A northwest Houston man was clinging to life at the hospital Thursday, almost a week after authorities said his teenage girlfriend scalded him with boiling water.

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Wrongly pronounced dead woman dies of shock at own funeral

"Cats are said to have nine lives, but some humans apparently have two - at least that's seems to be the case when you look at the story of Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov.

Mukhametzyanov died from a heart attack that was prompted by waking up to see she had been wrongly declared dead and placed in a coffin."

A 26-year-old woman who was reported missing a month ago was trying to enter a downtown restaurant through its ventilation system when she became trapped and died, police said.

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Study: Prescription drug deaths increasing

Accidental drug overdoses from prescription pills have more than doubled in the past decade as deaths from illegal drugs decreased, a Florida study found. Prescription medications were implicated in 76 percent of all overdose deaths in Florida between 2003 and 2009, while illicit drugs such as cocaine and heroin were present in 34 percent of deaths, according to data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Ten percent of overdoses came from a mix of both illegal and prescription drugs. Unintentional poisoning is the second leading cause of injury death in the U.S. after automobile accidents, accounting for 29,846 deaths nationwide in 2007, the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report said.

Police say William John Morris III hit another man's head so hard that a nearby waitress was badly cut by the flying glass shards from Morris' busted beer mug.

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An Austin man tried to kill his mother by flooding her East Austin home with natural gas, according to an arrest affidavit.

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SAN FRANCISCO - A Northern California woman has been accused of knowingly killing her infant son by breast-feeding him shortly after ingesting large amounts of methamphetamine, which rendered her milk toxic.

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A man is in custody after police say he threatened another man with a pickaxe and hit him with a beer bottle in a North Austin club early Saturday.

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A 30-year-old man who slept nude on a boat dock suffered second-degree burns on 40 percent of his body and was taken to the hospital by helicopter, according to Austin-Travis County EMS spokesman Warren Hassinger.

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A 26-year-old San Diego man was arrested Saturday on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon: a skateboard.

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"Dallas police said they are searching for a man accused of striking a woman twice with a frozen armadillo while negotiating about the price of the carcass."

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Yuck!! Who would eat an Armadillo considering they carry Hansen's Disease (aka Leprosy)?

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A local transient suspected of beating a 74-year-old man to death with a baseball bat inside a Southern California Walmart store was scheduled to make his first court appearance Thursday, sheriff�s homicide detectives said.

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Tennessee Man, 37, Arrested For Assaulting His Mother With A Ham

November 17, 2011

A Tennessee man is facing a domestic assault charge after he allegedly struck his mother with a ham during an argument Tuesday afternoon in their home.

Emanuel Cordell Kennedy, 37, was collared after his mother told cops that she was hit in the back with the thrown ham as she was walking down the hall, according to a Union City Police Department report excerpted here.

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GEORGETOWN - A Hutto man accused of burning his wife with an iron brought court to a brief standstill Wednesday when he testified that his wife attacked him with a sex toy.

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[Jury just found defendant guilty and made affirmative finding that iron was a deadly weapon. On to punishment.]

Dante Autullo was sure he'd merely cut himself with a nail gun while building a shed, and thought doctors were joking when they told him what an X-ray revealed: A 3 1/4-inch nail was lodged in the middle of his brain.


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Quake had a far-reaching impact.

"We heard about vodka-soaked tampons probably three to four years ago. One day we got a phone call that there were kids using it," said Angie Garza with the Prevention and Resource Center.

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