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[ad_1] Lt. Brad Clark, Virginia firefighter, died Thursday night after the crash of a semi-truck into a fire truck. (Virginia State Police) A semitrailer driver rammed a fire truck on Thursday night …

[ad_1] ImageL Astronaut Virgil Grissom has found his wife, Betty, and their sons, Scott (left) and Mark, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida after his flight on three orbits in 1965. …

[ad_1] Thomas A. Steitz, Nobel Prize winner for chemistry for mapping the structure of ribosomes, molecular machines that translate genetic information into thousands of proteins essential to living matter, died on October …

[ad_1] Betty Grissom, the widow of the astronaut Virgil Grissom, whose death in a launchpad fire in 1967 led to NASA contractor, died on Saturday at home in Houston. She was 91. …

[ad_1] A man died in D.C. Wednesday after he tried to use a Metro station escalator while sitting in a wheelchair and fell backward, officials say. The man, who was not immediately …

[ad_1] Tex Winter, introduced here as a Lakers assistant in 2000, died at the age of 96.(Photo: MATT YORK, Associated Press) Winter basketball innovator Fred "Tex" Winter, a member of the basketball …

[ad_1] Fred "Tex", former assistant coach of the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, died Wednesday at the age of 96, confirmed the Bulls' organization. Winter is best remembered for being the …

[ad_1] Former Tex Winter coach, who pioneered the offensive triangle that propelled the Chicago Bullers and Los Angeles Lakers to multiple NBA championships, went off Wednesday at the same time. 96 years …

[ad_1] Martine Powers Reporter covering the subway network and transportation issues October 10 at 19:00 A man died after his motorized wheelchair fell into a escalator at Columbia Heights metro station Wednesday …

[ad_1] Alan O Brieninhala the tip of his e-cigarette and smashed it into his lungs, possibly requiring surgery. (SWNS) A man trying to give up his smoking habit "almost died" after accidentally …