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WALL TOWNSHIP, N.J. – A small plane trying to land broke apart and tore through a snowy field next to a runway Monday afternoon, killing all five people aboard, including a teenager and a child, and scattering debris over 200 feet.

The crash was reported at 3:45 p.m. at Monmouth Executive Airport, about 35 miles east of Trenton, said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters. The weather was overcast, but no precipitation was falling.

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Vancouver, British Columbia (CNN) — The opening ceremony for the 2010 Winter Olympics began on a somber note Friday night as members of the delegation from Georgia mourned the loss of one of their teammates just hours earlier.

The seven-athlete delegation, wearing black armbands in tribute to luger Nodar Kumaritashvili, entered BC Place to a standing ovation from the more than 60,000 spectators in attendance. A black ribbon was tied atop the Georgian flag.

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(CNN) — A tanker ship loaded with oil in the Port of Port Arthur, Texas, collided with two barges being towed by a tug boat, resulting in a spill of about 450,000 gallons of crude, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

No injuries were reported, but a 50-block area around the port was evacuated out of caution, as the tanker was carrying a type of oil containing sulfide.

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(CNN) — The search for two missing hikers on Oregon’s Mount Hood has moved from a search operation into a recovery operation, authorities said Wednesday.

“It was our hope that we might get a window today to take a last look,” Clackamas County, Oregon, Sheriff Craig Roberts told reporters. “Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened.”

Anthony Vietti, 24; Luke Gullberg, 26; and Katie Nolan, 29, set out about 1 a.m. Friday on what was to have been a fairly easy “semi-technical” hike in which they would have descended the south side of the mountain, Sheriff’s Deputy Scott Meyers has said.

Gullberg was found dead Saturday from hypothermia.

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The youngest of five children, he was only 8 when his father died.

For three decades, he’d carried with him mere snapshots of memories: Family time at Christmas. Riding on the back of Dad’s motorcycle. Tommie Stephney’s love for drag-racing.

But as the 37-year-old Douglasville, Georgia, man set out September 22 to try and save a woman whose car was swept away by rushing waters, he thought of his father’s drowning. He, too, had fought to rescue people struggling against currents.

That was in 1979.

Tommie Stephney, a City of Atlanta employee, dove into the Chattahoochee River in Atlanta, Georgia, to save canoeists who’d flipped their boat, his son said. He safely brought two to shore. The third, he said, panicked — forcing them both under. It would be a week before his father’s body was found.

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In a report, the National Transportation Safety Board said that the controller at New Jersey’s Teterboro airport did not advise a pilot of potential traffic when he handed off radar monitoring of the plane to the tower at Newark airport at 11:52:20 a.m. Saturday.

But, union leaders said, the helicopter was not visible on radar scopes until 11:52:27, seven seconds after the transfer.

Union leaders said the NTSB’s statement that the controller could see the helicopter on his radar screen, and its implication that he could have provided a warning, is wrong.

The open disagreement, which violates the normal protocol of NTSB investigations, capped a bruising week for air traffic controllers.

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At first, Natasha Richardson said she felt fine after she took a spill on a Canadian ski slope. But that’s not unusual for people who suffer traumatic head injuries like the one that killed the actress.

Doctors say sometimes patients with brain injuries have what’s called a “lucid interval” where they act fine for an hour or more as the brain slowly, silently swells or bleeds. Later, back at her hotel, Richardson fell ill, complained of a headache, and was taken to a hospital. She died Wednesday in New York.

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LEARWATER, Fla. – The Coast Guard received no distress signal from a fishing boat that disappeared off Florida’s Gulf Coast while carrying two NFL players and two former college players.

The Coast Guard is searching a wide area for the 21-foot vessel carrying Corey Smith, a Detroit Lions free-agent defensive end, and Marquis Cooper, an Oakland Raiders linebacker. Will Bleakley and Nick Schuyler, both former University of South Florida players, were also aboard.

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(CBS/AP) Here in the Buffalo suburb of Clarence Center, the sadness and dismay linger on Saturday night as workers press their search for the cause of Thursday’s deadly air crash, reports CBS News correspondent Jeff Glor.

Officials say the recovery of bodies and debris will take days, not hours, the focus of the investigation appears to be on ice buildup and on the plane’s de-icing equipment, and more than 50 agencies are coordinating their efforts, including the National Transportation Safety Board and the FBI.

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Continental Connection Flight 3407, operated by Colgan Air, was en route from Newark, New Jersey, to Buffalo when it went down at around 10:20 p.m. The crash occurred about seven miles from Buffalo Niagara International Airport.

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NEW YORK – A US Airways pilot guided his jetliner into the frigid Hudson River after a flock of birds knocked out both its engines just after takeoff Thursday, and all 155 people on board were pulled to safety as the plane slowly sank. “We had a miracle on 34th Street. I believe now we have had a miracle on the Hudson,” Gov. David Paterson said.

One victim suffered two broken legs, a paramedic said, but there were no other reports of serious injuries.

The plane, an Airbus A320 that had taken off minutes earlier from LaGuardia Airport bound for Charlotte, N.C., was submerged up to its windows in the river when rescuers arrived in Coast Guard vessels and ferries. Some passengers waited in water up to their knees, standing on the wing of the plane for help.