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University of Georgia student dancing on couch near window falls 8 stories and survives

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A University of Georgia student survived a plunge from her eighth-floor apartment, authorities said Monday, after she had been “dancing on a couch near a window” and fell out.

The terrifying fall from the Rambler Athens Apartments at 558 W. Broad St. in Athens happened at about 7:30 p.m. Saturday, according to police records.

The “student was dancing on a couch near a window that was open” and “fell from the 8 th floor window and landed on the pool deck below,” the Athens-Clarke County Police Department said in a statement to NBC News.

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CDC reports second measles death in US while excluding Pennsylvania deaths

Pennsylvania has reported over 900 measles cases and four deaths as governor and health chief RFK Jr spar over data A second measles death in the US has been announced on Tuesday by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as the country grapples with an outbreak affecting 47 states. As of 24 September, a total of 3,659 measles cases have been confirmed by the CDC, with the two deaths having been confirmed on Tuesday. The confirmation did not specify in which states the deaths had occurred.

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