oakland organizers are planning to hold a peaceful vigil Wednesday afternoon for Scott Olsen, 24, a former Marine who was injured during protests Tuesday night. Olsen served two tours of duty in Iraq and was hit in the head Tuesday by what may have been a tear gas canister, [...]

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Oct. 25, 2011       A 15-year-old girl who was shot in the neck while eating lunch outside of her Cape Fear high school wrote a note from her hospital bed today to tell her supporters that she loved them. Catilyn Abercrombie, who was shot by two classmates was described as a “fighter” by [...]

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8:51 PM EST    Tuesday October 18, 2011 In a voice alternating between desperate and hopeful, Qu Feifei talked to her daughter continuously Tuesday afternoon through a window left ajar at the main military hospital in this southern Chinese city. “Yueyue, give Mom another chance to love you, OK?” she finally begged, sobbing. On the other [...]

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11:14 AM EST      Saturday October 15, 2011   A cashier at a New York fast food restaurant has been charged with felony assault for beating two unruly customers with a metal object during an argument.The women remain hospitalized in serious condition, police said. The incident occurred at a McDonald’s on West 3rd Street about 12:30 [...]

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September 1, 2011     2:39 pm A logger who was trapped by logging equipment — alone and without cellphone reception — in the remote Colorado wilderness says he did what he had to do to survive: He used a pocket knife to cut off  his toes, setting himself free. John Hutt, 61, of Montrose, Colo., [...]

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August 18th, 2011 The brother and sister of a young mother who was gunned down while walking in a quiet New Jersey suburb raised questions today about their brother-in-law’s account of the shooting that killed his wife and left him wounded. “I hope he’s not involved,” Kaleem Noorani, the brother of murder victim Nazish Noorani, [...]

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8:50am UK, Thursday August 18, 2011 A gold medal-winning Paralympian is in a critical condition after being injured in a hit-and-run incident. Cyclist Simon Richardson was riding his bike near Bridgend when it is thought he was struck by a van. The 44-year-old was taken by air ambulance to hospital, where his wife said he [...]

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August 11, 2011   12:47 pm Actress/singer Miranda Cosgrove suffered a broken ankle Thursday morning when her tour bus crashed into an overturned semi in Illinois. The “iCarly” star will postpone her summer tour until further notice. Cosgrove, 18, was one of seven hurt when the bus hit the already-overturned truck on Interstate 70 near Vandalia, [...]

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August 8, 2011   10:54pm Singer Gavin DeGraw has been hospitalized after he was reportedly attacked by a group on a New York City street and suffered a broken nose and facial cuts, according to news reports. The cause of the attack, which occurred in the city’s East Village, is unknown. A representative for the 34-year-old [...]

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23 July 2011   10:22 ET An express train has derailed in eastern China, the country’s official news agency Xinhua says. Two of the train’s coaches fell off a bridge after derailing in Zhejiang province, local fire fighting sources were quoted as saying. It is not known if there any casualties. The train was travelling from [...]

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Maria Shriver (L) and son Christopher Schwarzenegger (R) attend the NBA basketball All-Star weekend in Los Angeles February 19, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Danny Moloshok   By Mary Slosson LOS ANGELES | Fri Jul 22, 2011 8:38pm EDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The 13-year-old son of former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his estranged wife, Maria Shriver, [...]

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July 20, 2011 Dez Heal, 13, of Lynchburg, Va., was rushed to the hospital with a bamboo stick impaled his neck. Dez had been playing a Ninja game with friends and “decided to put the bamboo stick in the back of my shirt,” he told ABC affiliate WSET-TV. “I guess when he jumped, the stick [...]

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07/3/11 10:34 AM ET A two-year-old Chinese girl left unattended fell 10 stories from her family’s apartment window and survived after being caught by a woman passing by, state media reported Sunday. The toddler was in critical condition Sunday with internal bleeding and other unspecified injuries while the woman who saved her suffered a broken [...]

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06/28/11 04:04 PM ET Two police dogs were found dead on Sunday after being locked inside an unventilated car on a hot day in London. An investigation has now been launched to determine how the dogs died. An officer (reportedly named Sergeant Ian Craven) is said to have forgotten about the Belgian Malanois and German [...]

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06/25/11 05:35 PM ET A standout Indiana high school basketball player with the promise of playing at the University of Michigan is fighting for his life after surviving the second plane crash of his young life. Austin Hatch, 16, of Fort Wayne, Ind., was in critical condition Saturday in a northern Michigan hospital after the [...]

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June 21, 2011 A fake Wild West gun battle staged for charity in South Dakota turned bloody when an elderly woman and two men in the audience were shot with real bullets. Carrol Knutson, 65, of Birchwood, Minn., told the Tuesday edition of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune that she was watching the summer attraction with her [...]

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