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Fla. highway open after chain crashes kill 10 (AP)

Florida Highway Patrolmen inspect the damage from a multi-vehicle accident that killed at least nine people, on Interstate 75 near Gainesville, Fla., Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012. Authorities were still trying to determine what caused the pileup on the highway, which had been closed for a time because of the mixture of fog and heavy smoke from a brush fire. At least five cars and six tractor-trailers were involved, and some burst into flame. (AP Photo/Phil Sandlin)AP – Fog and brushfire smoke cleared enough Monday to reopen all lanes of a Florida interstate where 10 people died in a mass pileup that tossed wreckage across the asphalt and left rescuers to search for survivors in the dark by listening for their screams.


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Russia’s Mars probe crashes into Pacific Ocean: report

Splashdown! Remnants of the Russian probe that failed to escape Earth orbit crashed into the Pacific Ocean Sunday, according to the Russian news agency, Interfax.

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5 die when small plane crashes on major NJ highway (AP)

A State Police helicopter lands on the southbound lanes of route 287 in Harding Township, N.J., where a small plane headed for Georgia crashed, raining debris down on the highway and local streets Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011. The plane spiraled out of control and lost a section of the aircraft before hitting the wooded median strip, skidding into the roadway and exploding. All five people aboard were killed but no one on the ground was injured. (AP Photo/Joe Epstein)AP – A small plane heading for Georgia crashed Tuesday on a major New York-area highway, spiraling out of control, breaking up and hitting a wooded median and scattering wreckage across the road. All five people aboard were killed, but no one on the ground was injured.


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Airplane crashes into Philippine school, killing 13 

A light airplane crashed into a school building Saturday near the Philippine capital after its pilot requested an emergency landing shortly after takeoff, killing at least 13 people, including two children.

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Brooklyn DJ JonathanToubin hurt when taxi crashes into his hotel room in Oregon 

A Brooklyn DJ was critically injured in a freak accident when a cab plowed through the wall of his Oregon hotel room and pinned him in bed Thursday. Rock and soul disc jockey Jonathan Toubin was hospitalized in a serious condition after the wild crash at the Jupiter Hotel in Portland, reports said.

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Aircraft crashes into mountain east of Phoenix (AP)

AP – Authorities say an aircraft has crashed in the Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix but they don’t yet know what kind of plane it is.

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Overpacked China school bus crashes, 18 kids die (AP)

In this photo taken on a mobile phone, two police officers, front, investigate at the accident scene where a kindergarten minibus, left, collided head-on with a truck loaded with coal, right, on a road at Yu Linzi township in Qingyang, in northwestern China's Gansu province, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011. At least 17 kindergarten kids and two adults were killed when the nine-seater school minibus crammed with 64 people crashed on its way to class in western China, officials and state media said. (AP Photo)  CHINA OUTAP – An overloaded school minibus crashed head-on with a truck in rural western China on Wednesday, killing at least 18 kindergarten children on their way to class, officials said.


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