Law Limits Charges in Boat Tragedy: Ethan Allen's Pilot, Owner Face Only Misdemeanor Counts in 2005 Sinking
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By Leigh Hornbeck and Kenneth C. Crowe II, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Feb. 6--QUEENSBURY -- In law, there is only fact, not what could have been or should have been.
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A 67-year-old pilot whose small plane crashed in the Pacific was spotted treading water about eight hours after his aircraft went down, and a rescue ship was on its way, Coast Guard officials said Tuesday.
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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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By Christian Berg, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Sep. 18--On Sept. 8, a Lehigh County jury found a North Whitehall landowner partly responsible for injuries to a woman who was hit by a stray bullet fired by a hunter on his property.
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Ice on wings may have caused Ebersol crash: Investigators said yesterday they were looking into whether ice on the wings or a mechanical problem contributed to the fiery crash of an executive jet that killed the 14-year-old son of NBC Sports chairman Dick
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MONTROSE - The performance of a small jet that crashed and burned on takeoff Sunday morning at the Montrose Regional Airport, injuring NBC Sports Chairman Dick Ebersol killing three others including his son, will be probed, a federal investigator said
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A U.S. Marine captain has been told that he will be charged in connection with the deaths last year of 24 unarmed civilians in Haditha, Iraq, his attorney said on Tuesday.
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By SCOTT HARPER  BY SCOTT HARPER  THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT  CHESAPEAKE - Hearndon Construction Corp. has agreed to pay the state an $11,500 fine and restore wetlands and woods illegally damaged during development of new homes in the Deep Creek area of Chesapeake.
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NEW YORK -- The captain vilified for his months of silence about the fatal crash of the Staten Island ferry Andrew J. Barberi will escape prosecution for lying about the accident under an unusual deal with federal prosecutors.
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The co-pilot of an American Airlines  jet that crashed nearly three years ago in New York and killed  265 people lost control of the Airbus plane after mishandling  the rudder, investigators concluded on Tuesday.
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By Keith Lawrence, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Feb. 3--Wade Mainer brought the house down when he performed at the River of Music Party's Legends Night in 2005.   He was 98 then.
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By Robin Fitzgerald, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 6--GULFPORT -- An Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigation of the March 21 drowning of two construction workers in a storm-damaged casino barge could result in fines exceeding $85,000.
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Two U.S. Islamic organizations and a  man charged with bankrolling the Palestinian group Hamas were  found liable for damages on Wednesday in the death of an  American-born student gunned down in the West Bank in 1996.
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The ship pilot who was at the helm when a freighter spilled 58,000 gallons of fuel into San Francisco Bay in November suffers from a sleep disorder and was on prescription medication to ward off drowsiness, people close to the investigation told The Associated Press.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Brazilian police charged two U.S. pilots on Friday with endangering air safety in the crash of a Brazilian airliner over the Amazon rain forest that killed all 154 people on board.
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Investigators search a wooded field where a twin engine plane crashed early Monday, Nov. 22, 2004 in Houston. A private jet clipped a light pole and crashed as it approached Hobby Airport in thick fog, killing
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CHICAGO - Authorities were considering criminal charges Wednesday against the Dave Matthews Band and one of its tour bus drivers for allegedly dumping human waste from a bus into the Chicago River, dousing a tour boat filled with passengers.    The announcement came a day after the state sued the band and driver Stefan Wohl, accusing them of violating state water pollution and public nuisance laws...