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he devoted older brother of a dying Dorchester teen fulfilled a promise to join his little brother on his journey into eternal life when he died Tuesday in a motorcycle accident just hours before a brain tumor claimed his kin. William Davulis, 26, the eldest of 10 children, was on his way to say goodbye to his younger brother, Dominic, 17, when he lost control of his motorcycle at the intersection of East First and O streets in South Boston at about 4:35 p.m. “William wasn’t expecting to see God. He was expecting to see his dying brother,” said the...

I'm not very good at this sort of thing, and don't participate very frequently, but I have a friend and co-worker whose family needs all the help they can get right now.The Jansen family of Albuquerque lost their oldest daughter Sarah yesterday at the age of 11.Sarah was the eldest of three children.Her death was initially reported as a drowning at a health club pool.Very preliminarily, it appears it was not that, as she was a competitive swimmer.Preliminary autopsy indicates a thoracic tumor in or near the heart, which triggered either an aneurysm or nerve confusion following impact from a...

MILFORD - Utah Highway Patrol troopers had blocked off part of a remote Millard County highway Wednesday so owners of exotic sports cars could slam on the gas pedal and leave those 65 mph speed limit signs in the dust. Mercedes, Jaguars, Vipers, Porches and more were zipping along State Route 257 - all for charity - when the four-day Utah Fast Pass Road Rally took a dangerous turn. Provo resident Richard Losee lost control of his $1.3 million Ferrari - which had been screaming along at close to 100 mph - and crashed 28 miles north of Milford in...

Suffer the Little Children to Come Unto Me"And they brought young children to Him, that He should touch them: and His disciples rebuked those that brought them. But when Jesus saw it, He was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God." (Mark 10:13-14) Jesus did not say suffer the children to come unto Him, except those born to Muslim parents. Remember the children of Beslan, Russia? The people to blame for this morning's tragedy are the Islamofacist ADULTS, men who commit...

Exclusive An ambulance racing to get a heart attack victim to the hospital was snagged in Big Dig tunnel gridlock, turning what should have been a four-minute trip into a desperate 24-minute ordeal that ended with the man’s death, public safety and transportation sources said. (snip) A police escort led the ambulance through the westbound Ted Williams Tunnel and onto surface streets through South Boston, a transportation source said. A public safety source said, however, that due to gridlock in the westbound side, the ambulance was led through the eastbound side of the I-90 Seaport connector tunnel, which was closed...

Tragedy on the Araxes June 30, 2006 by Sarah Pickman A place of memory is wiped off the face of the Earth. Khachkars of the Djulfa cemetery, c.1987 (Courtesy of Research on Armenian Architecture) On the banks of the River Araxes, in the remote, windswept region of Nakhichevan, is a small area of land known as Djulfa, named for the ethnic Armenian town that flourished there centuries ago. Today, Nakhichevan is an enclave of Azerbaijan. Surrounding it on three sides is Armenia, and on the fourth, across the Araxes, is Iran. Hundreds of years ago, almost all of Djulfa's residents...

As we watch the tragicomedy in the U.S. Senate on immigration reform, it behooves us to hark back to the last time the Senate debated major immigration reform. It was in 1985. Why does it behoove us to learn this history? Because the promises being made today are exactly the same promises made back then. The bill that the Senate produced in 1985, which became law in 1986, was ambitiously titled the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA). It is probably the most fraudulent legislation in American history, for it neither reformed nor controlled immigration. In fact, it actually exacerbated...

An American teen wounded in a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv last month died Sunday of organ failure, a hospital spokeswoman said.

The husband of a woman accused of killing her 22-month-old son at a Maplewood homeless shelter last week stood by his wife Wednesday, saying she was depressed and in need of psychiatric care.

Wofford allegedly told a Maplewood police officer the child resisted taking a nap so she placed him face down on a bed, then sat on him. "The defendant stated that after she got off ... he never moved from the face down position," the complaint states.

In an effort to jump-start her sputtering Senate campaign, Rep. Katherine Harris went on national television invoking the memory of her late father and saying the money he left her will form the financial foundation of her challenge to Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson. Now the Harris campaign says that's not the case. Campaign spokeswoman Morgan Dobbs said Thursday that Harris will sell her existing assets rather than rely on money from her father, a bank executive who died in January. The Republican from Longboat Key appeared on national television saying she would use the money left to her by her...

ALAMO, Nev. - A minivan collided with an oncoming semi-truck along a rural highway in southeastern Nevada Saturday, killing the van's pregnant driver and five children, the Highway Patrol said.

Motorcycle wreck kills man while wife at dead father's side By Marty Roney Montgomery Advertiser PRATTVILLE -- A 45-year-old Prattville man died in a motorcycle accident Tuesday morning, minutes after his father-in-law died of natural causes. Mike Lucy was killed when the motorcycle he was riding struck a tree near the intersection of Washington Ferry Road and Rice Street in Prattville, according to accident reports. Lucy's father-in-law, hospice patient Joe Stalnaker, died at his Reynolds Mill Road home about 6:30 a.m., said Autauga County Coroner Billy Brown. Lucy's wife, Barbara Lucy, was with her father when he died. "She loses...

6 Kids Burn to Death in Poland Six children aged between seven months and sixteen years died as a fire broke out in their house in Poland. The fire broke out in the morning and spread quickly through the house in the village of Kiniki, about 80 kilometers northwest of Warsaw. The reasons for the fire are still unknown.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2006 – The violence in Iraq over the past week has been tragic and has caused tension throughout the country, but ultimately it will inspire Iraqis to unite and form a strong government to defeat the terrorists, a top U.S. official said yesterday. "The interesting point here is what conclusions the communities draw from this difficult week," national security adviser Stephen Hadley said on CBS' "Face the Nation." "They've stared into the abyss a bit, and I think they've all concluded that further violence, further tension between the communities, is not in their interest." Violence erupted in...

Polish sorrow for Moscow roof tragedy 23.02.2006 Polish president Lech Kaczynski has addressed condolences to the Russian people in a message sent to president Putin in connection with the collapse of a market hall in Moscow. According to initial reports the tragedy has claimed 49 lives and left 31injured in hospital. President Kaczynski wrote in the message that the news about the catastrophe has caused deep sadness among Polish society, which fully understands the shock, having experienced a similar tragedy just weeks before. After the cave in of the International Fair Hall in Katowice, where 65 people were killed, Russian...

Relatives wait for news of loved ones Reuters Chorzow: Distraught relatives gathered in sub-zero temperatures yesterday at the site of a collapsed exhibition hall in Poland to discover whether their loved ones were among the dead pulled from the rubble. Hopes were fading that any more survivors would be found in the wreckage of the hall, which had been staging an event for international pigeon enthusiasts when the snow-laden roof collapsed on Saturday. After a night in which temperatures plunged to 15 Celsius emergency services said they were shifting their focus from rescue efforts to clearing the rubble. "I was...

LAKE BUTLER, Florida (Jan. 26) - A car full of siblings headed home was crushed between a truck and a stopped school bus, killing the seven adopted children just two miles from where they lived.

LAKE BUTLER, Fla. -- A family reeling from the deaths of of seven children in a fiery crash on a Florida highway Wednesday afternoon was struck with more tragedy when the children's grandfather suffered a heart attack and died. Upon hearing the news that all of his grandchildren were killed when a semi smashed into the family's car that had stopped for a school bus, Edwin Scott started feeing sick and vomiting. The children of both of his daughters were killed. Relatives called an ambulance, but family members believe he died on the way to the hospital. "We lost my...

<p>Bodies found very near the original point of the conveyor fire.</p>