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           Carson Cancels Campaign Events after Staff in Fatal Crash

   by Reuters

   Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson canceled public events
   Tuesday after a van carrying three volunteers and a campaign staffer
   slid on ice in Iowa, flipped on its side and was hit by another
   vehicle, his campaign said.

   One of the volunteers, Braden Joplin, 25, died after being taken to a
   trauma center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha,
   the hospital said in a statement released by the Carson campaign.

   The other three people were treated and released from a hospital in
   Atlantic, Iowa, the statement said.

   Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, was traveling from South Carolina to
   Omaha where he planned to meet with Joplin's family members and offer
   his condolences, the hospital statement said.

   Carson is among a dozen Republican presidential candidates
   crisscrossing Iowa before the state's February 1 caucuses, the nation's
   first contest to determine the party's nominee in November's
   presidential election.
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