8 h. ago It’s not just the noise: Cicadas are overrunning an amusement park and are taking the blame for a car crash

Brood 14 is emerging across portions of the eastern U.S., and will likely be a present nuisance for the next few weeks

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10 h. ago Teenager killed in crash between car and lorry at roundabout

Two other young people were taken to hospital with serious injuries

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14 h. ago Man who died when car ploughed into bus stop and building in horror crash is named

A car struck a 64-year-old man and wiped out a bus stop

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31 h. ago Three kids critically injured after car wreck sends vehicle careening into their sidewalk lemonade stand

The girls, aged 7, 8, and 9 were rushed to hospitals in North Carolina in critical condition

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36 h. ago Young bride heartbroken as husband, 19, dies in horror crash soon after wedding

Chloe Maloney had only just married her husband Jerry Maloney before he was tragically killed in a car crash - moving tributes were paid to Jerry, who died aged only 19

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40 h. ago Driver 'deliberately removed black box' from car before crash that killed girl

Christopher West, 42, was speeding in a 30mph zone in Heol Trelai in Caerau, Cardiff when he struck and killed Keely Morgan, 15, who had been enjoying the bank holiday with her family

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42 h. ago Race Across The World star Sam Gardiner's cause of death after horror crash

Sam Gardiner, who starred in Race Across The World with his mum Jo, tragically lost his life last month after being involved in a horror car crash in Gatley, Stockport.

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43 h. ago Race Across The World star Sam Gardiner's cause of death revealed

Race Across The World's Sam Gardiner died in May after a horror car crash. The cause of death has recently been revealed

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61 h. ago Met pays damages to woman for failing to investigate rape claim against ex

Officers questioned woman but not the alleged rapist, bringing force into disrepute, rules watchdogScotland Yard has paid a five-figure sum to a woman after officers “brought the service into disrepute” for failing to investigate her report of rape by her ex-husband, the Guardian has learned.The Metropolitan police’s directorate of professional standards – known as the “Line of Duty unit” – criticised officers involved in the woman’s case, saying they had damaged the reputation of the force “at a time when we are working hard to build bridges with the public and re-build the trust we have lost”. Continue reading...

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63 h. ago Family 'utterly heartbroken' after man killed in horror three

The three-car crashed happened in Aberdeenshire and has left a man dead, with his family ‘utterly heart-broken’.

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64 h. ago Police appeal after motorcyclist seriously injured in crash with car

A man remains in hospital after the collision which saw a road shut for several hours

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66 h. ago Rising country star Conner Smith ‘cooperating with police’ after woman killed in car crash

Singer’s representative said his ‘heart goes out’ to the family of a woman who died

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69 h. ago Rising country star Conner Smith involved in fatal car accident

Singer’s representative said his ‘heart goes out’ to the family of a woman who died

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3 d. ago Former Dallas Cowboys player charged after mother of two killed in crash

Kelvin Joseph charged over accident in Plano that killed motorcyclist Cody Morris

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3 d. ago Othniel Adoma: Tragedy as footballer, 11, who 'always had a smile on his face' dies

Othniel Adoma had "electric pace, dazzling footwork," his team, Crowthorne FC Juniors, said in a statement following the child's death of injuries suffered in a car crash

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3 d. ago 'I'm at your mercy': Woman needing transfusions pleads for more blood donors as stocks run 'critically low'

The NHS has issued an urgent call for one million people across England to donate blood and stabilise the nation’s supplies

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3 d. ago A1 car crash: Woman on first date who ended up in 119mph smash 'wishes it never happened'

Courtney Redfern was on a first date with Mazyar Azarbonyad when she ended up in a terrifying 120 mph police chase that ended in a sickening multi-car pile-up on the A1

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3 d. ago ‘It makes me sick!’ How the likes of the French impressionists went from ‘lunatics’ to luminaries

The National Gallery of Victoria’s new show, French Impressionism, celebrates the likes of Monet, Renoir, Degas, Morisot and Pissarro, who painted in the face of public outrageGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email“Five or six lunatics deranged by ambition – one of them a woman – have chosen to exhibit their works,” French critic Albert Wolff wrote in a review of an art exhibition in Paris in 1876. The lunatics in question were a group of up-and-coming artists: Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro and Edgar Degas.Almost 150 years later, we know now that those lunatics took over the asylum. The impressionists, who rebelled against the old masters by painting lighter, brighter, ephemeral scenes, are today’s old masters; what was so shocking then is now all over our calendars, coffee cups and phone cases. But back in 1876, those looking at their works “are content to laugh at such things,” Wolff wrote sniffily. “But it makes me sick ...

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3 d. ago ‘It makes me sick!’ How the French impressionists went from ‘lunatics’ to luminaries

The National Gallery of Victoria’s new show, French Impressionism, celebrates the likes of Monet, Renoir, Degas, Morisot and Pissarro, who painted in the face of public outrageGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email“Five or six lunatics deranged by ambition – one of them a woman – have chosen to exhibit their works,” French critic Albert Wolff wrote in a review of an art exhibition in Paris in 1876. The lunatics in question were a group of up-and-coming artists: Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro and Edgar Degas.Almost 150 years later, we know now that those lunatics took over the asylum. The impressionists, who rebelled against the old masters by painting lighter, brighter, ephemeral scenes, are today’s old masters; what was so shocking then is now all over our calendars, coffee cups and phone cases. But back in 1876, those looking at their works “are content to laugh at such things,” Wolff wrote sniffily. “But it makes me sick ...

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3 d. ago 'I'm at your mercy': Woman needing transfusions pleas for more blood donors as stocks 'critically low'

The NHS has issued an urgent call for one million people across England to donate blood and stabilise the nation’s supplies

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