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The Hickory bridge had been inoperative for about nine years, and any barricades had been washed away ... A North Carolina man is dead after his GPS led him to a defunct bridge that dropped off into a creek on Sept. 30. Phillip Paxson, a 47-year-old father of two girls, had been driving his Jeep at night from his oldest daughter's birthday party in Hickory when his GPS led him to a bridge that has been inoperative since heavy flooding in July 2013 destroyed it. "It was a dark and rainy night and he was following his GPS which led...

Imagine nearly getting married to a stranger instead of the love of your life. A glitch in Google Maps led a man in Indonesia, who was making his way to his wedding, to the wrong venue on April 4. Read the condensed version of this story, and other top stories with NewsLite. Coincidentally, an engagement was taking place that day in the same village in Central Java. The groom and his entourage were exchanging gifts with the 'bride's' family when someone realised they had entered the wrong home. He apologised for the mix-up and was led to the right place...

San Francisco — Google officials said Monday that the company will replace a satellite image that a Richmond, California man says shows the body of his slain 14-year-old son. Kevin Barrera was shot and killed on Aug. 15, 2009 near railroad tracks in North Richmond. Unbeknownst to the police and homicide detectives that swarmed the scene, a satellite photo was taken that day — a photo that has since been used as the Google Maps image of the area. KTVU first reported that his father, Jose Barrera, learned of the image only a few days ago. It shows a body...

At http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/11/electoral-map-2.html is a very nifty interactive Google map showing county-by-county eletion data for the entire USA. I don't know who put this thing together (it's not clearly attributed) but I ran across it this morning and it's rather neato. Rather than me saying to much about it, just give it a try. It's a fun diversion (well, maybe) from the torrent of mea culpas today.