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Officials say Tiger Woods has been released on bail hours after he was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. Officials say his Land Rover clipped a truck and rolled onto its side. The sheriff's office says he was released from jail late Friday. Florida law required that he spend at least eight hours in jail before he could post bail. He was not injured in the crash. Sheriff John Budensiek says Woods had been traveling at “high speeds” on a residential road and after the crash showed “signs of impairment." Woods’ manager at Excel Sports did not immediately respond to a text message seeking comment.

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Officials say a school bus crash in west Tennessee has killed two students and injured at least seven other people. The Tennessee Highway Patrol says the crash involved a Tennessee Department of Transportation dump truck, a Chevrolet Trailblazer and the school bus. The crash happened at about noon Friday on Highway 70 in Carroll County. Officials say the school bus was carrying students and employees from Kenwood Middle School in Clarksville for a field trip to Jackson, Tennessee. The cause of the crash is under investigation. The school’s principal, Karen Miller, said counselors will be available starting Monday.

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The runway where a plane collided with a fire truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, killing the two pilots and injuring several others, has reopened. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says the tarmac resumed operations at around 10 a.m. Thursday after the runway and its associated infrastructure were repaired and inspected. The destroyed Air Canada plane and the fire truck were towed from the crash site late Wednesday. The crash happened late Sunday night as the jet arriving from Montreal struck an airport fire truck responding to a separate incident aboard another plane.

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All but four of the passengers injured in Sunday’s deadly collision between an Air Canada plane and a fire truck at New York's LaGuardia Airport have been released from the hospital. The airline made the announcement Wednesday, as crews began towing the wreckage of the plane off a LaGuardia runway. Workers were seen lifting the jet’s tail end onto a large dolly, which was then towed by two vehicles using long tethers. The plane originated in Montreal and was carrying 76 people during Sunday's collision, which killed two pilots. Roughly 40 people were treated at hospitals for injuries, some serious.

The systems in place at LaGuardia Airport to prevent collisions failed to keep an Air Canada jet from smashing into a fire truck that had just pulled out on the runway as the plane was landing. The National Transportation Safety Board will determine what went wrong before Sunday’s crash that killed both pilots and injured dozens of others. One of the two air traffic controllers on duty that night cleared the fire truck to cross the runway just 12 seconds before the plane carrying 76 people touched down. There will almost certainly be multiple factors that contributed to the crash. Investigators are just beginning their work to identify the cause and what should be done to prevent similar tragedies.

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Federal investigators say one of only two air traffic controllers on duty at LaGuardia Airport cleared a fire truck to cross a runway just 12 seconds before an Air Canada flight touched down, leaving little time to avoid the collision that killed both pilots. The National Transportation Safety Board is working to determine which of the airport’s layers of safety precautions failed and allowed the fire truck onto the runway Sunday night. Among the areas being explored are whether the common practice of two controllers on duty overnight is enough and why a runway warning system didn’t alert the possibility of a crash. The plane carrying more than 70 people slammed into the fire truck, killing two pilots.