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It's not clear who will pick up the bill for this. View the full article

Some have compared the tempest to the so-called Perfect Storm. This NOAA satellite image taken Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012, provided by the National Hurricane Center shows a Category 2 Hurricane Sandy moving northward across eastern Cuba. All the spare parts appear to be coming together to create what forecasters are calling "Frankenstorm," a monster combination of high wind, heavy rain, extreme tides and maybe snow that could cause havoc along the East Coast just before Halloween next week. (AP Photo/NOAA) View the full article

Never before has this particular fungus been found to cause meningitis. FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012 file photo, laboratory technician Ruth Rutledge packages cerebrospinal fluid of three confirmed meningitis cases in Minn., to send to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta for further testing, at the Minnesota Department of Health in St. Paul, Minn. The black mold creeping into the spines of hundreds of people who got tainted shots for back pain marks uncharted medical territory. Doctors are beginning to detail in medical journals the first deaths in this outbreak, and the grim autopsy findings make clear that treating early is crucial, before the fungus becomes entrenched. (AP Photo/Hannah Foslien) View the full article

A 12-year-old boy was airlifted to the hospital. View the full article

The paramedic was treating the woman's husband when she threw the knife. View the full article

Nanny suffered self-inflicted wounds to the neck. In this video image taken from Eyewitness News 7online.com, an adult victim is removed from a residence in New York City’s Upper West Side, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. A mother returned home to her luxury apartment building near Central Park to find two of her small children stabbed to death in a bathtub and their nanny, with self-inflicted stab wounds, lying near them, police said. The nanny was hospitalized in critical condition and was in police custody, and authorities said she is suspected of killing the children, who were pronounced dead at a hospital. (AP Photo/WABC-TV, Eyewitness News, 7online.com) View the full article

Six students taken to hospital to be checked for possible injuries. View the full article

Ambulance crew helped corral the large bull into a separate fenced area. A longhorn bull, its horns and head covered with what appeared to be blood, bellows as ambulance personnel and Sheriff's deputies investigate the scene where a man was gored to death by the bull at a ranch north of Shepherd , Mont., on Thursday morning, Oct. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/The Billings Gazette, Larry Mayer) View the full article

Squad staffed ambulances with unqualified personnel and allowed unauthorized access to prescription medication. View the full article

Unusual hybrid of hurricane and winter storm likely to hit U.S. East Coast. Waves, brought by Hurricane Sandy, crash on a house in the Caribbean Terrace neighborhood in eastern Kingston, Jamaica, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. Hurricane Sandy pounded Jamaica with heavy rain as it headed for landfall near the country's most populous city on a track that would carry it across the Caribbean island to Cuba, and a possible threat to Florida. (AP Photo/Collin Reid) View the full article

Researchers looked at over 200 hospitals in California. View the full article

Extra tests on spinal tap fluid showed the presence of Aspergillus fumigatus. View the full article

Cases have been reported in 17 states. View the full article

The study is one of the largest to show how race, income and other characteristics combine to affect someone's willingness to offer heart-reviving help. View the full article

Three people were transported to the hospital. View the full article

Establishing a single professional standard, advocates argue, would guarantee that all patients receive a uniform level of care. View the full article

He dragged himself four miles over three days before a motorist stopped to help. Ricky Gilmore, 49, shows the pair of pants he was wearing when he dragged himself four miles down a road for three days last week near Tocito, N.M. after a man and woman he met while he was hitchhiking left him without his wheelchair, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012 in Farmington, N.M. (AP Photo/The Daily Times, Augusta Liddic) View the full article

Weather forced crews to hike through snow and ice. View the full article

New legislation directs cases and pushes for increased penalties. Fire Commissioner Salvatore Cassano joined Kings County District Attorney Charles Hynes, Brooklyn officials and numerous EMS members on Oct. 23 to announce a new initiative aimed at protecting paramedics and EMTs from assaults committed against them. (FDNY photo) View the full article

The bomb turned the glass of the apartment into flying knives. Jennifer Shedid, 10, recovers in intensive care in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday Oct. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) View the full article

Unoccupied truck rolled down a hill striking the bus. Police investigators work at the scene of a transit accident in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012. An untended dump truck rolled down a Hollywood street Tuesday and smashed into a commuter bus, which then collided head-on with a car and left 27 people injured, authorities said. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) View the full article

Firefighters donned biohazard suits to remove bed-ridden woman. Woman had bedsores and was found in her own waste. (WDIV photo) View the full article

Noticeable depression left in lawn. View the full article

Driver of jackknifed truck had to be extricated from the wreckage. View the full article

Helicopter crashes 30 miles off Scotland. View the full article