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Police in Wyoming say nobody was hurt when a small gun that was inside a girl's purse fired while she was in a Cheyenne Starbucks. The bullet went through a chair and into a wall and narrowly missed several customers.

Chinese investigators on Wednesday attributed a deadly train crash last summer to a string of blunders, including flaws in equipment used to signal and control the trains.

A research assistant was fatally burned when chemicals burst into flame. Her death three years ago has focused attention on safety issues. Felony charges have been filed against the University of California and a UCLA chemistry professor in connection with a laboratory fire that killed a staff research assistant three years ago. On Dec. 29, 2008, Sheharbano "Sheri" Sangji, 23, was severely burned over nearly half of her body when air-sensitive chemicals burst into flames during an experiment and ignited her clothing. Sangji, who was not wearing a protective lab coat, died 18 days later.

The global accident rate for January through November was 22% better than a year earlier.

Three women riding on a jet ski were killed when they crashed into a boat Saturday at a Los Angeles County reservoir.

A couple used a jug to make their 10-month-old daughter take solid food which eventually killed her, a court hears.

"Mass casualties" were reported at an air show after a plane slammed into the box seat area in front of a grandstand at the National Championship Air Races and Air Show in Reno on Friday, a spokesman for the show told CNN.

The Indiana State Fair reopened as officials investigated how a concert stage collapsed, killing five and injuring dozens.

A small plane carrying all three teachers for a remote Alaska village crashed in wilderness terrain, killing the pilot and one of the teachers, a school official said Sunday.

Four people are dead and a dozen were injured after a stage collapsed during a storm at the Indiana State Fair, where the country group Sugarland was set to perform.
The Indianapolis Star and WTHR reports that strong winds caused the stage rigging for the outdoor concert to collapse at the fairgrounds Saturday night in Indianapolis. Fans were trapped and injured in the incident shortly before 9 p.m. It happened before the band had taken the stage.
Details on the conditions of those injured were not immediately known.