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Six teenagers were killed and two others were injured after the SUV they were in flipped into a pond in northeast Ohio on Sunday morning, news sources reported.

Investigators say the Honda Passport hit a guardrail, flipped over into a pond, and sank with five passengers trapped inside, and a sixth was thrown from the SUV and found under it when the vehicle was removed from the water, according to the Associated Press.

The two survivors that escaped ran to a nearby home to call 911, USA Today reported.

The teens, ages 14 to 19, took the vehicle without permission, the Associated Press reported.

Police said the SUV was traveling over 70 mph when the driver lost control, according to USA Today.

Fast food accounted for about 11 percent of American adults' daily calorie intake from 2007 to 2010, a decrease from previous years, according to news sources.

The National Center for Health Statistics released the findings from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey on Thursday.

The survey found that the daily fast food calorie percent has decreased since 2003-2006, when it was almost 13 percent, according to Health Day.

The largest decline was in 40- to 59-year-olds, said Cynthia L. Ogden, a C.D.C. researcher who oversaw the research, according to the New York Times.

The study also found that about 20 percent of the calories consumed by non-Hispanic black adults ages 20 to 39 are from fast food, as reported in the brief on the C.D.C. website.

"Fast food is a fact of life, so we need to find ways we can live with it, not die from it," said Samantha Heller, a clinical nutritionist at the NYU Center for Musculoskeletal Care in New York City, as reported by Health Today.

"We need to encourage fast-food establishments to have a variety of healthy offerings that are marketed as cool, sexy, fun and delicious," Heller said to Health Today.

Additional findings from the survey can be found on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website.

A deadly winter storm left many in the Northeast without power and caused the death of at least nine people, news sources reported.

Areas of the Northeast are currently buried in over three inches of snow after record-setting blizzard "Nemo" hit Friday. The storm caused power-outages to 650,000 homes and businesses at one point and many car-related accidents, USA Today reported.

The storm was said to be the cause of at least nine deaths in the East Coast and areas in Canada, according to Fox 31 Denver.

One of the nine deaths was an 11-year-old boy in Boston who was poisoned by carbon monoxide while his father shoveled out their car, USA Today reported.

At least eight people were killed and 38 were injured after colliding with two other vehicles on a Southern California mountain road Sunday night, news sources report.
California Highway Patrol spokesman Mario Lopez said the tour bus rear-ended a sedan and then flipped over and collided with a pickup truck at about 6:30 pm (PST) , ABC News reported.
Firefighters worked for over two hours to extricate all of the injured passengers from the bus. Officials said over two dozen people were transported to area hospitals and at least six were in critical condition, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Department of Transportation spokeswoman Michelle Profant said the passengers were a tour group from Tijuana, Mexico, according to ABC News.
"It happened so fast, I don't know how it all happened," one passenger said to the San Bernardino Sun, as reported by the Los Angeles Times.