A helicopter crashed on an island off the Southern California coast earlier today, killing three people and injuring three others."The helicopter went down on the west end of Santa Catalina Island near Two Harbors,...
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"A Nashville, Tennessee, 911 operator has been fired after he was recorded saying that he didn't "give a s---" about what happened to a woman who had just called to report her ex-boyfriend was threatening her."
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Update:Police have moved in on the YFZ ranch after bringing out an additional 131 women and children, and are conducting a thorough search of the premises."Police called in ambulances and other emergency...
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"MILWAUKEE - Highways remained slippery for some holiday travelers Monday in the upper Midwest in the aftermath of a blustery snowstorm that blacked out thousands of homes and businesses and snarled air travel.
At least 19 deaths were linked to the weekend-long blast of ice...
"A large earthquake rattled Alaska's seismically active Aleutian Islands, but there were no immediate reports of any damages or injuries.
The magnitude-7.2 quake struck at 11:30 p.m. Tuesday and was centered about...
" March 18, 2007 Kentucky - Wilma Kathy Owen was probably asleep when the fire started in her home at 8265 Woodville Road shortly before 2:30 p.m. Friday, Deputy McCracken County Coroner Charles Offutt said. She may have awoken to the smell of smoke, he said. "But it was too...
" January 13, 2007 Pennsylvania - A former Carbon County 911 dispatcher charged with sending police and volunteer firefighters to a brush fire that never happened dodged a criminal record Thursday when he was placed on a probation-without-a-verdict program. Joseph D. Homanko...