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The fireworks in Miami had just concluded when a white, 32-foot (9.6-meter) boat carrying five young adults crashed violently with another vessel in the night.
The boat's operator was thrown overboard. Another passenger was tossed into the water, and two others left critically injured and unconscious.
With no one at the helm, the boat circled in the dark, crashing into a third vessel before a commercial salvage crew was able to pull up alongside it, jump aboard and bring it to a stop.
A leader in the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation was killed in an overnight traffic accident on the tribal grounds near Mayetta, authorities said.
Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation leaders identified the fatality victim as James M. Potter, who served as tribal council secretary.
The Kansas Highway Patrol confirmed Thursday morning that troopers were on the scene and were investigating the fatality accident.
Additional information, including the time and location of the crash, wasn’t immediately available.
The woman who died after a car careened off a cliff at Edgewater Park Sunday has been identified.
Edith Pandur, 88, of Medina, died at the Perkins Beach area about 1:30 p.m. Sunday, the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner said.
The car Pandur and her daughter were in plummeted over the edge of a cliff in the park's western end, landing upside down on boulders about 30 feet below. The car never hit the water, Cleveland fire department assistant chief Brent Collins said.
9-year-old Brooklyn, N.Y., girl leaving church on Sunday was killed in a three-car crash, The Daily News reports.
Fourth-grader Rebecca Ramnarine died at Brookdale University Hospital shortly after the late-afternoon accident, the news site notes. The driver who caused the crash is also the suspect in a hit-and-run collision that occurred before the accident that killed Rebecca.