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One woman died Thursday night and two others were injured as a car crashed into a tree off of Highway 67 north of Cripple Creek.
According to the Colorado State Patrol, a 54-year-old Colorado Springs woman was pronounced dead at the crash. The woman was the passenger in a 2002 Pontiac Sunfire driven by another Colorado Springs woman, 53-year-old Jeanette Calvillo.
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One person died and another was arrested in two motor-vehicle accidents near the Santa Fe Airport early Thursday, Sheriff Robert Garcia said.
Matthew Perea, 24, a La Cienega-area resident, died in one accident around 2:30 a.m. after he lost control of the 1998 Honda he was driving on County Road 56 and rolled over. He was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected from the vehicle.
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LONG BEACH - As federal investigators embarked Thursday on the long and arduous process of sifting through the charred wreckage of a small plane that crashed at the Long Beach Airport Wednesday, more details emerged about some of the victims lost in the fiery accident.
The Los Angeles County coroner's office also officially identified the dead Thursday as Thomas Fay Dean, 50, of Laguna Beach; Bruce Michael Krall, 51, of Ladera Ranch; Jeffrey Albert Berger, 49, of Manhattan Beach; Mark Llewllyn Bixby, 44, of Long Beach; and Kenneth Earl Cruz, 43, of Culver City.
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Rialto man shot dead on Thursday
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Turkish soldiers clash with rebels
ANKARA, Turkey - A clash in a forest left 13 Turkish soldiers and seven Kurdish rebels dead Thursday in the country's rugged southeast, the military said. The rare daylight violence was the deadliest attack on troops in more than three years.
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This week's smothering heat wave appears to have contributed to the deaths of a Memphis police officer and a city sanitation worker, Memphis Mayor A C Wharton said Thursday.
Officer Anthony Rahming, 48, was pronounced dead at 5 a.m. Thursday at Saint Francis Hospital, where he had been taken by relatives. He left work at about 7 p.m. Wednesday after becoming ill.
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Daryl Hawks, a Buffalo native who went on to become a popular television sports anchor and reporter, was found dead Thursday morning in his Atlanta hotel room, where he was covering the Chicago Bulls' NBA playoff series for the Windy City's NBC affiliate. He was 38.
It was not known what caused Hawks' death but Atlanta Police reported that foul play was not suspected. An autopsy is to be conducted by the Fulton County medical examiner.
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Investigators check a vehicle thought to be that of a man suspected of shooting five people Thursday in Yuma, Ariz., and the Wellton-Mohawk Valley. The man allegedly took his own life in the vehicle found in the desert northeast of Yuma. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
YUMA, Arizona - A 73-year-old man's shooting rampage in towns near the Arizona border left six people dead Thursday, including the suspect and the attorney who represented his ex-wife in their divorce.
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Tom Desjardin stopped dead in his tracks Thursday evening as he walked across the Colonial Pemaquid Historic Site. Pointing down to an ever-so-slight depression in the grass, he smiled.
This is the spot that has all of our attention this year," said Desjardin, a historian with the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands. "We think there's something going on here.
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Parents, 2 children found dead in home
MERIDIAN, Miss. - A father, mother and their two young children were found dead Thursday in what police say was an apparent murder- suicide at a small Mississippi home decorated for Christmas.