accidents and disasters

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A woman accused of intentionally plowing a car carrying her child through crowds of pedestrians on a Las Vegas Strip sidewalk is dist...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A woman accused of intentionally plowing a car with her child inside through crowds of pedestrians on a Las Vegas Strip sidewalk has ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — A grand jury is set to decide whether to indict the truck driver who slammed into a limo carrying Tracy Morgan, killing one...

SHENZHEN, China (AP) — Questions mounted Tuesday about why leaders in southern China's most prominent manufacturing city didn't act to prevent the col...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sudden cardiac arrest may not always be so sudden: New research suggests a lot of people may ignore potentially life-saving warning ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A driver with a 3-year-old in her car repeatedly smashed into crowds of visitors on the Las Vegas Strip, killing a woman from Arizona...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Rescuers pulled five bodies from the wreckage of a small plane that crashed into an orchard in central California after van...

MOSCOW (AP) — A suspected natural gas explosion hit an apartment building in a southern Russian city on Sunday, killing one person and injuring eight ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A fake explosive rigged with cardboard, sheets of paper and a household timer forced an Air France flight into an emergency land...

PHOENIX (AP) — A medical helicopter crashed in rugged terrain east of Phoenix, killing two crew members and seriously injuring a third, who was still ...

LEER, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan's civil war took away everything that had been precious to Mary Nyak Chot. "All my children were killed. The youn...

HAWTHORNE, Calif. (AP) — Vandals spray-painted graffiti about Jesus at two mosques in the Southern California city of Hawthorne and left a device that...

COACHELLA, Calif. (AP) — A 23-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of committing a hate crime and arson in connection with a Southern Californi...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A car bomb explosion that was claimed by the Taliban hit a diplomatic area of central Kabul on Friday, killing a Spanish pol...

MCFARLAND, Calif. (AP) — A medical helicopter carrying a patient to a hospital crashed amid heavy rain and fog in California's agricultural San Joaqui...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Interior Secretary Sally Jewell says she's seen no evidence of criminal negligence in a toxic wastewater spill triggered by fed...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian police have handed over a puppy to the French ambassador in Moscow to replace a French police dog killed in a raid, a show of so...

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A huge explosion killed the governor of Yemen's southern Aden province and six of his bodyguards on Sunday, security officials sai...

CAIRO (AP) — Two men who were denied entry to a nightclub later returned with others and firebombed it early Friday, setting off a blaze that killed a...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Surrounded by TV cameras outside a federal courthouse, former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship stood quietly and let his att...