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A veteran SeaWorld trainer was rubbing a killer whale from a poolside platform when the 12,000-pound creature reached up, grabbed her ponytail in its mouth and dragged her underwater. Despite workers rushing to help, the trainer was killed.

The family of a Dallas police officer who died in a crash two years ago while escorting then-presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton in a motorcade has sued her, the city of Dallas and the maker of the helmet he was wearing.

A NATO airstrike in southern Afghanistan has killed 33 people after an aircraft fired on civilians mistakenly thought to be insurgents, the Afghan government said on Monday.

A fan has died after being hit by a tire from a crashing dragster at the NHRA Arizona Nationals.

An 82-year-old woman died Thursday, two days after a hose dangling off a passing fire truck struck her in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Vermont State Police say a snowmobiling accident on a frozen lake has killed three people including a 3-year-old girl.

Cincinnati Bengals wideout Chris Henry has passed away as a result of injuries suffered when he fell out of the back of a truck in North Carolina. Henry jumped into the back of a pickup truck which was being driven away by his fiancee. Henry was found on the road having suffered life-threatening injuries.

Police say a Florida man who thought there was an intruder in his house shot and killed his fiancee the day before they were to get married.

Conan O'Brien turned his "Tonight Show" stunt injury into comedy and showed footage of it as a "cautionary tale" for kids....

A western Pennsylvania man trying to parallel park a minivan killed his identical twin brother, who was trying to guide him into the space.