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A 4-year-old, a 2-year-old, and a man and woman from Apex were using the stairs at the Sea Cabin condos on North Ocean Boulevard when they collapsed.

Apex family injured when stairway collapses at North Myrtle Beach condo

A North Carolina woman escaped with just minor injuries Monday after falling into a sinkhole at a used car dealership.




Winston-Salem woman falls in massive sinkhole in parking lot

A man has died days after police in Pennsylvania shot and killed an 18-foot snake that had wrapped itself around his neck.



outside the home of Elliott sense man chickens made their way to the fence inside. We could see some animals in cages and police say aside from the one snake that killed him. Others were in the home. My understanding was that there were two other snakes in the sense means family has been quoted as saying Elliot Sense men often urged caution when housing such animals and took in snakes that had been abused and neglected. It was one of those snakes, police say took the 27 year old's life. The officers walk into the hallway and they see the male, the victim lying on the floor, he's unresponsive, he's partially in the hallway and kind of partially in a like a back bedroom spare room. They observed a very large snake which has the midsection of the snake wrapped around the throat of the male. At that time, the midsection of the snake was wrapped around his neck, Which means it wasn't a defensive bite or attack on the human. It's just they have no arms and legs. They have no way to kind of like hold on except for their bodies and their bodies at 15 ft. That's pure muscle Rudy or seo of the Venom Institute says it doesn't appear the snake was on the attack. He's spent his life working with reptiles and helping others learn about them and how to care for them for four pillars of organization is conservation education, rehabilitation and training. He says pennsylvania has no laws on the books forbidding snake ownership, but certain towns and counties do that doesn't mean that people should be going willy nilly and just buy whatever they want and then not understanding the proper care and understand if it's dangerous or not, he says, since man's death should be a warning to others who simply want to own one of these animals, even those with experience can have accidents. There are a lot of people that love their animals that take care of them and they do very well. Animal welfare organizations say the sentiment family is working to help place the animals that Elliott left behind.

Man strangled by pet snake dies days after accident 

A man has died days after police in Pennsylvania shot and killed an 18-foot snake that had wrapped itself around his neck.

Man dies after being strangled by his 18-foot pet snake

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A tractor fell on a person Thursday night, resulting in their death, the Johnston County Sheriff's Office confirmed.



Person crushed by tractor in rural Johnston County 

For the first time, a  young mother from Sanford is speaking out after she was critically injured from being thrown from an ATV earlier this month. 

STREAMING AT >>> A SANFORD WOMAN SPEAKS ON WITH WRAL AFTER BEING CRITICALLY INJURED  IN AND A TO BE ACCIDENT WITH HER SISTER AT U.S. 1 IN LEE COUNTY AN INJURED WOMAN SPOKE WITH AMANDA LAMB FROM HER HOSPITAL BED. AMANDA IS LIVE FROM LEE COUNTY WITH THIS STORY. >> Reporter: THAT ATV FAIL 27 FEET FROM THIS RAILROAD BRIDGE TO U.S. 1 BELOW AND YOU CAN SEE THE WRITING ON THE BREACH ATTRIBUTED TO THE WOMAN THAT DIED, ALEXIS STONE AND HER SISTER CHELSEA COAT SHARES HER POWERFUL STORY WITH US. >> THEY HAD TO TAKE OUT WHAT WAS LEFT OF IT. >> Reporter: THE 22-YEAR-OLD CHELSEA HAS A LONG LIST OF INJURIES FROM THE ATV CASH ON THE EDGE OF THE BRIDGE THAT PUT HER IN THE HOSPITAL ON OCTOBER 10. >> IT WAS A 27 FOOT DROP WHERE I FAIL. THAT IS A LONG WAY DOWN. >> Reporter: THE BIGGEST INJURY WAS EMOTIONAL, THE LOSS OF HER SISTER, 26-YEAR-OLD ALEXIS STONE. >> I FEEL LOST AND EMPTY. SHE WAS FANTASTIC. SHE ALWAYS MADE SURE THAT EVERYONE AROUND HER WAS HAPPY BEFORE SHE WAS HAPPY. >> Reporter: ALEXIS WAS DRIVING AND CHELSEA SAID THE TWO WERE EXPERIENCED ATV DRIVERS AND HAD BEEN OVER THIS SPAN OF BRIDGE THAT CONTAINS TRAIN TRACKS MANY TIMES BEFORE. SHE DOES NOT KNOW WHY THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED. >> WE ALWAYS GO OVER THAT BRIDGE AND WE HAVE BEEN OVER IT 1 MILLION TIMES. I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED. I DON'T REALLY REMEMBER THE ACCIDENT THAT MUCH AT ALL. >> Reporter: WE DID REACH OUT TO THE HIGHWAY PATROL. THEY SAID THAT ATV SHOULD NOT BE RIDING ON TRAIN TRACKS AND THAT THEY ARE PRIVATE PROPERTY HERE IN NORTH CAROLINA. ON A BRIGHTER NOTE, CHELSEA COATES HAS BEEN RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL TO GO HOME TO HER HUSBAND AND TWO CHILDREN, HER FIVE-YEAR-OLD AND ONE-YEAR-OLD CHILDREN. FAMILY AND FRIENDS ARE RAISING MONEY TO HELP SUPPORT THEM THROUGH THIS RECOVERY. >> THAT IS SOME BIT OF GOOD

ATV crash surivor 'lost and kind of empty' after loss of sister from accident

Garner police said the man got too close to a creek and he and the lawnmower fell in. 

81-year-old killed in Garner lawnmower accident 

Man killed in Garner lawnmowing accident 

Jassica Steele, died Jan. 21. Family members said she had eaten a rubber suction cup used to hang something on a wall and suffocated while the rest of the family slept. The medical examiner's report confirmed that cause of death.

Raleigh child's choking death found to be an accident

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A Raleigh man died Friday after an intense wave hit him at Oak Island and broke his neck. His throat swelled, depriving him of oxygen.