U.S. says 82 youths have died in "choking game"
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At least 82 U.S. youths have died since 1995 engaging in "the choking game" in which they try to experience a fleeting "high" by cutting off the oxygen supply to the brain, U.S. health officials said on Thursday.
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Gangs of youths armed with machetes and clubs fought running battles with police on Sunday and burned tribal rivals alive in their homes in western Kenya, pushing the death toll from a month of escalating ethnic violence to nearly 800
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Rescue teams pulled two more bodies  from the rubble of China's worst coal mine disaster in years  but were struggling on Friday to reach 82 miners still trapped.  The gas explosion is known to have killed 66.
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Apparent tornadoes killed at least 13 people in Alabama on Thursday, including eight at a high school where students were trapped under a collapsed roof, state officials said. State Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman Yasamie Richardson said eight fatalities "are in relation to the high school but whether they are all students or some students and teachers we're not sure."
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Six teenagers were charged with homicide Thursday in the beating death of an eighth-grader who agreed to the fight as part of a gang initiation.
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PATTANI, Thailand  - Almost 80 people died of  suffocation in southern Thailand while being taken to detention  at a military barracks after a violent demonstration, a justice  ministry official said Tuesday.
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Congress passed legislation Thursday that sets aside &#36;82 million over the next three years for programs to help prevent youth suicide.
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Eight staff members of a Florida juvenile boot camp have been charged with manslaughter in the death of a 14-year-old boy whose beating by guards was captured on videotape, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
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U.S. Marshals delivering an eviction notice Wednesday found the decomposing bodies of four youths, ranging in age from 5 to 18, inside a home in one of this city's poorest areas, authorities said
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THURSDAY, Dec. 30 (HealthDayNews) --  More kids are heading toward heart trouble, the American Heart Association reported Thursday in its annual assessment of cardiovascular disease, the top killer in the United States.
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NEW YORK  - Between 1995 and 2007, at least 82 children and adolescents in the United States died as a result of playing the "choking game," according to a report released Thursday.
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Eighty-two people have died in a cholera epidemic in the Republic of Congo, according to figures from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
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Eight Dominican migrants died and 83 were  rescued on Friday when their overladen boat capsized in rough  seas off Puerto Rico, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
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A young mother who may have been depressed apparently hanged three of her small daughters and herself in a closet using pieces of clothing and sashes, authorities said Tuesday. A fourth child, an 8-month-old daughter, was also found dangling in the closet but was rescued from the family's mobile home.
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Four high school girls and a toddler were killed Friday when the vehicle they were riding in lost control and slid into the path of an oncoming tractor-trailer, authorities said.
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PATTANI, Thailand  - Almost 80 people died in  military custody in southern Thailand, suffocated while being  transported in trucks to army barracks after a violent  demonstration by Muslims, officials said Tuesday.
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Six teenagers were charged with homicide Thursday in the beating death of an eighth-grader whose head was rammed into a high school bathroom wall during a gang-related attack, authorities said.