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Taipei - Four Taiwan men involved in a car accident quit arguing about who was to blame after they discovered a numerology twist in their birthdates, a television channel reported on Tuesday. The four-car collision occurred on Monday evening in a highway tunnel in Chiayi County, west Taiwan. No one was injured in the accident, but when the four men went to a police station to file a report, they saw their birthdates were June 6, July 7, August 8 and September 9, TVBS reported. The succession of 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 and 9/9 was so unusual that the men forgot...

TRANSCRIPT By Keith Morrison Correspondent NBC News updated 9:09 p.m. CT, Mon., June. 11, 2007 This report aired on Dateline Monday, June 11 HOMER, ALASKA - It was the question that wouldn’t go away. The question that haunts many people even now. Lary Kuhns: People would ask, ‘Hey, whatever happened to that case with the lady on the cliff?’ Her name was Wanda — “the lady on the cliff.” Jay Darling: Everybody asked what happened. And everybody seemed to scratch their head when I said, ‘I don’t know’. Farrah Tittle: I dreamed about Wanda every single night. And in several...

PRAGUE (AFP) - An express train crashed into a collapsed road bridge in the Czech Republic on Friday killing at least six people and injuring 31, rescue services said. The train was travelling at about 140 kilometers (85 miles) an hour when it hit debris and derailed near Studenka in the northwest of the country, said a Czech railways spokesman. The locomotive and six passenger carriages came off the tracks and were left a mass of twisted metal. There were about 400 people on the train at the time, including a large group heading for a music festival in the...

At least a dozen people have been killed in a bus crash in Sherman, north of Dallas, this morning. Sherman police say the bus was heading north on Highway 75 when it ran off the highway near Park Aveneue a little before 1 a.m. A police department spokesman says they're investigating a report that the bus blew a tire but that has not been confirmed. The bus was apparently on its way from Houston to Missouri. An unknown number of passengers were hurt, some of them critically, and they've taken to area hospitals.

OGDENSBURG, N.Y. — A veteran state trooper and a civilian were electrocuted while fixing a flat tire on an antique fire truck when the truck's ladder touched a high-voltage power line, police said. AP via Fox 1 p rule

Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman has been injured in a serious car crash in Mississippi, according to TMZ.com. Police told the celebrity gossip site that Freeman was in a one-car accident about 11:30 p.m. Sunday near the small town of Ruleville and was airlifted from the scene.

Videos recorded by cameras in two Buffalo Grove squad cars show a U-Haul truck near the end of a wild police chase two years ago, veering from side to side in traffic and racing around street corners before a crash that killed a suburban teenager and injured two others.

A consulting company manager left his newly adopted son sitting in a sport-utility vehicle in a Herndon parking lot for much of the day Tuesday, killing the 21-month-old child, police said yesterday. The boy, Chase, was adopted three months ago from Russia, police said. Miles Harrison, 49, of Purcellville was charged yesterday with manslaughter. He faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.... Herndon Police Chief Toussaint E. Summers Jr. said Harrison was supposed to take Chase to day care. Instead, Harrison drove to work, and Chase sat in the SUV outside the building, in the 500 block of...

Motorcycle wreck that caused injuries, amputation also has Bartonville couple struggling to pay the bills BARTONVILLE — Since coming home from a nearly two-week hospital stay following a motorcycle accident, Thom and Pam Royster have spent most of each day in their bedroom, where they lie in comfortable darkness, surrounded by motorcycle memorabilia. They grimace when pain strikes. They console each other. They try to stay optimistic. Losing hope amid the compounding worries that have impinged their lives since the accident would be destructive. "We have to (be optimistic)," Pam, 41, said recently. "If I'm not confident, things will be...

A 17-year-old South Carolina boy on an church outing was killed Saturday when he was struck by the popular "Batman the Ride" at Six Flags Over Georgia. It was the second Batman ride-related death at the Cobb County park.

BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip - An explosion flattened a house in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing seven people. After blaming Israel and unleashing a barrage of rockets and mortars, Hamas suggested the blast was accidental, not an Israeli attack. By then Israel had carried out an airstrike aimed at a Gaza rocket squad, killing a Palestinian. The violence threatened to scuttle Egyptian cease-fire efforts as they approached the finish line. A key Israeli envoy, Amos Gilad, was in Egypt trying to wrap up a deal, but there was no announcement of results. An Israeli army spokeswoman said the military...

Bo (woof) In Commentary: Drugs. I don’t clearly remember how I’ve become addicted to them. It may have been my parents pushing them on me or maybe it was me demanding them. It’s all so hazy now. All I know is that I ‘need’ to have each and every one of my pills to keep me going every day. That’s why this story on an owner pilfering his dog’s drugs is so upsetting. (DES MOINES, Iowa - A Des Moines man who was arrested for driving while intoxicated apparently took his dog’s pills by mistake. Authorities say (con't @ http://boknowsonline.com/2008/06/02/478/)

MORRIS, Ill. (AP) — Police say a trailer loaded with 14 tons of double-stuffed Oreos has overturned, spilling the cookies still in their plastic sleeves into the median and roadway. Illinois State Police Sgt. Brian Mahoney says the truck's driver was traveling from Chicago to Morris on Interstate 80 around 4 a.m. Monday when he fell asleep at the wheel and slammed into the median. "The boxes came out of the trailer and boxes were ripped open," he said. The crash about 50 miles southwest of Chicago remains under investigation. Mahoney says no charges have been filed but both lanes...

Fight at scene of crash tragic, Circleville official says Dad charged with misconduct for wrestling with deputy as crews worked to extricate son Tuesday, April 22, 2008 7:52 PM By Randy Ludlow The Columbus Dispatch Adam Carter Adam Carter It unfolded March 25 along London Road in Pickaway County. Sixteen-year-old Adam Carter was driving to school when his car crossed the centerline and collided head-on with a dump truck. Paul Carter soon arrived. As he ran toward his son's crushed car, he was intercepted by Sgt. Cory Bachnicki. Bachnicki said he told the man to stay back, to let the...

A great inside look at a Pentagon after-action report on that embarrassing nuke flub where the Air Force flew a couple doomsday weapons across the US without even knowing it. Let's hope this report doesn't just collect dust on some general's shelf and that the recommendations are actually implemented. From our friends at Popular Mechanics: One might think that the United States' nuclear weapons -- the cornerstone deterrent in the country's arsenal -- would be treated with the utmost precision. This comfortable illusion was shaken on Aug. 31, 2007, when crews loaded six live nuclear warheads onto a B-52 bomber...

Train Blocks Chili Avenue by Rich Turner Published Mar 24, 2008 A disabled train has Chili Avenue blocked at the 3300 block, near Old Chili-Scottsville Road. The train hit a boulder on the tracks, causing

A woman who identified herself as Alianiss Nunez Morales was driving a van that failed to stop at a stop sign, hitting a school bus, police say. A woman who identified herself as Alianiss Nunez Morales was driving a van that failed to stop at a stop sign, hitting a school bus, police say. MINNEAPOLIS — A woman who authorities say is in the country illegally and using an alias was charged Friday with four counts of criminal vehicular homicide and two lesser charges in a school bus crash that killed four children. A woman who identified herself as Alianiss...

John McCain says he does not listen to Rush Limbaugh and does not expect his endorsement. But here is McCain's quote of the day that probably won't endear him to many conservatives: "I don't listen to him [Rush] very much. There's a certain trace of masochism in my family, but not that deep."

An Illinois man on Monday was pulled from his van minutes before two trains smacked into it, crushing it into pieces. The 75-year-old mistakenly turned onto the tracks, and while police were trying to remove the car a nearby man noticed what was happening and got him off the tracks just in time, MyFoxChicago reported.

Two private planes flying about a mile from an airport collided Sunday, killing at least four people and raining debris down on car dealerships below, authorities said. The small Cessnas collided at 3:35 p.m. near the small Corona Municipal airport and a freeway in Riverside County, about 45 miles southeast of Los Angeles, FAA spokesman Allen Kenitzer said. Three of the dead were from the planes and the fourth was in a car hit by debris on the ground, Kenitzer said. Debris fell on car dealerships, and television pictures showed that the smashed fuselage of one of the planes landed...

LONDON — A passenger jet landed short of the runway at Heathrow airport on Thursday, forcing Prime Minister Gordon Brown to delay his trip to China as his plane was on the runway waiting to take off. Three people were reported injured. Brown's plane was not involved but those on board could see the incident in the distance.

MEXICAN HAT, Utah—A chartered bus ran off a wet road and rolled 41 feet down an embankment in far southeastern Utah, killing eight passengers who were returning home from a ski trip, authorities said Monday. About 20 others were injured. The Arrow Stage Lines bus was southbound on State Route 163 when it failed to negotiate a curve, went off the road and rolled over several times at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, said Trooper Cameron Roden of the Utah Highway Patrol. "When the vehicle was overturning, the roof of the bus split open and multiple occupants of the vehicle were ejected,"...

The 911 call Wednesday morning started simply enough. The caller, a 52-year-old employee of Alamo Concrete, gave the address of the company east of Manor. Gasping, he struggled to give the phone number. Then, he blurted out what was wrong: "I have my arm cut off, ma'am. I have my arm cut off." The man's arm was amputated at the elbow after it became stuck in a conveyor belt of a machine at Alamo Concrete, said Warren Hassinger, spokesman for Austin/Travis County Emergency Medical Services. Officials released a recording of the 911 call later Wednesday. The man, whose name was...

VICTORIA, Texas - A tour bus and a pickup truck collided on a highway early Wednesday, killing one person and injuring nearly 50 others, at least nine of them critically, authorities said. The crash happened about 4 a.m. on U.S. 77, four miles south of Victoria. A Texas Department of Public Safety dispatcher in Corpus Christi confirmed there had been a crash but had no details. But Victoria radio station KTXN-FM reported that first responders found the bus on its right side across the highway's northbound lanes. Vance Riley, Victoria's fire chief, told the station that the bus was bound...

A 23-year-old woman who was presumed dead and left untreated for two hours in the wreckage of a car crash died the next day from her injuries, officials said. Erica N. Smith died Monday afternoon at Brooke Army Medical Center after suffering a head injury in the Sunday morning crash. Paramedics covered Smith in a yellow tarp in the wreckage, the typical procedure when someone is killed, before an investigator for the medical examiner's office arrived at the scene and made the startling discovery that she was still alive, officials said. ``It is unfathomable to me that my little cousin...

LOWELL, Mass. -- A local dog owner is devastated after her dog was shot and killed. Michelle Verville was walking her dog, Smokey, in the Lowell-Dracut State Forest last week when she heard a gun shot. Smokey, a 4-year-old Labrador retriever, yelped and Verville noticed that her dog had been shot in the stomach. "I just stayed there with him and told him that it was ok, and that we loved him and that he was a good dog, and then he passed," Verville said. it is legal to hunt for deer in State parks from Nov. 26 to Dec....

Fresno police say Jen was either jogging or walking quickly when she was hit by a pickup driven by officer Craig Howard, 39, of Fresno, who had just finished a 10-hour shift at 7 a.m. The accident was reported 10 minutes later.

MAYBROOK, N. Y. - The pilot was killed and two passengers injured in the crash of a single-engine plane in the woods near Stewart International Airport early Wednesday, authorities said. The plane lost contact with controllers before 2 a.m. when it was attempting a second landing at the airport following a failed first approach, FAA spokesman Jim Peters said. State Police said one of the passengers called 911 after the crash. Rescuers found the wreckage hours later. Pilot Brian H. Early of Radnor, Pa., was found dead, police said.

Tuesday/Wednesday, November 13/14 - about 4 a.m. Sources inside and outside Iran. A series of explosions rocked the Parchin Military Site (where missiles, including "cruise" type missiles, are manufactured) at Varamin south of Tehran. The Shahab 3, 4 and more recently Shahab 5 solid fuel missiles at the site are hidden in old salt mines in the mountain face in the area, further excavated and furbished for development and manufacture. The main purpose of this Ministry of Defense site, established by the late Shah's father - Reza Shah Kabir - in the early 1900's and taken over by the IRGC,...

SOUTHWORTH, Wash. - A man tired of fighting a stubborn lug nut blasted the wheel with a 12-gauge shotgun, injuring himself badly in both legs, sheriff's deputies said. The 66-year-old man had been repairing a Lincoln Continental for two weeks at his home near Southworth, about 10 miles southwest of Seattle, and had gotten all but one of the lug nuts off the right rear tire by Saturday afternoon, Kitsap County Deputy Scott Wilson said. "He was bound and determined to get that lug nut off," Wilson said. From about arm's length, the man fired the shotgun at the wheel...

PONTIAC - Livingston County authorities are investigating a gruesome and bizarre death today. A bystander in a parking lot in the 1000 block of West Reynolds Street called 911 about 4:30 a.m. today to report a tow truck driving erratically across two parking lots before it hit a sign and continued across a road into a ditch. When police arrived and inspected the vehicle, they found a decapitated body inside. They then found a human head in the parking lot where the caller first noticed the truck.

Woman injured in crash on Route 202 By John Pirro staff writer Article Last Updated: 11/05/2007 04:19:06 AM EST WASHINGTON, Conn.-- A Torrington woman was seriously injured when her car ran off Route 202 Sunday morning and hit a utility pole. Elizabeth Stimson, 38, was taken by LifeStar Helicopter to Hartford Hospital after the 10:02 a.m. accident, where she was being treated for head injuries, state police said. Stimson, who was driving a 1995 Honda Passport, was headed west when her vehicle ran off the right side of the road, flattening about 100 feet of guide wire, before it hit...

October 31, 2007 - A fourth person is dead because of a grinding crash Monday night in Newark. Delaware State Police investigators report the driver of the Honda, Matthew Wilson, 23, died Tuesday night because of his injuries. The sole survivor of the BMW, Hector Villa Gran-Merida, 18, is out of a coma, but still in critical condition. The driver of the BMW, Israel Palmero Merida, 17, did not have a drivers license. Police believe drunk driving and speeding led to the horrific crash that killed four people and critically injured one other in Newark, Delaware Monday night. Around 9:45...

LANCASTER, Calif. — A blinding sandstorm caught dozens of vehicles in a highway pileup Tuesday in the high desert north of Los Angeles, killing at least two people and injuring 16, authorities said.

Authorities were working Monday to learn the identities of a number of survivors who apparently walked away from this weekend's fiery crash in an Interstate 5 truck tunnel, and, as far as officials are concerned, disappeared into thin air. At least nine unaccounted-for drivers are presumed to have been in the tunnel at the time of the massive chain-reaction crash that temporarily severed California's primary north-south traffic artery Friday night.

Two tractor trailers crashed and exploded into a ball of fire on Route 78 in Springfield, New Jersey Monday afternoon. The New Jersey State Police report that both drivers were trapped in their trucks. There are unconfirmed reports that both drivers died in the accident. Flaming debris was spread across the express and local lanes. The incident happened in the eastbound local lanes near Route 124 at mile marker 50. All Eastbound lanes are closed. The fire department expects a lengthy clean-up that will affect the evening rush hour. The Star-Ledger reports that traffic is being diverted off the road...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The basket of a hot air balloon tipped after the craft got stuck, sending a female passenger on a 60- to 70-foot fall to her death Monday, state police said. The balloon snagged a fiberoptic line running above a power line about 8 a.m. during an annual balloon festival. The pilot threw down a tether to a pickup truck on the ground to reel the balloon down and free it, state police spokesman Andrew Tingwall said. But the tether broke, and the balloon flew back up, causing its gondola to tip and the woman to fall to...

Video at Link: http://www.local12.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoId=20523 An overturned semi-truck spills rotten hot dogs, sausages, and other processed meat on I-471 South this morning. The accident happened just south of the Southgate exit. Southbound lanes were shut down for hours as crews worked to clean up the mess. No one was hurt in the crash. The truck appears to belong to Griffin Industries, which is headquarted in Cold Spring and bills itself as the largest independent, privately-owned animal and bakery by-product recycling company in North America.

A special effects technician working on the new Batman film was killed when a vehicle he was in crashed while on a stunt test run. The accident happened off-set and there was no filming taking place, movie company Warner Bros Pictures said. The victim was on a camera truck which was following a stunt vehicle, believed to have been the Batmobile. An ambulance spokeswoman said he was pronounced dead at a test track in Longcross, near Chertsey, in Surrey. Warner Bros said in a statement: "There was a fatal accident at a special effects facility for Batman: The Dark Knight....

MOSCOW, Idaho -- A driver of a sport utility vehicle who hit a telephone pole blamed the crash on two friends having sex in the back seat. Joshua D. Frank, 22, pleaded guilty this week to a misdemeanor charge of failing to notify a police officer of a traffic accident. He was fined nearly $190 after his Chevy Blazer hit a telephone pole in the Moscow, Idaho, area. According to court documents, Frank told police that his SUV is top heavy and the backseat action made it become "tippy," causing him to lose control. According to the affidavit, Frank suffered...

By LUKE SALKELD - More by this author » Last updated at 01:12am on 4th September 2007 When a pedestrian was hit by a police car which mounted the pavement, it was obvious who was going to come off worse. After suffering a broken foot in the collision, however, Daniel Horne thought all the damage had been done. Until he received an £80 fine - for denting the vehicle. Yesterday the 28-year-old businessman told of his shock at being penalised for being hit by the marked car. Mr Horne had been walking home in June when the marked police car...

MUSKOGEE — The Muskogee High School head football coach pleaded no contest this morning and was fined $500 to a charge stemming from an accident with a 7-year-old boy. Matt Hennesy was charged this morning in Muskogee County District Court with misdemeanor failure to report a personal injury accident, District Attorney Larry Moore said. The accident involved Chase Thornton, 7, who was on his bicycle and suffered a broken collar bone. Hennesy, 39, will also pay court costs. He could have faced up to 10 days in jail. "It's not anything egregious in nature,” Moore said. "He just didn't comply...

Tony Thornton Staff Writer MUSKOGEE — In normal circumstances, tonight's game between two of the state's top football teams should be capturing all of Muskogee football coach Matt Hennesy's attention. Instead, he was dealing with the fallout from a Thursday evening accident in which a 7-year-old boy's bike ran into the coach's car, which was pulling to a stop before leaving a parking lot. The boy, Chase Thornton, suffered a broken collarbone, a knot on his head and road rash on a leg and shoulder. The coach suffered a sullied reputation. A story in Friday's Muskogee Phoenix quoted Hennesy as...

HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. -- An auxiliary officer for a local police department was killed when a machine gun discharged at a private gun show in Blair County...

An Indiana mom attempted to outrun a freight train at an intersection but didn't see a train approaching from the other direction and crashed, killing two of her children, police said. Authorities released a video showing Edie Bolanos attempting to outrun an eastbound train in her minivan by cutting through a parking lot and making a quick turn. "It seemed that she [Edie Bolanos] was so intent on beating the eastbound train, she never even saw the westbound train that hit her," Hammond Police Sgt. Michael Jorden said. Two of Bolanos' children, Crystal, 11, and Anahi, 8, were ejected from...

One Girl Dead, One Injured After Falling In Arizona Mine Shaft, Two girls riding an all-terrain vehicle fell into a mine shaft, killing one while the other remained trapped overnight, authorities said Sunday.

A terrible crash occured at the Radom air show in Poland. Two aircraft from the air group "Zelazny" collided while performing a dangerous maneuver, where three aircraft separate, then turn around to fly at each other, and pass each other with hardly any space between them. Two pilots died in this terrible crash: Lech Marchelewski and Piotr Banachowicz. May God give them peace. Here is a video of the terrible incident: http://kubus172007.wrzuta.pl/film/5eqSwZnPZX/air_show_radom_2007_-_ku_pamieci_pilotow_ktorzy_zgineli

Chicago Bears linebacker Lance Briggs was charged with leaving the scene of an accident after crashing his Lamborghini and abandoning it alongside an expressway on the city's North Side, Illinois State Police said. After meeting with police Monday afternoon, Briggs was also cited for failure to give immediate notice of an accident and improper lane usage, said Master Sgt. Luis Gutierrez.

Great vid of terrorist accidentally blowing himself up!

In one of the more despicable acts committed in this Washington, DC-sanctioned illegal alien disaster that plagues our country and all law-abiding citizens within it, today in Sanford, North Carolina, an illegal alien named Pastor Rios Sanchez, killer of three American children, will be offered an opportunity to walk away from the responsibility he bears for this dreadful and tragic crime. Lee County Assistant District Attorney Mike Beam, in a shameful and disgusting act that will be repudiated by all decent Americans, plans to offer Rios a chance to plead guilty to three counts of mere involuntary manslaughter and face...