Dick Butkus, Pro Football Hall of Famer, dies at 80

Former Chicago Bears linebacker and Pro Football Hall of Famer Dick Butkus has died at the age of 80, the team announced Thursday.

Butkus died “peacefully in his sleep overnight at home in Malibu,” California, a statement from his family, posted by the Bears on social media, reads.

A ferocious hitter, Butkus was an imposing force as the Bears’ middle linebacker for nine seasons in the 1960s and 1970s, and made eight Pro Bowls. 

dead at 80

he died in Malibu California

California in the news Speaker McCarthy born in 65

California=65

championship--57

10/3 manager birthday...MCcarthy gets voted out

drafted in '65

119th World Series..he's 6'3"..major league baseball=63

Bus crash near Venice kills 21 people

 At least 21 people were killed, including two children, when a passenger bus plunged from a bridge in Mestre, Italy, near Venice on Tuesday, in what has been described as an “apocalyptic scene.”

The bus was traveling from Venice to nearby Marghera and was “full of people returning home from work,” Venice mayor Luigi Brugnaro told state media RAI.

“It completely went off the road, it flew off the bridge. It was a bus; it was a highway. We are in mourning,” he added. Brugnaro described the scene as “apocalyptic” in a post on Facebook.

Francesco Martino, chief of staff of the prefecture of Venice, told CNN that 18 people were also injured in the crash and that authorities were still trying to determine what caused it.

The accident occurred on the overpass of a road that leads from Mestre to Marghera and the A4 motorway, Italian media skytg24 reported.

championship=68

Powerful earthquakes kill at least 100 in western Afghanistan, UN says

 

on 10/7..107

struck

107/28th prime

“Mahal Wadakah is understood to be the worst affected village,” the UN said, reporting at least 20 deaths