The reigning Miss Deaf Texas is killed after being struck by a train, Monday. According to authorities, 18-year-old Tara Rose McAvoy was walking near railroad tracks when she was struck by a Union Pacific train. A witness tells Austin television station KTBC the train sounded its horn right up until the accident occurred.

New York transit police continues to arrest a transgender person for using the women's restroom at Grand Central Terminal. Helena Stone, 70 is in transition from male to female. She accuses an officer of calling her "a freak, a weirdo, and the ugliest woman in the world. "

A freak accident killed a Brazilian policeman in the city of Belo Horizonte on Monday. Thiago Ribeiro Trindade, 23, went into a car parts shop to buy a light. When he placed his backpack on the counter, it exploded and killed him.

A man who missed twice while aiming to shoot a friend's cow only to accidentally shoot a passer-by in the leg is fined for what an Australian court called a freak accident. Rudolf Stadler, 61, agreed in April last year to shoot the meddling cow which belonged to a friend who owns a hobby farm at Caboolture in tropical Queensland state.