The Illinois Racing Board said Monday that an independent consultant hired to examine the track surface at Arlington Park could find no explanation for a cluster of fatal breakdowns of horses there. Complete Story
Dorothy Clark Blackmun
As of Monday, July 17, 2006, at least 2,554 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,015 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
An explosion in one mine and flooding in another killed 64 workers and left seven missing in the latest disasters to strike China's mining industry, state media reported Monday.
Joseph Boone
As of Sunday, July 16, 2006, at least 2,550 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,012 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
A gas explosion in a Chinese coal mine killed at least 18 miners and trapped 39 others, a news report said Sunday.
Hundreds of laboratory mice and rats died when a power outage at Ohio State University produced sent room temperatures soaring as high as 105 degrees, the school said.
Princess Siu'ilikutapu of Tonga said Friday her family has forgiven the teenage girl charged with killing a Tongan prince and princess in a car crash, but they will not ask prosecutors to drop the charges.
Sara Aiko Uno Takitani
As of Wednesday, July 12, 2006, at least 2,545 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,011 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
A massive roadside memorial for a Tongan prince and princess killed in a high-speed freeway crash was dismantled because authorities feared the wall of flowers, crosses, beads and boas created a safety hazard.
Mary Day
Catherine Leroy
Three American soldiers assigned to a Marine unit were killed Saturday in fighting in the western province of Anbar, the U.S. military said.
A state board on Friday barred a doctor from prescribing narcotics after officials said 10 of his patients died from a lethal mix of drugs or an overdose of prescription medicines.
Luis Barragan
Celebrations of France's trip to the World Cup final were marred by deaths, injuries and arrests around the country, though that did little to dampen the jubilant spirit.
As of Sunday, July 9, 2006, at least 2,546 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,009 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
As of July 8, 2006, at least 254 members of the U.S. military have died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department.
Barbara Albright
A Tongan prince known for promoting political reform in his South Pacific island nation died along with his wife in a crash with a teenager's car, authorities said.
In obituaries July 3 and July 4 for Anna Lee Aldred, The Associated Press erroneously reported the location of Aqua Caliente race track. It was in Tijuana, Mexico, not California. The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame says Aldred rode at Aqua Caliente in 1939, becoming the first woman in the United States to hold a professional jockey's license.
Torrential rains and a tornado killed at least 30 people as storms battered eastern China this week, with millions more affected by flooding and other storm damage, state media and officials said Thursday.
Umberto Abronzino