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  • Brooklyn mother dies in fall from chairlift at Hunter ski area

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 44-year-old Brooklyn woman died of injuries suffered when she fell 25 feet from a chairlift at Hunter Mountain ski area in New York's Catskill Mountains, the Greene County coroner said on Monday. The woman, who was killed after she slipped from the lift on Sunday afternoon,…

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  • Australian teen killed in shark attack

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    The president's golf outing in Hawaii forced a pair of soon-to-be-newlywed U.S. Army officers to relocate their picturesque wedding.

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    What the Wreckage of AirAsia Flight QZ 8501 Can Tell Us

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  • Florida girl killed by falling tree

    TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - A 12-year-old Florida girl was killed when a tree supporting a hammock in her back yard fell on her, authorities said on Monday. Trinity Boothe's father heard a thud shortly after she went outside on Sunday afternoon to read a book in the hammock at the family's home in…

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  • Manziel rues conduct: 'I've done this to myself'

    BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Johnny Manziel says the party's over. The Browns want to believe him.

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  • Arrest warrant for ex-Korean Air exec in nut rage

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    Actor Dustin Diamond, accused of stabbing, appears in Wisconsin court

    Actor Dustin Diamond, who played the nerdy "Screech" on the sitcom "Saved by the Bell," appears in court in Wisconsin where he is accused of stabbing a man. Nathan Frandino reports.

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