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The 16-year-old girl killed in a crash in a Wal-Mart parking lot was laid to rest earlier this month, reports say. The young girl, Ashley Moore, died when the SUV she was riding in smashed into the fire exit doors and a portion of the brick wall on the front of the Wal-Mart store in Dunn, (???). The driver of the car, boyfriend Dillon Tart, survived the crash. Reports say an eyewitness heard Moore screaming before the SUV accelerated through…

A vendor for Pepsi Beverages Company of Roanoke, Edward Smallwood, suffered severe head trauma while making a delivery Friday morning at the Salem Walmart, reports say. Smallwood, 33, was injured in the loading dock area when he went under a metal ramp to pick up an item and the ramp fell on him. The incident is being investigated by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration. He was transported to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital and was still considered critical earlier…

A 20-year-old man was arrested in connection with a Rhode Island fight where another man was dragged and run over by an SUV in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart. Police arrested Patrick J. Oliveira at Roger Williams Medical Center in Providence after police learned that he was being treated there. Reports say that police believe Oliveira was being treated for injuries incurred during the fight in which the man was hit and dragged during a confrontation between youths in…

The death of a toddler who died earlier this month after family members found her in a pool behind her North Charleston, S.C. home has been ruled an accidental drowning, reports say. 21-month-old Nora Flores died was pronounced dead from drowning about 5:45 p.m. on Saturday, June 11th, 2011 at Medical University Hospital. Even though Charleston County EMS failed to resuscitate the unconscious and unresponsive child, they continued the effort by transporting her to the hospital. Emergency services were called…

An Arizona City youth was hospitalized and listed in fair condition after being mauled by three dogs after school one afternoon last month. Ten-year-old Jason Hamilton was walking home from school after getting off the school bus with his little brother when he was attacked in Arizona City, which is just south of Phoenix, AZ. The boy was transported to a Phoenix hospital with dog bites to his body, face and neck, reports say. Reports also say that the owner…