Fire kills ex-lawmaker's granddaughter
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A 5-year-old girl injured in a house fire that killed her grandfather, a former state legislator, and his mother-in-law died Saturday, hospital officials said.
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The widow of a congressman who died from asbestos-related cancer urged Congress on Thursday to pass legislation that would ban the substance.
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An opposition lawmaker died at a hospital shortly after he was wounded in a shooting near the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo on Tuesday, a hospital official said.
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Former Rep. Jennifer Dunn, R-Wash. who represented Seattle's conservative east-side suburbs for six terms in Congress, died Wednesday, her family said. She was 66.
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Former Rep. Jennifer Dunn, who became the most powerful Republican woman in Washington state history during six terms representing Seattle's east-side suburbs, died Wednesday after developing a blood clot in her Virginia apartment, her family said. She was 66.
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The deadly fire claimed another young victim, when a 7-year-old girl who had been hospitalized since Wednesday died.
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Nellie Connally, the widow of former Gov. John Connally and the last remaining survivor who was riding in President Kennedy's limousine when he was assassinated, has died, a longtime family friend said Saturday. She was 87.
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Bullet casings and a fire accellerant were found in the rubble of a home where six people &#151; all relatives of a person involved in a drug investigation &#151; died in a weekend blaze, authorities said.
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A state senator accidentally drove over his young granddaughter Friday, killing her, the senator said in a statement.
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A Capitol Hill house where Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) rents an apartment caught fire yesterday while the Democratic presidential contender was out of town, a spokesman said.
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Police have found the charred remains of a retired FBI agent's daughter who disappeared nearly a month ago, authorities said Saturday.
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A newly elected opposition lawmaker was shot and killed outside a popular Guatemalan tourist resort on Friday, the latest politician to be gunned down in an election year marred by violence.
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A group of lawmakers wants to make it harder for police to use "no-knock" warrants in the wake of a shootout that left an elderly woman dead after plainclothes officers stormed her home unannounced in a search for drugs.
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Fire engulfed a two-story home early Thursday, killing a man and his five stepchildren, authorities said.
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A freshman parliamentarian who had resisted his partyâs often belligerent talk was shot dead in his driveway.
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A 62-year-old woman was sentenced to 25 years in prison for killing her teenage grandson while he slept, then setting their mobile home on fire.
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In what authorities are calling a targeted killing, the wife of a Florida Panhandle sheriff, a deputy and two suspects died in an exchange of gunfire outside the sheriff's house Tuesday evening, an official with the State Attorney's Office said.