2 dead in boat crash at western Pa. dam
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A motorboat crashed into a gate at a western Pennsylvania dam, killing two people, emergency dispatchers said.
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Troops and rescue workers used fishing nets Saturday to pull bodies from floodwaters after a dam burst in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 135 people, officials said. Elsewhere in Pakistan, weeklong rains and avalanches claimed the lives of about 143 people, emergency officials said.
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By Chris Pollock, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Jun. 2--There is such a thing as deadly heat, as the residents of Freemansburg found out firsthand over this week when more than 100 dead fish appeared at the northern end of the Lehigh Canal in the borough.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A gun battle and air strikes killed two dozen Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan, while more than 20 suspected militants drowned when Afghan forces sank their boat as they crossed a river trying to elude an attack, officials said yesterday.
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A small boat carrying eight people sank in a lake Wednesday, killing two children, authorities said.
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About 40 people were feared dead in flooding from a dam collapse in northwest Nigeria, state radio said Sunday.
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A corporate jet crashed on an island in the Missouri River shortly after taking off, killing two people, officials said.
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Two cargo boats sank in Thailand's Mekong River after the water level dropped sharply and exposed hazardous reefs.  The first boat, a Lao vessel, hit a reef and capsized, killing a man and his son, the Bangkok Post reported Monday.
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By Mike Archbold, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  May 30--A forecast of hot weather this week and two cold river drowning deaths over Memorial Day weekend are a cautionary tale for swimmers and boaters.
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By Don Springer  Warm weather has arrived. I know because the boat traffic has begun in earnest on Coal River. The water skiers are out and even the youngest of the young are wading or swimming in the waters.
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Two people are killed in a head-on car crash on the outskirts of Portrush in County Antrim
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By The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Mar. 13--A Lawrenceburg man drowned Monday after falling off a dock at Beaver Lake in Anderson County, according to the state Fish & Wildlife Resources.
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A helicopter used as an air ambulance crashed into a bay early Wednesday and two bodies were recovered, authorities said.
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Six people died and thousands  evacuated their homes in Pennsylvania over the weekend as  remnants of Hurricane Ivan deluged the state with up to 9  inches of rain, an emergency management official said on  Monday.
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GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. - A 62-year-old man from Phoenix died after his boat overturned on the Colorado River, a Grand Canyon spokeswoman said Wednesday.
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Two men are killed in an industrial accident at an open cast coal mine in East Ayrshire.
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By MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press Writer, The Associated Press. The spill _ the worst on the river in nearly a decade _ stranded commercial vessels trying to move goods through the busy Port of Philadelphia