27 h. ago Families of Camp Mystic campers and counselors file lawsuits over deaths

Families allege camp leaders ignored known flood risks in ‘entirely preventable’ tragedy that killed multiple peopleThe families of several campers and two counselors who died in July’s catastrophic Hill Country floods in Texas have filed multiple lawsuits against Camp Mystic and its owners, accusing them of “gross negligence”.The 4 July floods, which claimed more than 130 lives across the region and was described as some of the US’s deadliest floods in decades, devastated the 99-year-old Christian all-girls camp, located on the banks of the Guadalupe river in Kerr county. Continue reading...

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43 h. ago Families accuse Camp Mystic of ignoring risks in Texas lawsuit over flood deaths

The families of some of the 25 girls and two teenage counselors who died in catastrophic flooding in Texas on July 4 are suing Camp Mystic and its owners

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2 w. ago Funeral home worker's tragic last voicemail for wife as he was crushed by concrete tomb

A family has been left searching for answers after funeral home employee Angel Anthony Rojas was crushed to death beneath a burial vault, making one last tragic call to his wife as he waited for help

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2 w. ago WH Auden formed ‘intense friendship’ with sex worker who burgled him, unseen letters reveal

Exclusive: the newly released correspondence reveals how a strong bond developed between the Funeral Blues poet and the sex worker who broke into his homeA “once in a century” discovery of a cache of long-lost letters has revealed how the English poet WH Auden developed a deep and lasting friendship with a Viennese sex worker and car mechanic after the latter burgled the Funeral Blues author’s home and was put on trial.York-born Auden, a prominent member of a generation of 1930s writers that also included Christopher Isherwood, Louis MacNeice and Stephen Spender, described his unconventional arrangement with the man he affectionally called “Hugerl” in the posthumously published poem Glad. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Ghoulish freak workplace accident ends the life of beloved funeral home worker at just 24

Angel Anthony Rojas, 24, died on Monday afternoon after a burial vault crushed him while he was working at a Texas funeral home.

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3 w. ago Funeral worker in Texas dies after being crushed by burial vault

Burial vaults typically weigh over 2,000 pounds and are used to prevent graves from sinking

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last month Two people die after fireball plane crashes off Fort Worth highway in Texas

A fireball plane crash in Fort Worth, Texas, has left at least two people dead after the aircraft crashed into multiple lorries beside a motorway on Sunday afternoon

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