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'Nothing Wrong' with 13 in car
A teacher who had 12 passengers in a Volvo S70 denied dangerous driving yesterday. Magistrates heard that Abraham Gniwosch, 30, had a man and a girl aged 11 in the front. Ten more people were in the back – two women with babies on their laps and six children under the age of ten, some of them standing. The car is designed to seat five people.

Woman faces trial over apple core
A woman is to stand trial at crown court for allegedly throwing an apple core out of her car window. Kate Badger, from Cornwall Road in Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, denies a charge of "knowingly causing the deposit of controlled waste, namely an apple core, on land which did not have a waste management licence".

Sinkhole Shuts Down Major Highway in Denver

Baby Found Alive in Field After Deadly Tornadoes