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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — A sixth child has died of injuries sustained when a school bus careened off a road and smashed into a tree in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Police say bus driver Johnthony Walker was traveling well over the posted 30 mph limit Monday when he lost control of the bus. Right now, the 24-year-old is charged with five counts of vehicular homicide.
DETROIT (AP) — A Wayne State University police officer has died a day after he was shot in the head while on patrol near the Detroit campus. Twenty-nine-year-old Officer Collin Rose was on duty Tuesday evening when he radioed to say he was investigating possible thefts of navigation systems from vehicles and that he was about to speak to someone on a bike. Officers who arrived on the scene found Rose on the ground. Police say a suspect in the shooting was arrested Tuesday night.
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has selected two women for his cabinet. Trump has asked South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and charter school advocate Betsy DeVos to lead the Department of Education. A senior Trump adviser says Trump is expected to select billionaire investor Wilbur Ross Jr. to lead the Commerce Department.
ELYRIA, Ohio (AP) — Multiple people were hospitalized in Elyria (eh-LEER'-ee-uh), Ohio after 70 employees at an automotive business were exposed to carbon monoxide fumes. Lorain County Automotive Systems was evacuated Wednesday night after an employee reported having chest pains and several others became sick from exposure to the toxic fumes. Several people passed out. Firefighters picked up high readings of carbon monoxide in the air. The plant manager tells WEWS-TV that the building's heating ventilation system failed.
BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University researchers say they've solved the mystery behind one of Boston's most peculiar disasters — the Great Molasses Flood of 1919, in which 21 people were killed and 150 were injured. Harvard scientists say the disaster was so great because a giant storage tank that ruptured had just been topped off with warm molasses from the Caribbean, and it hadn't yet cooled to Boston's January temperatures. When the tank gave way, the molasses quickly thickened, trapping people and complicating rescue efforts.
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