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Woman Killed by Falling Gargoyle Head in Chicago

Aleksander Chan · 09/05/14 10:25AM

Sara Bean, 34, was walking back from lunch with her fiancé in Chicago's South Loop when a gust of wind blew past them, setting off a tragic sequence of events that ended with part of a stone gargoyle on the outer wall of the Second Presbyterian Church breaking off and striking Bean on the head. She died almost instantly, the Chicago Tribune reports.

Pamplona Bull Gores Author of How to Survive the Bulls of Pamplona

Adam Weinstein · 07/09/14 09:50AM

The guy on the ground in the Associated Press photo above is Bill Hillman, 35, of Chicago, who for more than a decade has run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, and just last month helped write the book on how to survive the ritual. Yesterday, the bull won. But it's not as bad as it looks!