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<p>A man trimming trees was killed after he apparently was pulled into a wood chipper, police said.</p> <p>The tree-service employee died Wednesday while he and a co-worker were cutting branches at a Loveland residence, Police Sgt. Rae Bontz said.</p> <p>"It appears he was pulled into the chipper," Bontz said. He described the death as an industrial accident but released no other details, saying police were investigating.</p>

GARY, Ind. -- An auxiliary police officer accidentally shot her fiance in the leg while defending herself from a charging pit bull, authorities said. The officer, Tracey Berry, will be required to be retrained on firearms, Deputy Chief Jeff Kumorek said Wednesday. Berry's police powers have been temporarily suspended in the meantime, he said. "Witness accounts support her statement that the dog was attacking her," Kumorek said. Berry was scheduled to work security for a basketball tournament Monday at Gary West High School and was walking toward the south entrance when a pit bull began running toward her, police said....

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Locking yourself out of your car is bad enough, but Jeanna Stewart was even more embarrassed when the culprit was not her, but her cat. The Morgantown resident said she was getting a spare house key out her car's trunk on Monday when her cat Mork, one of three in the car, stepped on the automatic door lock. She couldn't unlock the door because she had left her car keys on the driver's seat. "He wouldn't unlock the door for me," Stewart said Tuesday. "He was standing there, saying why aren't you opening the door? I want...

History lessons for British teenagers place too much focus on Adolf Hitler, according to a new report produced by the government’s curriculum watchdog. The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority annual report found that as a result pupils aged 14 and over were not getting a proper overview of history. The report stated: “There has been a gradual narrowing and ‘Hitlerisation’ of post-14 history. The option choices made by schools and colleges in GCSE and AS/A level mean that the content of post-14 history continues to be dominated by topics such as the Tudors and the 20th century dictatorships.” QCA Chief Executive...

New Delhi - A 30-year-old man who had both kidneys surgically removed in what may have been an illicit harvesting of his organs died in a hospital on Saturday in eastern India after struggling for three weeks to survive, officials said. Surendra Kumar, a motorised rickshaw driver, underwent surgery for appendicitis in early December at a private hospital in Mahnar, a small town in the impoverished Indian state of Bihar. Within days he developed complications and was brought to Patna, the state capital, for treatment where doctors in the government hospital found that both his kidneys had been removed, police...

(KUTV) An incredible and un-suspecting accident leaves a Utah Boy Scout just inches from death when he was stabbed right between his eyes. Jeff Jaeger spoke to Kevin Coulter and tells 2News how this was a truly freak accident. While raking leaves for a Boy Scout event, one of the leaders flung a knife from his hand while trying to catch another scout who had tripped. “It was dark, it was like 8:30 and there was a light and I saw it flash before it hit me,” said Kevin. The blade landed in between his frontal lobes. It was 2...

Relatives of Alistair Cooke, the late broadcaster, have spoken of their revulsion after it was found that his bones were cut from his body by a criminal gang and sold for transplant tissue. New York police said his body was one of dozens chopped up for profit by rogue morticians in Brooklyn. After presenting BBC radio's Letter from America for more than half a century, Cooke died in March last year of lung cancer, aged 95. The "body-snatchers", as the New York tabloids call them, surgically carved out his bones the day after he died, said the Daily News. His...

Calgary's top cop said he's not interested in turning the force into a money-maker, despite calls from city council to increase fine and other revenues within the service's budget. Chief Jack Beaton said it's unlikely the service will be able to meet council's $3-million revenue expectation next year -- more than $1 million more than what was projected. Aldermen approved the change in a 9-6 vote as they tried to find ways to cut millions from its 2006-08 budget, which calls for a 5.4 per cent tax increase next year. Beaton was disappointed with council's expectation of the police service...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. THEY were angry at how their mother's ex-boyfriend had treated her. So to teach him a lesson, not only did William Wilson and his older brother, Anthony, viciously beat up Mr Michael Tullet, they also gouged out his eyeball. But that's not the worst part - he was still alive when they did it. Last week, a British court sentenced William Wilson, 31, to life imprisonment for the murder of Mr Tullet, 53, reported BBC News. Anthony Wilson, 34, also pleaded guilty to assaulting Mr Tullet, before his brother killed him,...

A somewhat embarrassing situation for Salt Lake City police happened Friday after one of their patrol cars was stolen out of a driveway. The theft comes just days after the police department issued a reminder to residents not to leave their cars running and unattended. But police detective Kevin Joiner said the situation does provide the opportunity to once again emphasize the message. "If it can happen to a marked police car, it can happen to anybody," he said. "It's a lesson not to leave your car running, even for a second." An officer was leaving his Sandy house near...

SARASOTA— The Pelican Man's Bird Sanctuary in Sarasota is getting ready to release one buzzed bird back out into the wild. Vets at the sanctuary have been caring for a screech owl that was found acting a little odd. A couple purchased a Christmas tree and had it in the house for five days before decorating it. That's when the couple discovered a tiny screech owl in the tree. The couple called the sanctuary's rescue squad. But the story wasn't very interesting until Melissa Dolinsky began assessing the owl's health. "I kept smelling him and smelling him going, 'What is...

MARSEILLES, France -- Skirt-chasing playboy Daniel Anceneaux spent weeks talking with a sensual woman on the Internet before arranging a romantic rendezvous at a remote beach -- and discovering that his on-line sweetie of six months was his own mother! "I walked out on that dark beach thinking I was going to hook up with the girl of my dreams," the rattled bachelor later admitted. "And there she was, wearing white shorts and a pink tank top, just like she'd said she would. "But when I got close, she turned around -- and we both got the shock of our...

A medical recall is hitting home today, and the consequences have the potential to be deadly. A nationwide recall has been issued regarding bone and tissue products that have been used in transplantation. Those products have found their way into patients here in Central Ohio. Ohio-Health hospitals, which include Riverside Hospital here in Columbus, have been notified by the Federal Food and Drug Administration. Apparently products from a New Jersey company called Biomedical Tissue Services is accused of not following proper protocol when acquiring bone and tissue to distribute to hospitals for surgery. The bone and tissue products, which are...

A plane has apparently crashed through a fence at Midway airport in Chicago. Southwest airline 737 plane now sitting in intersection of 55th and Central. Channel 7 has confirmed, fire and ambulances on way. Details still sketchy.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Earth's north magnetic pole is drifting from North America at such a clip that it could end up in Siberia in the next 50 years, scientists said Thursday. Despite accelerated movement over the past century, the possibility that Earth's fading magnetic field will collapse or that the magnetic poles will flip is remote. But the shift could mean that Alaska may no longer be able to see the high-altitude shimmering displays of colorful lights called the aurora borealis, or northern lights. Scientists have long known that magnetic poles migrate and in rare cases, swap places. But exactly

LOS ANGELES -- A photographer being sued by Jennifer Aniston says he was trying to score pictures of the actress with Vince Vaughn, not topless pictures of her. Peter Brandt said he wishes "she hadn't just walked out topless." "That's not what I was looking for," Brandt added. Brandt said he took the pictures three weeks ago while standing on a public street in Los Angeles about 300 yards from Aniston's house. Aniston is seeking monetary damages and a court order to stop Brandt and anyone else from making money from the photos. Brandt said he has no intention of...

Five Deer Leap to Deaths From W.Va. Garage 2 hours, 53 minutes ago RANSON, W.Va. - Either they misjudged the distance or they couldn't take the traffic. For reasons that mystify authorities, five deer that made their way onto the top of a five-story parking garage suddenly leaped to their deaths Sunday. Police Cpl. Steve Cox found the does' bodies on a service road to the Charles Town Races & Slots, next to a security van they'd narrowly missed. "They took the plunge," he said. "It was just absolutely weird." A woman called police when she saw the deer falling,...

December 3, 2005 -- An alleged Bloods gang member — already a suspect in the death of his girlfriend and a plot to kill his stepfather — was charged yesterday with killing a Queens man over a cigarette. Devendra Singh, 26, allegedly gunned down Ryan Varma on Nov. 19 outside Mingles Bar on 101st Avenue. The wild shooting occurred hours after Varma, 27, innocently asked Singh for a cigarette, which police sources said made Singh feel "disrespected." "I would like to know why he did it, what's the cause?" Varma's father, Lloyd, told The Post. "I'm angry. Just for one...

The parents of a 10-year-old British boy who was killed while parasailing in Dubai yesterday described how their son had happily waved to them moments before a freak gust blew him into the minaret of a mosque. Tony Loyden, the couple's only child, died after the rope attaching him to a speedboat snapped and he crashed into the building. His parents, Tony and Patsy, were on the boat as the parachute became detached and their son drifted inland. The weather had initially been calm when the family began the trip at 9.15am.

It was a rainy day and a Monday that got one woman down. Five hours after she reported to work at her job in Des Plaines, she discovered her black 2004 Land Rover missing from a parking lot. That’s when she learned witnesses had reported seeing her vehicle sink to the bottom of the manmade lake outside the O’Hare Lake Office Plaza off I-294, about 15 minutes after she arrived to work in the rain. Investigators believe another vehicle rear-ended the Land Rover, sending it down a slope into the lake, Police Chief James Prandini said. Employees at the Federal...