Robot breakdown delays rescue of 29 trapped New Zealand miners
GREYMOUTH, New Zealand (AP) — The bid to rescue 29 New Zealand coal miners trapped underground by a massive gas explosion for nearly five days hit new problems Tuesday as a mechanical robot broke down inside a tunnel and hard rock layers slowed progress on gas testing.
Stampede in Cambodian festival kills 330, injures hundreds
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Thousands of people stampeded during a festival in the Cambodian capital Monday night, leaving more than 330 dead and hundreds injured in what the prime minister called the country’s biggest tragedy since the 1970s reign of terror by the Khmer Rouge.
Some in the panicky crowd — who were celebrating the end of the rainy season on a sliver of land in a river — tried to flee over a bridge and were crushed underfoot or fell over its sides into the water. A witness who arrived shortly after the stampede described “bodies stacked on bodies” on the bridge as rescuers swarmed the area.
Ambulances raced back and forth between the river and the hospitals for several hours after the stampede. Calmette Hospital, the capital’s main medical facility, was filled to capacity with bodies as well as patients, some of whom had to be treated in hallways. Many of the injured appeared to be badly hurt, raising the prospect that the death toll could rise as local hospitals became overwhelmed.
Hours after the chaos, the dead and injured were still being taken away from the scene, while searchers looked for bodies of anyone who might have drowned. An Associated Press reporter saw one body floating in the river, and hundreds of shoes left behind on and around the bridge.
Jury convicts immigrant of murdering intern Chandra Levy
WASHINGTON (AP) — A jury found a Salvadoran immigrant guilty on Monday of murdering Washington intern Chandra Levy back in 2001, when her disappearance became a national sensation.
Ingmar Guandique was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder for attacking Levy while she exercised in Washington’s Rock Creek Park in May 2001.
Video shows shirtless young boy resisting search at Utah airport
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A YouTube video showing a shirtless young boy resisting a pat-down at Salt Lake City’s airport is renewing criticism of search methods for travelers.
Utah Valley University student Luke Tait shot the video Friday while waiting in a security line. It has been viewed on YouTube more than 765,000 times.
Deer stand falls leading cause of hunting related injuries
NEW IBERIA (AP) — As you set out to go hunting in a tree stand in your favorite deer hunting spot around Acadiana, Louisiana or elsewhere, remember this sobering news from the Midwest: Nearly half of deer hunter injuries are the result of falls rather than gunshots.
The American Surgeon journal recently published the study by the Ohio State University Medical Center, which examined more than a decade of Level 1 trauma center admissions at two hospitals in central Ohio. The study showed falls from the tree stands are the leading cause of hunting related
injuries in the Buckeye State.
Critical care and trauma researchers sought to disprove popular stereotypes that most hunting injuries are gunshot wounds, typically associated with alcohol or drug use, and are accidentally self-inflicted or caused by a fellow hunter.
Specifically, they set out to identify the causes of hunting-related injuries and to characterize trauma-associated injury patterns.
Researchers identified 130 patients who suffered hunting-related injuries. Fifty percent of injuries results from falls and 92 percent of the falls were from tree stands, and 29 percent of the injuries were attributed to gunshot wounds.
Two UL-Monroe baseball players accused of aggravated rape
MONROE (AP) — Two University of Louisiana-Monroe pitchers have been booked with aggravated rape.
The News-Star reports that 21-year-old Shelby Esters Aulds of West Monroe and 20-year-old Kendall Scott Thamm of Baytown, Texas, turned themselves in Friday and are free on $15,000 bond each.
Athletic Director Bobby Staub said in a news release that both have been suspended while the case is investigated.
 
 
 
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