A car driven by a 15-year-old and carrying four other children on their way to school slid off an icy highway into a pond Tuesday, killing all five occupants, authorities said. Divers found the car in about 20 feet of water with the children still trapped inside. A witness saw the vehicle slide off the winding highway around 7:30 a.m., Idaho State Police spokesman Rick Ohnsman said. Killed were driver Brooke Probst, 15, and her brother, Brandt, 12; Megan Walker, 15; and her brothers, Tyler, 14; and Kyle, 12, Ohnsman said. “You don’t imagine these things happening,” said Taylor Madsen, 16, who went to the accident site Tuesday. Madsen, a junior at Emmett High School, said she was a friend of Brooke Probst and Megan Walker.... http://www.msnbc.msn.com censor News |
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New York School Investigated Rape Before Reporting It, Police Chief Says |
| Staffers at a school for the emotionally disturbed conducted their own investigation of a 13-year-old girl's rape and even tried to collect evidence before reporting the attack, a police chief said Tuesday."I'm.. full News |
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Special comment: Condi goes too far Olbermann: Secretary Rice’s comparison of Saddam to Hitler is not accurate |
| On "Fox News Sunday" Feb. 25, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice paralleled World War II with the state of Iraq when discussing what would happen if Congress were to revise the Iraq authorization: We already k.. full News |
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US intelligence chief predicts worse violence in Iraq |
| The United States director of national intelligence, Mike McConnell, is warning the violence in Iraq may get much worse.Admiral McConnell has told the Senate's armed services committee that sectarian violence i.. full News |
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Group: Gore a Hypocrite Over Power Bill Conservative Group Says Gore's Tenn. Mansion Uses Too Much Electricty, Calls Him a Hypocrite |
| EGore a leading voice in the fight against global warming, is being called a hypocrite by a conservative group that claims his Nashville mansion uses too much electricity. Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth" wo.. full News |
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Confusion over report of 18 Iraqi boys killed in park |
| State television reported that 18 boys were killed when a car bomb exploded in a park in Ramadi, and Iraqi and international officials were quick to deplore the slaughter. But questions about key details of the.. full News |
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