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New Jersey investigators are attempting to determine why a New Jersey youth and two friends died when they drove a car at high speed into an elementary school building. Those killed in the crash were Matthew Budesa, the driver, 20, of Pine Beach, NJ; Kimberly Van Gorden, 20, of Beachwood, NJ; and Matthew Witzgall, 21, of Toms River, NJ, one was the son of a longtime borough councilman. The crash occurred early this month when somewhere between 4 and 4:30…

According to recently published reports, U.S. coal-fired power plant pollution is linked to the deaths of as many as 34,000 people each year. The study, released by the Civil Society Institute in Washington and prepared by Synapse Energy Economics Inc., shows that the health cost of burning coal are more deadly than previously thought, reports say. Deaths ranging from 8,000 to 34,000 have been reported, with a “cost on society” of $64-billion to $272 billion, or a cost four times…

According to reports, the Federal Aviation Administration has approved a regulation that requires operators of older US-registered Boeing 737s to install new warning systems within three years that will warn pilots of pressurization problems onboard. The warning systems are in response to a 2005 crash of a Helios Airways Boeing 737-300 that was flying from Cypress to Greece. That crash occurred when the aircraft had climbed to its cruising level without automatic cabin pressurization. Without the cabin pressurized the human…

A resident of an apartment complex off Bissonett, in southwest Houston was returning home after visiting a nearby relative when he was confronted in the parking lot complex by an unknown suspect. The suspect stabbed the resident multiple times and then fled the scene. The resident, identified as Pena was found on the sidewalk and then taken to the hospital. The victim, David Pena, 24, of the above address, suffered multiple stab wounds and was transported to Ben Taub General…

Reports say the YES Academy is being sued by the mother of a son who drowned while attending a summer program. Carnez Boone, a 14-year-old Collingdale, PA boy who had been sent to a residential treatment program in western Pennsylvania, drowned in Stoneboro last summer after jumping off the high dive. Carnez’s mother, Okita Allen, reportedly claims that school counselors pressured Carnez to jump off the high dive during a class trip with the YES Academy, a yearlong residential program…