Swimmer, 77, believed killed in shark attack
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CAPE TOWN -- A great white shark estimated to be at least 18 feet long attacked and presumably killed an elderly South African woman yesterday off a beach near Cape Town, officials said. Tyna Webb, 77, who lived in the area, was swimming off Sunny Cove in Fish Hoek when the massive shark circled her and then attacked, witnesses and ...
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SARASOTA, Fla. - A 49-year-old man has been cited in the stabbing death of an alligator nicknamed "Elvis" by the residents of the golf club community the reptile called home.  The five-foot alligator was found dying in October with a hunting knife lodged in its head.
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The South Australian government has ordered that the great white shark responsible for killing an 18-year-old surfer yesterday be killed.
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All the way back to shore after an eight-foot tiger shark chomped into his left leg, Harvey Miller thought he might die. "I just remember saying, 'Oh God, not like this, no way,'" Miller said Friday, a day after the gray animal attacked him off Oahu's Bellows Beach.
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He died after a prolonged illness, family sources said. He was 80.
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Australian authorities have urged fans  of Steve Irwin not to attack stingrays after several rays were  found dead since the TV naturalist was killed in a rare fatal  attack by one of the normally placid animals.
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The Irish man killed in a drowning incident in Australia yesterday has been identified as a 23-year-old from Cork.
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THE father of teenage shark attack victim Nick Peterson said yesterday his son loved the ocean and had a zest for life. The 18-year-old was taken by a great white shark off West Beach on Thursday afternoon.
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NAPLES, Fla. - A blow to the head with a beer bottle may have saved Sally Hampton's life. While doctors were examining her after the barroom attack, they discovered a brain tumor that could have killed her.  The tumor was removed, and Hampton, 64, is fully recovered.
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Police say the death of a 90-year-old woman in her home in Swansea is being treated as murder.
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Steve Irwin, the quirky Australian   naturalist who won worldwide acclaim, was killed by a stingray   barb through the chest on Monday while diving off Australia's   northeast coast, emergency officials and witnesses said.
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Authorities said Friday they would kill the shark that tore apart a young surfer near a popular south Australian beach as his friends reportedly tried to save him by beating the animal with oars.
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By Josh Hoke, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Jun. 22--Ocean Isle Beach, N.C., police have ruled that a Tuesday drowning in the Shallotte Inlet was accidental.   Edward Lee Cox, 60, of Kernersville, N.C., drowned while he was surf fishing off the east end of Ocean Isle Beach, Lt.
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A 65-year-old from south central Kansas has died from West Nile virus, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said today.
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A young Australian surfer has been killed in a horrifying attack by two great white sharks at a popular Adelaide beach, the second fatal attack in five days, rescue officials and witnesses say.
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A woman whose body was found in a lake 21 years after she vanished had suffered a violent death, a court hears.
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Steve Irwin, the hugely popular television personality, was killed by a stingray while filming an underwater documentary.