It is thought the crew were setting up when the accident occurred at around 4pm local time, an hour before the gates were due to open to let ticketholders in. The Downsview Park stage collapsed just hours before Radiohead were due to play Paramedics and police rushed to the scene, but they were unable to save one of the casualties. Read Article
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Edmonton Police said Travis Baumgartner was apprehended by U.S. border officials Saturday evening at the Lynden, Washington border crossing, south of Abbotsford, B.C. Edmonton Police Supt. Bob Hassel said Baumgartner was arrested driving the blue Ford F-150 truck that investigators had told the public to watch out for. Read Article
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Nearly a week after he disappeared beneath the waves of Lake Powell, the search continued Thursday for a 26-year-old swimmer. National Park Service spokesman Denise Schultz said searchers on shore and in boats were looking in the southern Utah lake’s Warm Creek Bay area, where 26-year-old Colby Roman, of Scottsdale, Ariz., slipped beneath the surface […]
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A North Carolina woman has died after her paraglide crashed into a cliff over a nudist beach in California. Pamela Hargett, 52, was paragliding with her boyfriend over Black’s Beach, a renowned nudist beach in San Diego, Saturday, when she abruptly hit. ‘For unknown reasons, she lost control and crashed into the side of the […]
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A night of partying in San Francisco turned awry early Saturday for a Canadian tourist, who was stranded in Vallejo, police said. Officers were dispatched at about 4 a.m. to the 7-Eleven store at 1208 Tennessee St. on a call of a “suspicious person refusing to leave” the area. Upon arrival, officers met with a […]
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A man visiting from Baltimore fell trying to cross the street in lower Manhattan and was fatally hit by a cab early Sunday, police and a witness said. Dan Fellegara, 33, was struck after he tumbled to the pavement while crossing against a red light on Sixth Ave. at Watts St. with two friends about […]
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California: Death Penalty will not be sought after for the fatal shooting of a German Tourist Prosecutors said Thursday they will not seek the death penalty against six people charged in connection with the fatal shooting of a German tourist near San Francisco’s Union Square last year. A total of seven suspects were arrested last […]
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Once again an annual, weekend-long motorcycle event involving tens of thousands of people culminates in violence. In Reno/Sparks last week, they experienced a gunfight, shooting into a crowd, a shooting death, gamblers and hotel guests diving under tables in a casino, a retaliatory drive-by shooting and a statement by a city mayor: Read Article
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Police are looking for a man believed to have stolen money from a wallet left behind by a tourist in the One Niagara Building on Rainbow Boulevard. The tourist said he accidentally left behind the wallet containing $2,000 in cash at a food stand counter at 8 p.m. Sunday. Read Article
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Imagine being on vacation in Hawaii and suffering a theft, a medical emergency or something even worse. That’s when the Visitor Aloha Society of Hawaii, which receives funding from the Hawaii Tourism Authority and through private donations, steps in to help. VASH says it has seen an increase in its caseload. Read Article
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