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Police say a fight preceded the shooting outside FAMU’s Bragg Memorial Stadium, with none of the 11 gunshot victims, six of them minors, believed to be intended targets
The collapse at a homecoming party in Williamsburg sent 13 people to the hospital by ambulance and 15 via their own transportation
The Salem High School bus overturned nearly a full rotation after striking a Kia while exiting I-20, with one student airlifted via Life Flight among 27 people aboard
A 6-year-old boy and a 35-year-old man were killed and 11 others, ages 5 to 68, were hospitalized when a 34-year-old woman drove a truck through a youth soccer game in Wichita
Idaho State Police say a crash involving a group of motorcyclists on I-84 near Caldwell caused several vehicles to pile up, prompting air and ground ambulances to transport about 15 people to local hospitals
A car crossed the center line and struck a Winter Haven school bus carrying 39 people, ripping off a tire and sending the bus into an oncoming Jeep that caught fire
More than 1,000 people had gathered in Vienna, Georgia, when gunfire erupted in at least two locations during a post-homecoming block party
South Windsor firefighters declared a mass casualty incident after a nine-vehicle crash involving a school van and tractor-trailer left six people injured, two seriously
Fifteen participants reported symptoms, one day after 19 people were hospitalized as investigators continued testing food, water, air and other possible causes
Multiple people suffered minor injuries after a school bus carrying students from the Maryland School for the Blind crashed into a building
More than 100 first responders responded after a bus crashed into a building in Pikesville, prompting a mass casualty incident
LAFD paramedics transported all 12 occupants of an overturned SUV after a Sun Valley crash
Four people were flown to a burn center and five others were taken by ambulance after a cruiser exploded near Chesapeake City
Los Angeles County firefighters declared a mass casualty incident after a tractor-trailer crossed a freeway median and collided head-on with multiple vehicles
Specialized cave and swift-water rescue teams worked through flooded roads and dangerous conditions to pull 14 people safely from two Jackson County caves
Fourteen Minster swim team members were hospitalized after a chlorine pump malfunction reportedly exposed swimmers to chemicals
Officials called the fire and explosion at Robbins Lumber a mass-casualty event in Searsmont
Eleven people were taken to hospitals after a vehicle struck a dairy cow on Route 116 in Sunderland and then collided with a second vehicle
Cleveland firefighters and a medical helicopter responded to Amaero Advanced Materials after an industrial explosion
A possible fuel-related explosion aboard a 40-foot cabin cruiser near the Haulover Sandbar sparked a mass-casualty response
A valve malfunction involving boron trifluoride at a Lafayette Parish business prompted evacuations and hospitalized workers and first responders
More than 100 paramedics staffed the three-day event, using foot teams to reach and treat patients in dense crowds
A suspected impaired driver going the wrong way triggered a seven-vehicle crash on Interstate 680 in Contra Costa County
Medina County crews used a rescue sling and grain sleeve to free the man, who was buried chest-deep in corn
Four students and a security guard were taken to hospitals after the stabbing at Foss High School in Tacoma
A toxic gas release at a silver recovery facility in Kanawha County left two people dead and about 30 others hospitalized as officials investigate a chemical reaction involving nitric acid
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