- Disasters and accidents
- A Carolinian Amtrak passenger train (running north from Charlotte, North Carolina to New York City) hits a tractor-trailer in Halifax, North Carolina resulting in two cars of the train derailing with several people receiving minor injuries. (AP via MSN)
- Two helicopters collide in mid air in a remote area of northwest Argentina leaving at least ten dead. Among the dead are 24-year-old 2012 Summer Olympics gold medal swimmer Camille Muffat, yachtswoman Florence Arthaud and 2008 Summer Olympics bronze medal boxer Alexis Vastine. They were part of a group of French sports stars participating in a reality-television show called Dropped. (AP)(The Telegraph), (BBC)
- International relations
- Law and crime
- A man kills five people in the Japanese city of Sumoto in a prolonged stabbing attack. (ABC and AFP via ABC Australia)
- American film director Randall Miller pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter and criminal trespassing and will spend two years in county jail and another eight on probation in regards to the February 20, 2014 death of camera assistant Sarah Jones by a freight train on a bridge over the Altamaha River in Wayne County, Georgia (six other crew members were also injured) during filming of a biopic about singer Gregg Allman called Midnight Rider. (BBC)
- In a five-day national dragnet last week, Operation Cross Check, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) rounds up 2,059 people who had been convicted of crimes and had been living in the country illegally. Most were not violent criminals (none were implicated in terrorism; almost all the 912 misdemeanors were for driving under the influence, DWI; 476 of the felons were charged with an immigration violation, though some were convicted of manslaughter, robbery, rape, and child pornography). (Tribune Washington Bureau via MSN)
- Science and technology
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