The awful stories of two recent New York City subway deaths have sparked sad tales of the victims and their murderers, but have mostly ignored another another unlucky participant: the driver of the train who had to watch someone die.
It's worth a pause this morning to think about how dangerous things are for those still serving in Afghanistan, as 11 people were killed in a helicopter crash there, including seven international service members, all of whom may have been American.
Whenever another tragedy happens in the Kennedy family, the "curse" comes up again, along with "evidence" of how those lives have been destroyed by the alleged curse.
In a reminder that military work is dangerous even during training inside the United States, seven marines were killed when their two helicopters -- a two-seat Cobra and a Huey -- crashed into each other in midair in a remote part of California across the border from Yuma, Arizona, on Wednesday night.
The tragic story of a deadly Christmas Day fire in Connecticut took another sad turn after it was reported that the woman who survived attempted to kill herself.
The latest news from that horrible Christmas day fire in Stamford, Connecticut, comes from the local coroner's office, which announced on Wednesday that all five of the victims died of smoke inhalation.
Details continue to emerge about the fire that killed five people and destroyed the Stamford, Conn. home of fashion branding executive Madonna Badger, and the latest is that fire officials confirmed that fireplace embers were disposed of inside the house just a couple hours before the fire broke out.
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