Ex-Student at Independence High Drowns at Lake in Gaston
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By Greg Lacour, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 19--An 18-year-old former Independence High student, back from Fayetteville to visit some of his old buddies, drowned Monday while swimming with them in Mountain Island Lake in Gaston County.
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The cousin of one of three youths who died in the Lake District tells how the day turned to tragedy.
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By Kirsten Valle, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 10--Thousands of fish have died in Mecklenburg County ponds this  month after a spell of hot and dry weather, county officials said.
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By Edith Brady-Lunny and Sharon K. Wolfe, The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.  Jun. 16--DANVERS -- A 72-year old Washington woman was identified Friday as the victim in a drowning Thursday at Spin Lake in rural Danvers.   Velma M.
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By Eve Hightower And Rosalio Ahumada, The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Mar. 10--Divers on Friday afternoon recovered a body from the Tuolumne River believed to be a 13-year-old boy who disappeared earlier in the day while rafting near the Ninth Street Bridge.
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By Robin Fitzgerald, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Mar. 2--GULFPORT -- The 6-year-old who collapsed on a county school bus on Thursday died from an abscess where two teeth had been removed from his lower jaw, authorities said.
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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 bus carrying high school students overturned after colliding with a pickup truck Thursday, killing a 15-year-old girl, officials said. Two other students and both drivers were injured.
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A 22-year-old was killed during a college outing Wednesday when his paraglider flew into a 22,000-volt high-tension power line, police said.
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LITTLE ROCK -- A high school basketball player died Wednesday night after he collapsed during a game.
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A former Robinson high football star was gunned down in Ybor City over the weekend. Kwane Doster was shot to death early Sunday morning at Nebraska and 7th Avenue in Tampa.
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BATON ROUGE, Louisiana  - A nursing student shot two women to death and killed herself in front of horrified classmates at a college in the southern U.S. state of Louisiana on Friday, police said.
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By MARCUS KABEL ENTERPRISE, Ala. - An apparent tornado struck a high school Thursday, trapping students under rubble and killing at least thirteen people, emergency officials said.
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RICHMOND, Va. - Flooding touched off by the remnants of Tropical Storm Gaston left at least five people dead in Virginia on Tuesday and devastated a historic Richmond neighborhood that was the heart of the Confederate capital during the Civil War...
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Associated Press Writer - 10/12/04. SEATTLE - After eight days, Laura Hatch&#39;s family had almost given the 17-year-old up for dead, and sheriff&#39;s deputies had all but written her off as a runaway.
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A 20-year-old college cheerleader was shot to death in her apartment by an obsessed ex-boyfriend, who then killed himself, authorities said.
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BAILEY, Colo., Sept. 27 -- A gunman took six girls hostage at the high school in this mountain town Wednesday, using them as human shields for hours before he shot and fatally wounded a girl, then killed himself as a SWAT team moved in, authorities said.