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Contestants for this year’s Nathan's Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest weighed-in on Monday ahead of the July Fourth event in Coney Island, New York. (Video by: Robert Bumsted/Production: Vanessa A. Alvarez) (July 3)

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Joey Chestnut shakes off rain delay and defends title at Nathan's Fourth of July hot dog contest
By CAROLYN THOMPSON - Associated Press
Tue,07/04/23-11:35AM , 121 Reads
Eating superstar Joey “Jaws” Chestnut shook off a rain delay and gobbled his way to another win at Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July hot dog eating contest, downing 62 franks and buns in 10 minutes.
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Tour Guide Kyle Burkwit leads a group on the boat section during a tour of the Lockport Caves in Lockport, N.Y., on Aug. 21, 2014. A boat carrying hospitality workers capsized Monday, June 12, 2023, during a tour of the historic underground cavern system built to carry water from the Erie Canal beneath the western New York city of Lockport, killing one person who became trapped beneath the overturned vessel, officials said. (Mark Mulville/The Buffalo News via AP)

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Tour boat capsize in underground cave wasn't the first, agency says; passenger recounts ordeal
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Tue,06/13/23-9:34AM , 63 Reads
Soon after a tour boat flipped over during a tour of a dimly lit cavern system, leaving one passenger dead, members of another group recalled a similar experience while taking the same tour eight years ago and questioned whether anything had bee
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This photo provided by Jeremy Swiatowy shows rescue workers as they breach a wall with a sledgehammer, Monday, June 12, 2023, before shimming through the hole to help rescue people stuck inside the caves in Lockport, N.Y. One person was killed and multiple people were sent to local hospitals after a boat capsized on Monday, June 12, during a tour of an underground cavern system built to carry water from the Erie Canal beneath the western New York city of Lockport, officials said. (Jeremy Swiatowy via AP)

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1 dead after tour boat capsizes inside Erie Canal water tunnel cave in western New York
By CAROLYN THOMPSON - Associated Press
Mon,06/12/23-12:30PM , 61 Reads
A boat carrying hospitality workers capsized Monday during a tour of a historic underground cavern system built to carry water from the Erie Canal beneath the western New York city of Lockport, killing one person who became trapped beneath the overturned vessel, officials said.
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In this image taken from police surveillance video provided by New Haven Police, Richard "Randy" Cox slides down the back of a police van while being transported after being detained by New Haven Police on June 19, 2022, in New Haven, Conn. On Saturday, June 10, 2023, New Haven agreed to a $45 million settlement with Cox, who was paralyzed while being transported handcuffed and without a seat belt in the back of a police van last year. (New Haven Police via AP, File)

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Randy Cox, paralyzed in police van, reaches $45 million settlement with New Haven, Connecticut
By CAROLYN THOMPSON - Associated Press
Sat,06/10/23-12:40PM , 97 Reads
New Haven, Connecticut, has agreed to a $45 million settlement with Randy Cox, who was paralyzed while being transported handcuffed and without a seat belt in the back of a police van following his arrest last year, the city's mayor and attorneys said Saturday.
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