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Woman killed in accident identified

Last updated Sunday, December 2, 2012 - 11:01pm

OGDEN — Police have identified a woman who was killed Saturday morning when her neighbor, who was backing out of a driveway, backed over her with her car.

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Woman dies in motorcycle crash

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, November 4, 2012 - 11:57pm

MOUNTAIN GREEN — A woman motorcyclist was pronounced dead near here Sunday afternoon in a single-vehicle crash.

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Victim in fatal Tuesday night crash identified

Jesus Lopez Jr. Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, October 3, 2012 - 10:55am

WILLARD — Officials identified the victim in a fatal traffic accident on Interstate 15 Tuesday Oct. 2, 2012 afternoon in the Willard area.

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Stalled motorist on I-15 leads to fatal accident near Brigham City

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, August 27, 2012 - 10:51pm

BRIGHAM CITY — A man was killed on Interstate 15 near Brigham City on Monday afternoon.

The accident happened around 1:30 p.m. after a stalled motorist slowed traffic on the freeway, said Utah Highway Patrol Cpl. Todd Johnson.

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Emergency crew members work the scene of an accident involving an ambulance from the North Davis Fire District and three vehicles at the intersection of Highway 89 and Sunset Drive in South Ogden Friday, July 6, 2012. Police said the ambulance was on Highway 89 transporting a patient to Ogden Regional Medical Center, driving with lights and siren, when a white Buick southbound on Sunset entered the intersection on a green light and was struck by the ambulance, which then struck two other vehicles. A female in the Buick was killed and several others were injured, including emergency personnel in the ambulance. (Erin Hooley/Standard-Examiner)

Ambulance-involved, four-vehicle accident: Friday, July 7, 2012

Erin Hooley, Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Friday, July 6, 2012 - 1:34pm

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This photo provided by the Philadelphia Fire Department shows Lt. Robert Neary, a 37-year veteran of the department who died while battling a massive blaze at an abandoned warehouse in Philadelphia on Monday, April 8, 2012. Neary, 60, and firefighter Daniel Sweeney, 25, were killed when an adjacent furniture store they were inspecting collapsed, burying them in a pile of debris, authorities said. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Fire Dept. via the Philadelphia Inquirer)

2 firefighters die in Philadelphia warehouse fire

Patrick Walters The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - 9:10am

PHILADELPHIA — Two firefighters battling a massive blaze at a vacant warehouse on Monday were killed when an adjacent furniture store they were inspecting collapsed, burying them in a pile of debris, authorities said.

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This undated photo provided by her family shows Ann Appel. Human remains believed to be Appel’s were found days after she called the Jefferson County 911 system, worried that smoke from a nearby wildfire in the foothills southwest of Denver. The Appel family said sheriff’s officials told them Appel didn’t receive an evacuation call because her property was listed at the wrong address in Morrison, where the family had never lived. (AP Photo/Family Photo)

Firefighters: Resident who died in Colorado fire was told to go

Dan Elliott The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - 9:05am

DENVER — One resident who was killed in a Colorado wildfire had been warned in person by a firefighter to evacuate, a fire department spokesman said Monday.

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Police investigate the scene where three people were shot and killed at an in-home day care in Brooklyn Park, Minn., on Monday, April 9, 2012. No arrests were immediately made. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Richard Sennott) MANDATORY CREDIT; ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; MAGS OUT; TWIN CITIES TV OUT where three people were shot and killed at an in-home day care in Brooklyn Park, Minn., on Monday, April 9, 2012. No arrests were immediately made. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Richard Sennott)

3 adults killed at Minn. day care; suspect sought

Amy Forliti The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, April 9, 2012 - 3:06pm

BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. — Three adults were killed early Monday at an in-home day care in a suburb northwest of Minneapolis, and a nearby college was locked down as police searched for a suspect who fled on a bicycle.

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Fatal ATV accident under investigation

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, April 8, 2012 - 9:32pm

JERICHO — An investigation is under way into an ATV accident in Juab County that killed a teenage boy from the Salt Lake City area.

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Somalis help a man wounded in a blast at the Somali National Theater in Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, April 4, 2012. An explosion Wednesday at a ceremony at Somalia's national theater killed at least 10 people including two top sports officials in an attack by an Islamist group on a site that symbolized the city's attempt to rise from two decades of war. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

2 Somalia sport officials among 10 killed in blast

Abdi Guled The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 10:27am

MOGADISHU, Somalia — An explosion Wednesday at a ceremony at Somalia’s national theater killed at least 10 people including two top sports officials in an attack by an Islamist group on a site that symbolized the city’s attempt to rise from two decades of war.

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Broken branches and household debris are scattered across a lawn early Wednesday morning, Feb. 29, 2012 in Harveyville, Kan., after an apparent tornado passed through the town Tuesday night. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback declared a state of emergency late Tuesday after a powerful storm system pounded the state's midsection. (AP Photo/Emporia Gazette, Matthew Fowler)

13 killed as tornadoes hit the Midwest

Jim Salter The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 11:32am

BRANSON, Mo. — A powerful storm system that produced multiple reports of tornadoes lashed the Midwest early Wednesday, roughing up the country music resort city of Branson and laying waste to small towns in Illinois and Kansas. At least 13 people were killed.

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Loriann Earp, center, cries with her husband, Justin Earp, on Wednesday. Feb. 22, 2012, in their home in Eagle Point, Ore., as they view photos of their daughter, Ashley Long, 14, who died after inhaling helium at a party. The Earps hope their daughter's death will help spread the word about the dangers of inhaling helium. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)

Teenage girl dies after inhaling helium at party

Jeff Barnard The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 11:16am

EAGLE POINT, Ore. -- Last weekend, 14-year-old Ashley Long told her parents she was going to a slumber party. But instead of spending the night watching videos and eating popcorn two blocks away, she piled into a car with a bunch of her friends and rode to a condo in Medford, Ore., where police say the big sister of one of her friends was throwing a party with booze and marijuana.

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Horse caused explosion in hyperbaric chamber

Jeff Weiner The Orlando Sentinel

Last updated Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 3:57pm

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Authorities have released their final report on the hyperbaric chamber explosion that killed a woman at a Marion County horse rehab facility this month, ruling the blast was an accident.

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Teton County Search and Rescue helicopter pilot Ken Johnson is assisted after being flown out of the Togwotee Pass back country in northwestern Wyoming near Jackson on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. A helicopter crash in remote northwest Wyoming has killed one of the three people aboard who were trying to help a snowmobiler, and sheriff's officials say the snowmobiler also has died. The snowmobiler's party had called for help Wednesday. Teton County sheriff's officials say the helicopter had reached them but was leaving to get more help when it crashed on Togwotee Pass. They say 63-year-old rescuer Ray Shriver was killed, and the pilot and another rescuer were taken to a hospital. Sheriff's officials say deputies reached the snowmobilers after tending to the helicopter victims, but 53-year-old Steven Anderson of Morris, Minn., also has died. Details of what led his party to call for help weren't immediately available. (AP Photo/Jackson Hole News & Guide, Bradly J. Boner)

Rescuer, snowmobiler killed when copter crashes

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 1:07pm

JACKSON, Wyo. -- Federal authorities on Thursday were investigating the crash of a search-and-rescue helicopter in northwest Wyoming that killed a volunteer crew member who was trying to help an injured snowmobiler who also died.

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