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International tourist dies after motorcycle plunges 100 feet in Great Smoky Mountains

By Matthew A. Garcia 3 weeks ago

The Daily Beast

Prosecutors Say Floyd Died Because Chauvin’s ‘Heart Was Too Small’ as Case Heads to Jury

REUTERS/Jane RosenbergAs Derek Chauvin’s murder trial comes to a close, both sides made their closing arguments on Monday, with prosecutors insisting the former Minneapolis cop’s fatal arrest of George Floyd wasn’t “policing” but “murder”—as his defense claimed he used “reasonable” force.Prosecutors on Monday detailed to jurors in Hennepin County court how Chauvin’s decision to press his knee into the 46-year-old Black man’s neck while he repeated that he could not breathe was unjustifiable and inhumane.“The truth of the matter is that the reason that George Floyd is dead is that Mr. Chauvin’s heart was too small,” special prosecutor Jerry Blackwell said Monday just before the case was sent to the 12-member jury.Prosecutor Steve Schleicher also insisted the officer “knew better; he just didn’t do better” during Floyd’s May 25 arrest over a

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Fort Bliss soldier dies after motorcycle crash in East El Paso

By Matthew A. Garcia 3 weeks ago

A young Fort Bliss soldier has died after being hospitalized for five days following a motorcycle crash in East El Paso.

Spc. Ethan Harvey Mandel, 20, was mortally injured in an April 5 motorcycle crash on George Dieter Drive near Trawood Drive, according to El Paso police and an online fundraising page set up by family.

“I’m so very sad and sorry tell you that our beautiful boy Ethan lefts us yesterday evening. Our hearts are broken,” a GoFundMe page stated Sunday.

About 1:15 a.m. on April 5, Mandel was riding a 2008 Honda CBR motorcycle southbound on George Dieter Drive at a high speed, police said.

Mandel failed to negotiate a curve, hopped a curb and hit landscaping bushes and rocks on the center median, a police news release stated.

Police said Mandel was thrown from the motorcycle, landing on the northbound lanes of George Dieter. Mandel, who was

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Motorcycle passenger dies in Lyman crash, driver injured

By Matthew A. Garcia 4 weeks ago

Motorcycle passenger dies in Lyman crash, driver injured

A Massachusetts woman died this morning after being thrown from a motorcycle during a crash.


Maine State Police say a Massachusetts woman died Saturday morning when she was thrown from a motorcycle during a crash. According to police, 50-year-old Anne Stout was the passenger on the back of the motorcycle and 51-year-old Gerald Gibson of Sanford was the driver. Police say the crash happened on Old Berwick Road in Lyman around 11:30 a.m. when Gibson drove on the soft shoulder, left the road and then crashed into a small ditch. Police say both Gibson and Stout were not wearing helmets. Gibson was transported to Maine Medical Center with minor injuries.

LYMAN, Maine —

Maine State Police say a Massachusetts woman died Saturday morning when she was thrown from a motorcycle during a crash.

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Beverly Cleary, Children’s Author of ‘Ramona’ Books and ‘The Mouse and the Motorcycle,’ Dies at 104

By Matthew A. Garcia 1 month ago

Beverly Cleary, the beloved children’s book author of the “Ramona” series and “The Mouse and the Motorcycle,” has died. She was 104.

Yes, 104. Cleary’s first book, “Henry Huggins,” was published more than 70 years ago, way back in 1950.

Cleary died Thursday in Carmel, California, where she’d lived since the 1960s, according to her publisher HarperCollins. Cleary was born Beverly Bunn on April 12, 1916, in McMinnville, Oregon.

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Cleary spent her early years on the family farm in Yamhill, Oregon. There, her mom set up a library for the town. Young Beverly’s love of books was born in that lodge room above a bank. That didn’t mean she was instantly a great writer. Cleary wasn’t even a good reader.

When her family moved to Portland, Cleary was placed in the local grammar school’s circle for struggling

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