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Woman was wounded after falling in trash bin, which was then emptied into sanitation truck, and compacted up to four times. A New Hampshire woman was critically wounded after she fell into a large trash bin and then was tossed into a garbage compacting truck. A top emergency response official in the city of Manchester said crews were greeted with a remarkably unusual scene after the woman in question fell into an apartment complex’s garbage bin while taking out some trash. She stayed in the bin until a sanitation truck arrived to empty the contents of the bin.

CROZET, Va. (AP) — In a story Jan. 31 about a fatal train crash carrying dozens of Republican members of Congress, The Associated Press, relying on information from a congressman at the scene, misidentified who was killed in the pickup truck. It was a passenger who died, not the driver. A corrected version of the story is below: Train carrying GOP lawmakers strikes trash truck; 1 killed A train carrying dozens of Republican members of Congress to a policy retreat has slammed into a garbage truck in rural Virginia By ALAN FRAM and HEIDI BROWN Associated Press CROZET, Va. (AP)...

FULL TITLE: Bag Carrying Remains of Aborted Babies Fell Off a Garbage Truck, Witness Saw “Arms and Legs Flung Apart” The wonders of the Internet and saved stories hidden away on your hard drive. I was researching my response to yet another puff piece hailing abortionist Willie Parker when I read across a column I read a year or two ago. It was by Ross Douthat, a columnist for the New York Times, and the title of his superb piece was “Looking Away From Abortion.” Bless his heart, Mr. Douthat began his column with an excerpt from an essay that...

=San Jose's Garbage Trucks May Do Police Surveillance With License Plate Readers The government of San Jose, Calif. has come forward with a proposal to mount license plate readers to the city’s garbage trucks in an effort to expand police surveillance beyond department cruisers. Have no fear, innocent citizen, for the trash companies may be stepping up to help our friends in blue. San Jose, California happens to be America’s tenth largest city - that makes it pretty difficult for the police force to keep up with everybody. In a story by the local San Jose Mercury News, the new...

"HAMAS AND THEIR SYSTEMATIC VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAWS (NOT TO MENTION BASIC HUMAN DECENCY)" "Video follows"