More than 240 goats die in California trailer wreck
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More than 200 goats needlessly suffocated to death in an overturned livestock trailer near San Francisco because police would not let their herder free them, their owner said on Saturday.
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Scientists and National Park Service workers were working Sunday to collect samples and clean up whale carcasses after 33 of the marine mammals beached themselves between Buxton and Corolla. Seventeen died, including five that were euthanized because they were suffering.
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ROSE CITY, Mich. - Police spent Tuesday morning rounding up a host of four-legged fugitives turned loose after a truck delivering them to northeast Michigan pet stores collided with a tractor.
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A slow-rolling series of storms that battered the West this week brought snowfall and high wind Thursday to parts of California, where weather-weary residents have already endured lashing rain, heavy snowfall and a destructive tornado. Since the wild weather began slogging ashore Monday, five deaths in California and two in Colorado have been blamed on storms. Searchers on Thursday recovered what they believed were the bodies of two missing college students who had vanished after their canoe capsized in a flooded Arizona creek.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Sunday recalled 143 million pounds of frozen beef from a Southern California slaughterhouse
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The heat wave that scorched California a year ago may have contributed to hundreds more deaths than the state has officially reported, an Associated Press investigation suggests.
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LA CONCHITA, Calif.  - The death toll from a  mudslide in the oceanside California town of La Conchita rose  to 10 on Wednesday, as search teams found the bodies of a woman  and her three young children overnight, Ventura County Fire  Department officials said.
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Divers found a six-foot gash on the tanker that leaked 30,000 gallons of crude oil into the Delaware River, creating a 20-mile-long slick that killed dozens of birds and threatened other wildlife, officials said Sunday.
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Heavy rain and winds gusting up to nearly 70 mph battered Southern California on Friday, triggering dozens of wrecks. At least two people died.
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A waterborne disease spread through animal urine has killed nine people and sickened more than 1,600 in storm-stricken Nicaragua, health officials said Monday.
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At least 22 have been killed and and hundreds of buildings destroyed across the southern coast of America in the wake of Hurricane Ivan.
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At least 55 people were killed and hundreds injured Tuesday and Wednesday in the nation's deadliest barrage of twisters in almost 23 years
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More than 5,000 wild animals have been found abandoned and close to death on a broken-down fishing boat off the coast of southern China, state media reported Friday.
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The unearthing of the bodies of Jimmie Wallet's wife and three daughters brought to 10 the number of confirmed dead since a hill in La Conchita, Calif., collapsed.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - About 150 people were ready  to begin cleaning up an oil spill threatening endangered  animals on Sunday, four days after a ship broke apart and six  people died in a helicopter rescue attempt.
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Six horses had to be put down Wednesday after a horrific truck crash on a highway in Slovakia, The Markiza Television network reported.
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Ten people were killed and about  200 injured on Wednesday when two Los Angeles commuter trains  collided after one of them hit a vehicle left on the tracks by  a man contemplating suicide, authorities said.