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FEMA to assess Minn. thunderstorm damage

State and federal officials begin assessing damage today from the severe thunderstorms that hit Minnesota last month.
by Matt Sepic

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Injured SF passenger: 'It's miraculous we survived'

Injured SF passenger: 'It's miraculous we survived'

Police officers threw utility knives up to crew members inside the burning wreckage of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 so they could cut away passengers' seat belts. Passengers jumped down emergency slides, escaping the smoke. Amid the chaos, some urged fellow passengers to keep calm, even as flames tore through the Boeing 777's fuselage.

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Minn. man loses 2 fingers in fireworks blast

Authorities in Otter Tail County say a man has lost two fingers after the firework he was holding exploded in his hand.

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San Francisco crash victims identified as Chinese girls

San Francisco crash victims identified as Chinese girls

Two people died Saturday in the crash-landing at San Francisco International Airport of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 from Seoul, South Korea, San Francisco's fire chief says. Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White says everyone who had been on board the flight is accounted for.

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Falling tree kills Eden Prairie woman

An Eden Prairie woman died Friday after being pinned under a 90-year-old basswood tree.
by Nancy Lebens

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Wildfire cut off Hotshots' access to safety zone

Wildfire cut off Hotshots' access to safety zone

An erratic wildfire driven by ferocious and shifting winds curled around the location of a team of Arizona Hotshot firefighters, cutting off their access to a safety zone and creating a death trap that quickly consumed them.

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3 die in motorcycle crashes July 4

Three died in two separate motorcycle crashes on July 4. Benjamin Jones, 24, was killed after hitting an SUV in St. Louis county. Terrance Armstrong, 57, and Kari Armstrong, 47, died on I-35 in Pine county.
by Rupa Shenoy

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AZ town honors 19 fallen wildfire fighters

AZ town honors 19 fallen wildfire fighters

On a day meant to ponder the nation's birth, and those who built and defended it over 237 years, Prescott, Arizona's residents had 19 of their neighbors, their friends, their relatives to remember: The 19 wildfire fighters who died last Sunday fighting a massive blaze 60 miles from Phoenix.

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Interactive: Deadly wildfires across nation

Interactive map, photos and video of deadly blazes across the United States.

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Site where Arizona firefighters died to be examined

Site where Arizona firefighters died to be examined

Fire investigators seeking to determine what went wrong when 19 firefighters died were expected to make their way to the site where the bodies were found to get their first look at the scene, a mountainous spot about a quarter-mile southwest of Yarnell, Ariz.

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