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Thankfully no one was injured during this fiasco.

ShortNews – the News-Community.

In Barteswille, Oklahoma, an unfortunate incident occurred. It happened that a mother, Lindsey Fiddler, when she was washing somehow put her ten-day-old baby into the washing machine with the clothes. The baby went through an
entire spin cycle.

A relative of her discovered the case who was called in. Unfortunately the baby was died already on arrival at hospital. For this the mother is charged with second degree manslaughter. Fiddler was arrested on drug charges before.

Police are continuing their investigation on this unfortunate case.

Teacher dies in fall from Palmer House stairwell – Chicago Breaking News.

Megan Duskey was looking forward to a Halloween night out in Chicago with some of her best friends.

The Chicago schoolteacher and a group of girlfriends she had known most of her life had scored tickets to a sold-out Haunted Hotel Ball at the Palmer House Hilton, and Duskey was going as glamorous superhero Silk Spectre from the movie “Watchmen.”

Duskey, 23, and her friends were there half an hour Saturday night when she playfully attempted to slide down a banister rail and fell four stories to her death, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

“We had just gotten there,” said Ellie Pessetto, a friend of Duskey’s from childhood who had stepped away from the stairwell moments before Duskey fell. When Pessetto returned to the stairs, she saw two of her friends crumpled to the floor, in hysterics.

“I couldn’t even understand what they were saying,” Pessetto said. “Then someone said (Megan) fell.”

A cousin of Duskey’s had raced down the stairs and was holding Duskey’s body when firefighters arrived, Pessetto said. Later, they noticed a mark on the cousin’s arm where firefighters had had to pull her away from Duskey.

“(The cousin) just said, ‘She’s gone.’ She knew she was gone,” Pessetto said.

The medical examiner said Duskey died instantly of head trauma. Alcohol was not a factor in the accident, police said.

The fall took place at 10:30 p.m., bringing an end to the ball just hours after it had begun. The party, which had been set to run until 2 a.m. with more than 2,000 guests, included reserved tables that cost more than $1,000 apiece. Duskey and her group, which included a cousin, a college roommate and other close friends, got tickets from a friend whose company had paid for a table, Pessetto said.