THE private party following a “zombie rave” was winding down when a man walked out, returned to the house wearing bandoliers of shotgun shells and opened fire on the young crowd.

A medical helicopter returning to its base with a pilot and two nurses aboard crashed into Puget Sound just north of Edmonds, Washington State apparently killing all three people, authorities said.

A 17-year-old girl who survived eight days after her car crashed and tumbled 200 feet down a ravine may have been saved by her own dehydration, which prevented the expansion of a blood clot in her brain.