Tag: killed
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One year after 4 Pepperdine students were killed in high-speed crash, sorority sisters push for change
Thursday marks one year since four Pepperdine University students were struck and killed in a high-speed crash along Pacific Coast Highway. On Oct. 17, 2023, Niahm Rolston, Peyton Stewert, Asha Weir and Deslyn Williams, were walking in Malibu towards a home on PCH to meet their sorority sisters when a car traveling at a high…
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At least 94 people killed after fuel tanker explodes in Nigeria
At least 94 people were killed and 50 others wounded when the driver of a fuel tanker lost control and it crashed and exploded in northern Nigeria on Tuesday, a police spokesperson said. The incident occurred in Majia town in the Taura local government area, about 330 miles north of the capital Abuja, spokesperson for…
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At least 1 killed and a dozen injured at Halloween party shooting in Oklahoma City
At least one person has been killed and a dozen others were injured at a shooting at a Halloween party in Oklahoma City Saturday evening, according to police. A “disturbance” ensued at the events center where the party was being held, leading to multiple shots being fired inside and outside the building, a spokesperson for…
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Man killed in Colorado mine accident identified as tour guide
The man who died in a Colorado mine elevator accident was a 46-year-old father and tour guide there, officials said Friday as investigators try to understand what exactly occurred. What Teller County Sheriff Jason Mikesell called a “very tragic accident” occurred as an elevator was about 500 feet down the 1,000-foot deep shaft at the Mollie Kathleen…
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Israel says it killed two Hezbollah commanders
Share IDF says it killed two Hezbollah commanders The Israeli military said Thursday that it killed Moustafa al-Haj Ali, a commander of the Houla Front in Hezbollah in strikes. Ali was responsible for hundreds of missile attacks towards northern Israel, the Israeli Defense Force added. The IDF also killed Mohammad Ali Hamdan, a Hezbollah anti-tank…
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Grazer beats the behemoth who killed her cub to win this year’s title
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — In a storyline better befitting a melodrama than a popularity vote, Grazer won her second Fat Bear Contest Tuesday by defeating the male behemoth that killed her cub this summer. Grazer beat Chunk by more than 40,000 votes cast by fans watching live cameras at explore.org of Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve. Fans cast votes…
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Two Chinese nationals killed in ‘terrorist attack’ near Karachi airport
ISLAMABAD — Two Chinese nationals were killed in an explosion near the international airport of the southern Pakistani city of Karachi on Sunday night, the Chinese embassy in Pakistan said, in what it described as a “terrorist attack.” In a statement emailed to journalists, separatist militant group Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed the explosion was…
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Ex-Virginia officer who killed shoplifting suspect acquitted of manslaughter, guilty of firearm charge
FAIRFAX, Va. — A jury on Friday acquitted a former police officer in Virginia of involuntary manslaughter after he fatally shot a shoplifting suspect outside a busy shopping mall. But the jury did convict the former police sergeant, Wesley Shifflett, of reckless handling of a firearm in connection with the shooting. Prosecutors argued that Shifflett,…
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Black bear killed while trying to get to pancakes along Tennessee highway
A black bear was hit by a car and killed on a Tennessee highway after it found a delicious snack on the side of the road while it was bulking up for winter, officials with the Appalachian Bear Rescue said on Facebook. The rescue group, or ABR, said it received a report of an adult…
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Bailey Sharp, 23, was killed after plotting California man’s murder; co-conspirators sentenced to life, as seen on Dateline
For years, Jeff Sharp often relied on the same refrain when he came upon an addict. It usually involved an expletive and a blunt question: Why do you keep doing it? Back then, more than two decades ago, Sharp — a detective with the Seattle Police Department’s gang unit — was on a bike patrolling high-drug…