Tue, 07/09/2010 - 07:29 by Prince damin
Laramie, Wyo. -- University of Wyoming linebacker Ruben Narcisse was killed and three other players were injured in an early Monday car crash, school officials said.
Wyoming President Tom Buchanan said Narcisse, a 19-year-old freshman from North Miami, Fla., died in Colorado shortly after 5:30 a.m., as the teammates were returning to Laramie, Wyo., from a trip to Fort Collins, Colo., The Miami Herald reported.
"The loss of any student saddens us immeasurably," Buchanan said in statement. "My condolences go out to Ruben's family and friends. The entire university community grieves his loss."
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Sun, 05/09/2010 - 00:07 by Prince damin
Phoenix -- Comedian Robert Schimmel died in a Phoenix hospital from injuries suffered in automobile accident, his spokesman said. He was 60.
Schimmel was a passenger in his daughter's car when she lost control after swerving to avoid another accident on I-10 in Phoenix on Aug. 26.
The actor was best known for his appearances on the "Howard Stern Show" and appeared on several HBO programs, including his own special, "Unprotected," ABC News said Saturday.
Schimmel's daughter, Aliyah, 19, remains hospitalized, and his 11-year-old son was uninjured. Aliyah was expected to recover from her injuries, Schimmel's spokesman, Howard Bragman, said.
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Wed, 01/09/2010 - 23:56 by Prince damin
Milwaukie, Ore. -- The family of "Tough" Tony Borne says the start of wrestling's golden age died last week at the age of 84 at his home in Oregon.
Borne will be remembered at a public memorial to be held at a later date in his adopted hometown of Milwaukee.
Borne was a huge favorite in the Pacific Northwest during his days on the grappling circuit in the 1950s and 1960s. He also drew large crowds in Mexico before retiring from the ring in the 1970s to go into real estate.
His accolades included 19 Pacific Northwest Tag Team titles, including 10 he shared with partner Lonnie "Moondog" Mayne, The (Portland) Oregonian said Wednesday.
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Wed, 01/09/2010 - 01:07 by Prince damin
Paris -- Laurent Fignon, who twice won the Tour de France, has died in Paris of cancer. He was 50.
Fignon's death was reported by France 2 TV, a network that employed the former cyclist for the last five years. He was diagnosed with cancer of the digestive tract in early 2009 but continued his commentary on races while receiving treatment.
He died Tuesday at a hospital in Paris.
Fignon won the Tour de France in 1983 and 1984 and was edged by Greg LeMond for the title in 1989. LeMond trailed by 50 seconds but won the final-day time trial and topped Fignon by 8 seconds, the closest finish in the history of the Tour de France.
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Wed, 25/08/2010 - 10:07 by Prince damin
Patterson, Calif. -- Four people, including a child, were killed Tuesday in a two-vehicle collision in Stanislaus County, police said.
The crash occurred in Patterson when a van broadsided a sport utility vehicle at an intersection. The California Highway Patrol told KCRA-TV, Sacramento, the preliminary investigation indicated the van may have run a stop sign.
The driver of the van was killed, as were a man, a woman and the child in the SUV. Another person in the SUV was seriously injured.
KCRA said the impact of the crash pushed the SUV into a tree.
Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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Mon, 23/08/2010 - 12:07 by Natalie James
A Swell Season outdoor concert turned out to be a major shock event Thursday when a concertgoer jumped to his death and landed right on the stage.
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Fri, 20/08/2010 - 22:28 by Prince damin
New York -- Dead, "junk" genes in the human genome sequence can come to life, researchers say, to cause one of the most common forms of muscular dystrophy.
Scientists say this "junk" DNA is found in regions of the genome dating back hundreds of thousands of years, The New York Times reported Thursday.
Some of those genes, geneticists found, can rise from the dead like zombies to cause facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, or FSHD.
This is the first time, they say, they have observed a dead gene come back to life and cause a disease.
FSHD affects about one in 20,000 people, causing a progressive weakening of muscles in the upper arms, the shoulders and in the face.
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Fri, 20/08/2010 - 22:27 by Prince damin
London -- Fiona Coyne, host of the South African version of the game show "The Weakest Link" since 2003, has been found dead at her home in Fish Hoek, police said.
Investigators confirmed to the BBC that Coyne's housekeeper found her body Wednesday. However, they declined to discuss rumors that the 45-year-old TV presenter, actress and playwright had committed suicide.
"We've opened up an inquest and the course of death will be determined from that," Capt. Stephen Knap of the Cape Town police told the British broadcaster.
Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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Fri, 20/08/2010 - 09:46 by Prince damin
Glasgow, Scotland -- Glasgow Poet Laureate Edwin Morgan has died in a nursing facility after a long battle with prostate cancer, his publishers said Thursday. He was 90.
Morgan was appointed Glasgow's first poet laureate in 1999 and was declared "Scots Makar," Scotland's first national poet, in 2004 by then-First Minister Jack McConnell, The Scotsman noted.
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Wed, 18/08/2010 - 07:18 by Jamie Anderson
Celebrity plastic surgeon Dr. Frank Ryan died Monday afternoon when his 1995 Jeep Wrangler plunged off a Malibu highway into the ocean.
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Tue, 17/08/2010 - 13:18 by Natalie James
The bodies of two toddlers have been recovered from a car submerged in a South Carolina river, the Orangeburg County, SC, police authorities said Monday.
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Tue, 17/08/2010 - 09:18 by Prince damin
Pomona, Calif. -- Harrison "Buzz" Price, the U.S. research economist who recommended the locations for Disneyland and Disney World, has died, his family said. He was 89.
Price died Sunday of chronic anemia at Mount San Antonio Gardens' hospice in Pomona, Calif., the Los Angeles Times reported.
Price was recognized as a pioneer in the field of theme parks, resort and leisure-recreation project feasibility almost from the day in 1953 that Walt and Roy O. Disney chose him "to determine the economic feasibility of the best location for a new project -- Disneyland," Price's family said.
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