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According to a report in the Pensacola News Journal, a 59-year-old man at a gas station in West Pensacola, Florida, was accidentally run over and torn in half by a slow-moving tractor-trailer on March 22, but his torso continued to show signs of life and paramedics airlifted it to the West Florida Regional Medical Center, where the man was not pronounced dead until about three and a half hours later.
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A Maryland state agency reported that the number one cause of death of pregnant women for the years 1993-’98 was homicide….Several angry viewers made death threats against Philadelphia TV meteorologist John Bolaris in early March after he incorrectly forecast a snowstorm….And police in Christchurch, New Zealand, got burglar Stuart Robert McPherson’s confession when he called up a victim just to taunt him about his “stuff [being] crap.”
