The Pittsburgh area had received two feet of snow when Curtis Mitchell began calling emergency dispatchers around 2 o’clock in the morning on February 6th. In his first 911 call, he stated that his “entire stomach was in pain” according Dr. Ron Roth. His symptoms were judged to be non-life-threatening.

After two hours with no sign of the paramedics showing up, Mitchell placed a second call. He learned that an ambulance was stuck in the snow near a local bridge. He was asked if he could walk four blocks to meet the ambulance but he said his pain was too severe to leave his home sofa. His desperate cry for help was cancelled because he, the victim, was unable to walk through heavy snow drifts to and ambulance that should have been able to come get him.

It took ten calls to the emergency line 911 and almost thirty hours for paramedics to reach Curtis Mitchell. However, by the time they made it to his home, he was dead.

The publication has been cancelled for a controversial book about the bombing of Japan that Avatar director, James Cameron, had chosen to be the possible story line of a new movie. The oublisher, called Henry Holt and Company, said that the author, Charles Pellegrino, “was not able to answer” questions about The Last Train from Hiroshima, including whether two men written about in the book actually existed.

Pellegrino had previously stated that one of the people he supposedly interviewed had falsely claimed to be on a plane flying with the Enola Gay, a plane that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan in 1945.

The skier was pinned up against a tree and buried under 24 inches of snow, while the person the he was with anchored himself to a tree during the avalanche which slid 1,500 ft. and was 40 ft. wide.

The two skiers were with a group of four when they went on their own.

The Colorado Avalanche Information Center is now warning people about the high avalanche danger. Because 500 slides were recorded throughout the last week.

The fate of the whale that killed its trainer in Orlando, Florida yesterday has not yet been decided. This is the third time the animal has been involved in the death of a human. The trainer was petting the whale named Tilikum when she was grabbed by the ponytail and pulled into the water where she drowned. Earlier a policeman suggested she may have slipped and fallen into the tank, but members of the audience said that she had been dragged underwater by the whale. Trainers at Sea World said it was too early to say what would happen to the whale. SeaWorld has suspended killer whale shows at all its sites after Brancheau’s death. After similar incidents in the past, animals have often been transferred to another park.

This weekend in Honolulu, Hawaii the threat of a tsunami coming their way sent many citizens and tournists into immediate action to protect thier lives and their property.
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Marie Osmond, who is famous for co-hosting the TV show Donny & Marie in the 1970’s, growing up in a show business family, and more recently hawking weight-loss products, had a rather tragic weekend.
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Budget cuts have been in the works for Jefferson, Douglas, and Denver counties; and a recent report by the Denver Post is another example of why they’re needed.

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Ralston Valley’s spring musical this year is “Thoroughly Modern Millie” and tickets are on sale now.

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The Nissan Leaf, due to be available to the public in the later part of 2010, offers a completely electric ride, with zero emissions.

While Toyota made waves with its ever popular hybrid model the Prius, Nissan has decided to take the idea of hybrid cars and push it to the next level: Electric cars.  
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The body of Mary Hucks, 59, was found in the embankment off Highway 67 near Cripple Creek today.  Prior to this incident, she was last seen working as a nurse at Parkmoor Village Nursing Home in Colorado Springs last Monday.

The cause of the crash is undetermined, though officials believe she was travelling to or from Cripple Creek where she enjoyed playing slot machines.