According to dcourier.com, a woman from the New Jersey area was killed Wednesday afternoon when she crashed her rented ATV. Nadiya Zaverbna, 33, was riding the quad near Loy Butte trial, near Forest Road 525 with her fiancé, who was ahead of her on another rented quad, Dwight D’Evelyn, sheriff’s spokesman, said. Read article
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Sun-sentinel.com reports that Justin, a 32-year-old tourist from Orlando, had been inside Fat Tuesday’s bar on Duval St. in Key West when he slipped on a spilled drink around midnight last Thursday night, according to an incident report from the Key West Police Department. As another man, Eric, a 33-year-old tourist from Virginia, tried to […]
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The Mexican states of Chihuahua and Coahuila split the Mexican side of the border opposite of Big Bend, which lies entirely in Texas. The only Mexican border town in the area that registers on most maps is Ojinaga, which lies just to the northwest of the park. A few smaller towns dot the border on […]
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Kristv.com reports that a big increase in bacterial infections found in warm salt water has health officials on alert tonight. It’s called Vibrio Parahaemolyticus. You and your family could come in contact with the potentially dangerous bacteria. Justin Bovee and his son are enjoying a day at the beach, unaware that inside the water, they […]
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According to heraldonline.com, a 22-year-old North Carolina man has died in a kayaking accident on the Payette River in Idaho, north of Boise. Boise County officials say Eric Weigel of Asheville, N.C., was kayaking the North Fork of the Payette with two friends on Wednesday afternoon when he apparently flipped over and hit his head, […]
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Anchorage Daily News reports that a 66-year-old New Mexico cruise ship passenger was killed when a small sightseeing plane in southeast Alaska crashed on the side of a steep mountain, Alaska State Troopers said Wednesday. Thomas L. Rising of Santa Fe was among seven on board the Pacific Wings de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver that […]
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The Weather Channel reports that Tropical Storm Andrea, the first tropical cyclone of the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season, has formed in the Gulf of Mexico. Tropical storm warnings have been issued for parts of Florida’s Gulf Coast, including the Tampa Bay Area. Tropical storm watches are out for portions of the Atlantic seaboard. After moving […]
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NBC News reports that the U.S. government has declared the outbreak caused by the new Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) virus to be a public health emergency – not because it’s affecting the U.S. but to allow the quicker release of tests to keep an eye on it. The virus has killed at least 30 […]
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According to Kutv.com, a 70-year-old Utah resident is credited with saving a man from sliding down a steep ledge during a violent seizure. Bountiful resident Brent Anderson tells The Salt Lake Tribune he and his wife had stopped at a scenic overlook Monday in Zion National Park. Anderson said he’d been chatting with an Oklahoma […]
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Mirror.co.uk reports that a British man has died in a rock climbing accident in Yosemite National Park in the US. Felix Joseph Kiernan, 28, from London, was climbing on the East Buttress of El Capitan, a popular climbing route in Yosemite Valley, when he was struck by a rock at around 2pm (local time) on […]
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