2012-05-16 17:18:36
The U.S. Navy says an amphibious assault ship and a replenishment tanker collided in the Pacific Ocean but there were no injuries and no fuel spills.
A Third Fleet public affairs statement says the collision between the assault ship USS Essex and the oiler USNS Y......
2012-05-16 16:00:40
A newlywed was being held on a murder charge Wednesday after his pregnant wife staggered into a western Arkansas police station with a stab wound to her chest and collapsed.
Emergency responders rushed Celestia Duffin, who was nearly seven months pregnant, to a l......
2012-05-16 15:57:30
A New Jersey airport security supervisor accused of using a murdered man's identity to hide his illegal immigrant status apparently bought the man's birth certificate and Social Security number from an intermediary before his death, police said Wednesday.
Police ......
2012-05-16 13:51:38
As they search for suspects in two highway killings, authorities in northwest Mississippi are urging drivers to use caution when approached by any vehicle with flashing blue lights.
Investigators said Monday that two people shot along highways may have been kille......
2012-05-16 10:57:49
Authorities in northwest Mississippi are urging drivers to use caution when approached by any vehicle with flashing blue lights as investigators search for who was responsible for two highway killings.
On Monday, authorities said two people shot along highways ma......
2012-05-16 06:26:40
Investigators on Wednesday were analyzing the cockpit voice recorder from a Russian passenger jet that slammed into the side of an Indonesian volcano. They hope the final words of the two pilots will help explain what caused last week's crash, which killed all 45 people on board....
2012-05-15 21:58:04
A teenage driver is under arrest after authorities said the distraction of a handheld cellphone caused her to fatally hit a jogger, whose father blames his death on her "stupidity."
The death of 44-year-old Kenneth Dorsey in Norwalk and the subsequent c......
2012-05-15 20:16:08
Indonesian special forces have found the voice-and-data recorder of a new Russian passenger jet that slammed into a jagged, mist-shrouded cliff on a dormant volcano, an official said Wednesday.
The "black box" could help explain the cause of the deadly ......
2012-05-15 19:29:24
When former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger flies, he gets patted down by security agents just about every time.
The 88-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner was stopped again a few days ago as he passed security at New York's LaGuardia Airport on his way to Toron......
2012-05-15 19:03:35
Neither bad weather nor car accident nor even feeling bad could stop Gennesaret Sealy from attending school every single day, nor could they stop her brother before her.
Sealy is set to graduate June 5 from Loveless Academic Magnet Program High School in Montgome......
2012-05-15 17:42:28
A Newark Liberty Airport security supervisor pleaded not guilty to identity theft Tuesday as new details emerged about his alleged 20-year odyssey of deception, including that he may have assumed the identity of a New York man weeks before the man was murdered.
T......
2012-05-15 17:41:07
'PILING ON' AGAINST JANE ORIE IS CORRECT ON TAXPAYERS' BEHALF
A professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh characterizes it as "piling on," but prosecutors' attempt to force convicted state Sen. Jane Orie to repay more than $1.5 million in legal f......
2012-05-15 17:23:26
Neither bad weather nor car accident nor even feeling bad could stop Gennesaret Sealy from attending school every single day, nor could they stop her brother before her.
Sealy is set to graduate June 5 from Loveless Academic Magnet Program High School in Montgome......
2012-05-15 13:14:02
Missouri back-up quarterback Corbin Berkstresser has been arrested after reportedly leaving the scene of an early-morning car accident.
Columbia police say Berkstresser hit a parked car in an off-campus neighborhood early Tuesday but failed to stop. He was arrest......
2012-05-15 12:51:34
Ecuador's anti-narcotics chief says authorities have found $1.3 million in cash in a plane from Mexico that crashed into a rural hillside.
Gen. Juan Carlos Barragan says officials counted up the cash and also found the remains of two Mexican men and three dogs in......
2012-05-15 08:31:39
A southeastern Pennsylvania woman has died two days after the motorcycle she was riding on collided with a car.
Officials say 48-year-old Sharon Luma had been injured in a crash Saturday evening in Longswamp Township, Berks County. The Quakertown woman died Monda......
2012-05-15 08:21:01
A tractor-trailer crash in upstate New York has sent 18 tons of Greek yogurt spilling alongside a highway.
WBNG-TV reports (http://bit.ly/Jsknkj ) that a truck hauling 36,000 pounds of Chobani yogurt was traveling west on Interstate 88 when it crashed on a curve ......
2012-05-15 06:35:39
Neighbors say there's no crossing gate at the intersection where a Pennsylvania teen was killed when the car she was riding in was struck by a train.
The Northumberland County coroner's office says 17-year-old Maxine Eschbach died Monday when the car being driven......
2012-05-15 02:31:57
While studying abroad in Australia, Boston University junior Meg Theriault made sure to send flowers to her mother in Massachusetts before Mother's Day.
The bouquet arrived two days ahead of Sunday's holiday, with a note from the 21-year-old saying she would cele......
2012-05-14 22:37:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Roundabouts, those circular islands used to move traffic through intersections, may eventually find their way to Lancaster County.
The state Department of Transportation is making a pitch to local officials to begin installing roundabouts, particularly at intersections with a frequent cra......
2012-05-14 21:13:28
While studying abroad in Australia, Boston University junior Meg Theriault made sure to send flowers to her mother in Massachusetts before Mother's Day.
The bouquet arrived two days ahead of Sunday's holiday, with a note from the 21-year-old saying she would cele......
2012-05-14 20:20:16
Two shooting victims along Mississippi highways may have been killed by someone who posed as law enforcement and pulled them over late at night, authorities said Monday.
Investigators were not releasing many details, including whether they believe a single gunman......
2012-05-14 20:02:06
A Nigerian man used the identity of the victim in an unsolved murder to hide his status as an illegal immigrant while working undetected for two decades as a security guard and then a security supervisor at one of the United States' busiest airports, authorities said Monday in annou......
2012-05-14 18:44:32
The New York Giants have waived safety Chad Jones, their third-round draft pick in 2010 who was seriously injured in an automobile accident two months after being drafted.
In announcing the move on Monday, the Super Bowl champions said Jones was waived after fail......
2012-05-14 18:25:30
While studying abroad in Australia, Boston University junior Meg Theriault made sure to send flowers to her mother in Massachusetts before Mother's Day.
The bouquet arrived two days ahead of Sunday's holiday, with a note from the 21-year-old saying she would cele......
2012-05-14 17:47:47
Sailing's national governing body will try to determine what caused an accident that killed four sailors during last month's yacht race from Southern California to Mexico.
US Sailing has appointed an independent review panel to look into the destruction of the 37......
2012-05-14 17:22:40
A Mexican-registered plane carrying two men, a large amount of cash and a dog crashed in Ecuador, and officials said Monday that the aircraft had not filed a flight plan and they suspected the money might be related to drug trafficking.
The plane crashed into a h......
2012-05-14 16:12:26
Prosecutors in New Jersey have filed aggravated manslaughter charges against a Pennsylvania trucker who they say was sleep-deprived and driving under the influence of methamphetamine when he caused a deadly crash last month.
Brad L. Phillips also faces two counts......
2012-05-14 13:52:40
School officials say nearly two dozen students have been treated and released after a school bus accident in north-central Pennsylvania.
The Montgomery Area School District superintendent says the accident happened when the bus collided with a pickup truck Monday......
2012-05-14 07:44:42
A tow truck driver has been charged with homicide by vehicle after a Saturday afternoon crash.
Police say 50-year-old Duane C. Woodson of Pittsburgh crossed into the opposite lane and collided head-on with a vehicle driven by 45-year-old Christine Beilstein, of P......
2012-05-14 07:41:56
A plane crashed into a mountain in the Himalayas while trying to land at an airport in northern Nepal on Monday, killing 15 people and injuring six, some critically.
It was carrying two pilots and a flight attendant -- all Nepalese -- along with 16 Indians and tw......
2012-05-14 05:00:35
Police in the northern Philippines say a minibus so overloaded that passengers were riding on the rooftop has plunged into a 150-meter (500-foot) deep ravine. Eleven people are dead and another 10 injured.
Provincial police chief William Bequeno says the vehicle ......
2012-05-14 00:32:03
Police says a plane with 21 people on board has crashed in Nepal's northern mountains.......
2012-05-13 19:07:30
Ron Luce didn't recognize the voice of the woman who phoned Friday to say his daughter Hannah was with her, and was fine.
Her words didn't make any sense to the Texas minister and founder of a Christian organization that reaches out to troubled youths. How could ......
2012-05-13 18:20:20
A speeding car hit a support beam of a Chicago elevated train track, crashing with enough force for the vehicle to split in two and killing four female passengers inside, authorities said Sunday.
Family and friends grieving on Mother's Day said all four women wer......
2012-05-13 11:33:45
Indonesian special forces and professional climbers scaled down a treacherous ravine on a volcano face Sunday in search of the missing flight recorder that could explain the deadly crash of a Russian-made jetliner.
The Sukhoi Superjet-100 had 45 people aboard whe......
2012-05-13 10:55:41
Chicago authorities say a speeding car hit a support beam of an elevated train, crashing with enough force to split in two and killing four passengers.
The Cook County medical examiner's office says three women died at the scene. A fourth woman was later pronounc......
2012-05-13 01:46:48
Dozens of fledgling airlines that have sprung up to serve Indonesia's island-hopping new middle class could jeopardize the archipelago's recently improved safety reputation, aviation experts say.
The trend threatens to erode higher standards established during wh......
2012-05-12 23:22:41
A small airplane that crashed in southeast Kansas was carrying five people with connections to Oral Roberts University to a Christian youth rally in Iowa, a friend of three of the victims said Saturday.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported that four of the passenge......
2012-05-12 16:01:31
An aviation student who was the only survivor of a small plane crash in Pennsylvania picked up a diploma Saturday, and expressed his undiminished passion for flying, at a graduation ceremony at Farmingdale State University.
Evan Kisseloff, 21, of Oceanside, N.Y.,......
2012-05-12 05:31:47
A rescue official says a 50-meter (164-foot) Japanese trawler with 28 fishermen and a dog aboard has run aground off a popular Cape Town beach.
Craig Lambinon, spokesman for the National Sea Rescue Institute, said thick fog may have contributed to the accident ea......
2012-05-12 05:17:08
Vladimir Putin appeared to shed tears of joy the night he won back the presidency in March. After less than a week in office, he may be tempted to shed some in frustration.
Since his inauguration on Monday, the man whose 2000-2008 presidency was characterized by ......
2012-05-12 00:48:01
Clearer weather finally allowed Indonesian helicopters to land Saturday and retrieve some remains of the 45 people aboard a Russian-made plane that crashed into a volcano during a demonstration flight.
Investigators still have found no sign of the black box recor......
2012-05-11 22:41:05
Police say a school bus has crashed on its way back from an amusement park in eastern Pennsylvania and more than a dozen students have suffered minor injuries.
The bus collided with a car Friday evening near the on-ramp to Interstate 78, on the border of South Wh......
2012-05-11 21:25:08
A New York aviation student who survived a Pennsylvania plane crash that killed two fellow students has decided to attend his graduation three days later.
Farmingdale State University said Friday that Evan Kisseloff was expected at Saturday's commencement.
......
2012-05-11 20:59:00
The international airport for Guatemala's capital is back in operation after shutting down for a few hours when an older-model cargo plane experienced problems with its landing gear and a propeller during landing and skidded on the runway. No injuries were reported.
......
2012-05-11 20:43:20
The crash of a Russian-made passenger jet into the flanks of an Indonesian volcano has put a spotlight on the notoriously informal atmosphere aboard new aircraft during manufacturer demonstrations -- known here as "joy flights."
These junkets for potent......
2012-05-11 18:16:06
Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz is unhurt after a minor car accident on his way to Fenway Park.
WBZ-TV in Boston reported (http://cbsloc.al/JJNUBn) Ortiz was involved in the crash as he was leaving a gas station on Boylston Street on Friday afternoon. ......
2012-05-11 17:11:03
A federal appeals court judge leaned forward in his chair, turned his head to the Justice Department attorney defending the government's no-fly list and posed a frank question.
"Let's say you want to fly back to Washington, and you find yourself on the no-fl......
2012-05-11 16:32:47
A 911 dispatcher faces multiple charges for allegedly failing to report a car crash that involved a relative about 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
Police say 41-year-old Michael Kalp of Greensburg was charged Friday with obstruction, official oppression, giving......
2012-05-11 13:51:31
The sinking of two lobster boats is rekindling memories of hostilities among lobstermen three years ago that led to a near-fatal shooting, boats being sunk and a barrage of lobster trap vandalism along Maine's lobster-rich coast.
Someone this week sabotaged two l......
2012-05-11 13:50:21
Eric McClure remembers only bits and pieces of the accident that left him with a concussion and internal bruising.
He remembers thinking he was headed to his first career top-10 finish. And he remembers heading straight to the wall. But when he hit the brakes, no......
2012-05-11 12:34:35
Doctors are performing free reconstructive surgeries on people who have been scalped in freak boating accidents in Brazil's Amazon region.
The vice president of the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgeons tells the government's Agencia Brasil news service that some......
2012-05-11 11:18:16
The tugboat pilot convicted in the collision of a barge and tour boat that killed two Hungarian tourists says he could have avoided the crash if he'd stayed at his post.
KYW-AM (http://cbsloc.al/IIFfPx) reports that first mate Matt Devlin said in a taped depositi......
2012-05-11 03:04:07
An official says Indonesian climbers have found at least 10 bodies near the wreckage of a Russian-made jetliner that crashed into a steep volcano slope.
Search and rescue agency spokesman Gagah Prakoso says the bodies are being prepared to be transported from the......
2012-05-11 02:58:19
Official: Indonesia has recovered 10 bodies from the Russian jetliner crash.......
2012-05-10 20:15:53
A former New York police officer was sentenced Thursday to more than three years in prison for accepting cash payments from a man authorities say was an oxycodone trafficker to ensure he could carry large amounts of cash through airport security.
Michael Brady, w......
2012-05-10 17:33:59
A small plane that crashed near a northeastern Pennsylvania airport, killing two aviation students from a New York college and injuring a third, was not flying as any part of a college program, a spokesman said Thursday.
The pair who died in Wednesday night's cra......
2012-05-10 16:44:41
The attorney for a former Marine who pleaded guilty on Thursday to killing a man while driving drunk in Tampa blamed his client's post-traumatic stress disorder and a brain injury received while fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Scott Sciple, 38, pleaded guilty t......
2012-05-10 16:39:22
A judge on Thursday tossed out drunken driving charges against the former head of the Federal Aviation Administration after seeing video of the traffic stop and ruling that the officer had no legitimate reason to stop the driver.
Randy Babbitt, 65, resigned his p......
2012-05-10 15:38:50
Police said several smoke bombs were set off at multiple points in Montreal's subway system during morning rush hour Thursday, briefly cutting off service and creating a nightmarish morning commute.
Quebec Premier Jean Charest condemned the attack, saying he hope......
2012-05-10 15:38:26
A shimmy toward the body scanner, a step into the booth and a wave of the arms -- routine procedure now at U.S. airports, but not necessarily in Europe.
In the wake of a foiled al-Qaida plot to bomb a jet heading to the U.S., it's unclear whether cash-strapped Eu......
2012-05-10 11:37:51
Police say smoke bombs were set off at multiple points in Montreal's subway system, briefly cutting off service and creating a nightmarish morning commute.
Quebec Premier Jean Charest condemned the attack, saying he hopes the guilty parties are found.
......
2012-05-10 07:20:40
The embattled head of the federal government agency responsible for operating the U.S. portion of the St. Lawrence Seaway has stepped down.
The Watertown Daily Times reports (http://bit.ly/JfG72y ) that St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. Administrator Colliste......
2012-05-10 06:48:09
A skydiving plane that crashed near a New Zealand glacier in 2010, killing nine people, was overloaded because modifications for it to carry passengers were poorly managed, investigators concluded.
The report has prompted one victim's father to claim New Zealand'......
2012-05-10 03:43:13
Rescuers say they have discovered bodies near the wreckage of a Russian-made passenger plane that smashed into a steep Indonesian volcano with 45 people on board.
Search and rescue spokesman Gagah Prakoso said his teams reached the remote, rugged site near the cr......
2012-05-10 02:07:47
Officials in northeastern Pennsylvania say two people have been killed and a third has been injured in a small plane crash near an airport.
State police say the crash occurred at Spring Hill Airport in Wayne County at about 10:35 p.m. Wednesday.
......
2012-05-09 11:35:00
TIM MEKEEL
A small Florida airline could launch commercial flights between Lancaster and Dulles International Airport if it gets a larger federal subsidy.
Sun Air International offered to fly to the suburban Washington airport in a recent proposal to the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Th......
2012-05-09 20:11:14
Boston Red Sox public address announcer Carl Beane, the voice of Fenway Park whose booming baritone called ballplayers to the plate for two World Series champions, died on Wednesday after suffering a heart attack while driving. He was 59.
"We are filled with......
2012-05-09 20:00:42
The families of two Hungarian students killed two years ago when a tugboat-guided barge slammed into and sank their amphibious sightseeing boat in the Delaware River will split $15 million after a settlement was reached Wednesday, just days into a federal wrongful-death trial that h......
2012-05-09 18:35:41
The owner of an oil tanker that spilled 400 gallons of fuel into San Francisco Bay has agreed to pay nearly $2 million as part of a settlement with state and local authorities.
The settlement by South Harmony Shipping of Panama was filed in San Francisco County S......
2012-05-09 18:20:16
Airline pilot Denny Fitch was hitching a ride home on a DC-10 in 1989 when heard an explosion somewhere in the back of the jet. He soon made his way to the cockpit to see if the crew needed help.
Inside, he found three men desperately trying to keep the giant pla......
2012-05-09 17:37:12
New Jersey State Police say a car driven by a man taking his children to a baby sitter collided head-on with a tractor-trailer, killing him and his 5-year-old son. His 3-year-old daughter is critically hurt.
Thirty-seven-year-old Kevin Shelton, of Pittsgrove, was......
2012-05-09 17:32:25
A former California transit officer who fatally shot an unarmed man on an Oakland train platform in 2009 urged an appeals court Wednesday to overturn his involuntary manslaughter conviction, saying that letting it stand would place police under an increased threat of prosecution for......
2012-05-09 16:45:39
A United Airlines flight from Toronto to San Francisco has made an emergency landing at Denver International Airport.
Airport spokeswoman Jenny Schiavone says United Airlines flight 867 landed safely Wednesday, and there were no injuries.
Unit......
2012-05-09 13:36:04
Air India said Wednesday a court has ruled that a strike by some of its pilots is illegal and ordered them back to work.
The state-owned airline's spokesman, Prasad Rao, said management sought the New Delhi High Court's intervention after about 150 of its 1,500 p......
2012-05-09 13:32:01
A man whose child unknowingly had gun parts and ammunition hidden inside stuffed animals in his carry-on bag was involved in a custody dispute, officials at Rhode Island's main airport said Wednesday.
Federal transportation agents found the items Monday when the ......
2012-05-09 12:09:07
Traffic is moving again on Interstate 95 in Philadelphia after a jack-knifed tractor-trailer halted the northbound lanes for several hours.
The crash happened around 4 a.m. Wednesday between Academy Road and Cottman Avenue in Northeast Philadelphia. The truck als......
2012-05-09 06:11:41
India's Supreme Court has banned the Exxon Valdez from entering India, saying the ship involved in one of the worst U.S. oil spills will not be allowed in for dismantling until it has been decontaminated.
The ship, now known as the "Oriental Nicety," en......
2012-05-08 22:58:31
ADAM GOLDMAN,Associated PressEILEEN SULLIVAN,Associated PressMATT APUZZO,Associated Press
The CIA had al-Qaida fooled from the beginning.
Last month, U.S. intelligence learned that al-Qaida's Yemen branch hoped to launch a spectacular attack using a new, nearly undetectable bomb aboard an airliner bound for America, officials say.
......
2012-05-08 18:18:22
On the second day of a federal trial stemming from a 2010 duck boat crash that killed two Hungarian students, the presiding judge put the proceeding on hold and told the parties in the case to try and hammer out a settlement.
U.S. District Judge Thomas O'Neill, w......
2012-05-08 16:46:31
A northwestern Pennsylvania man has been charged in a February traffic accident that claimed the life of a local fire chief.
The Erie Times-News (http://bit.ly/JbUhln ) says 29-year-old Joshua Nickerson of Edinboro was arraigned Tuesday afternoon on charges inclu......
2012-05-08 16:16:40
The Federal Aviation Administration is seeking sanctions against a Colorado company stemming from a 2010 medical-helicopter crash in Arizona that killed the aircraft's three-member crew.
FAA spokesman Ian Gregor tells The Associated Press that the agency wants to......
2012-05-08 14:34:20
A U.N. nuclear inspector from South Korea was killed and a colleague was injured in a car crash Tuesday near a reactor site in central Iran, state media and the nuclear watchdog agency said.
Iran's state TV said the South Korean inspector was thrown from of the c......
2012-05-08 14:31:05
Police have arrested an Arizona woman on suspicion of crashing an SUV packed with illegal immigrants as she fled from U.S. Border Patrol agents, killing four and injuring seven others.
Casa Grande police arrested 29-year-old Angela Celaya Gonzalez of Eloy on four......
2012-05-08 14:08:28
Officials have canceled next month's planned opening of Berlin's new airport, saying it will take at least until August before all necessary fire safety checks have been completed.
The delay is an embarrassment for planners and authorities in the German capital, ......
2012-05-08 11:39:23
Police say two western Pennsylvania elementary school students appear to be fine after a school van being driven by their grandmother struck a tree and overturned.
Southwest Regional Police say the woman driving the van was taken to hospital in Pittsburgh followi......
2012-05-08 08:43:20
Air India canceled four international flights Tuesday after about 150 pilots failed to turn up for work in a protest against unpaid salaries and working conditions.
The airline has sacked 10 pilots and has ordered the striking pilots to return to work by Tuesday ......
2012-05-08 06:21:09
South African wildlife officials say a delivery truck driver who was going too fast slammed into a herd of impala, leaving seven dead antelope strewn along a road in the country's flagship Kruger National Park.
Several South African newspapers published photos of......
2012-05-07 23:13:44
A Pennsylvania state trooper has been ordered to stand trial on charges of driving under the influence and vehicular homicide while DUI in an off-duty crash that killed another motorist in northwestern Pennsylvania.
The Erie Times-News (http://bit.ly/LAfmWm ) say......
2012-05-07 22:21:35
A truck driver already sentenced to state prison after his faulty brakes caused a fatal crash on a suburban Philadelphia expressway has now been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison.
Fifty-eight-year-old Valerijs Belovs, who was sentenced Monday, pleaded guil......
2012-05-07 18:11:33
By Tony Stewart's standards, his tongue-in-cheek assessment of NASCAR's latest wreckfest at Talladega was tame stuff. But his four-minute Q&A following Sunday's race was vintage Smoke, and boy did he deliver.
The three-time NASCAR champion deadpanned his way ......
2012-05-07 18:10:20
AP Auto Racing Writer
By Tony Stewart's standards, his tongue-in-cheek assessment of NASCAR's latest wreckfest at Talladega was tame stuff. But his four-minute Q&A following Sunday's race was vintage Smoke, and boy did he deliver.
The ......
2012-05-07 17:53:35
Video footage played Monday at the opening of a trial stemming from the boat crash that killed two Hungarian tourists shows the teenage girl killed in the collision toss a deckhand her life jacket moments before the doomed vessel is driven under by an unmanned barge.
......
2012-05-07 17:26:54
AP Auto Racing Writer
By Tony Stewart's standards, his tongue-in-cheek assessment of NASCAR's latest wreckfest at Talladega was tame stuff. But his four-minute Q&A following Sunday's race was vintage Smoke, and boy did he deliver.
The ......
2012-05-07 14:25:44
A railroad upgrade project in Cuba has trains traveling faster and that means more danger for careless motorists and pedestrians, authorities said Monday, reporting 33 collisions involving cars and 47 pedestrians hit last year.
An article in labor union newspaper......
2012-05-07 07:05:23
Officials say a man fatally struck on a rural Pennsylvania road was collecting frogs for high school biology programs he ran at area schools.
The Cambria County coroner's office says 66-year-old Thomas Bodenschatz was struck and killed early Saturday morning in S......
2012-05-06 22:22:48
Virginia State Police are investigating a four-vehicle crash sparked by a vehicle driving in the wrong direction that left three people dead in the southwestern part of the state.
State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller says the crash occurred at 8:52 p.m. Saturd......
2012-05-06 19:47:30
The leader on the last lap isn't supposed to win at Talladega Superspeedway. Everybody knows that.
Brad Keselowski disagrees, and he showed how to do it Sunday with a calculated plan that sent him to Victory Lane.
Keselowski used a big push fr......
2012-05-06 19:18:39
Tony Stewart delivered a tongue-in-cheek message to fans who had been clamoring for some bang-'em-up wrecks.
Happy now?
"Honestly, I think if we haven't crashed at least 50 percent of the field by the end of the race, we need to extend th......
2012-05-06 17:08:48
A trial is getting under way in federal court to determine whether there should be a limit on how much two vessel operators may have to pay after a tugboat-guided barge slammed into a sightseeing boat two years ago in Philadelphia, leaving two Hungarian students dead.
......
2012-05-06 11:32:09
Lee Hanson became deeply angry as the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and co-defendants tried to undermine their arraignment on 3,000 counts of murder at a military court in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Hanson's son, daughter-in-law and 2-year-old gra......
2012-05-06 00:21:00
CHIP SMEDLEY
The opening of the Red Rose Transit Authority parking garage at East Chestnut and North Queen streets at the end of this month begs the question: Does Lancaster city have too many parking garages? There is no easy answer. City economic and parking officials believe the parking......
2012-05-05 23:23:08
The Lackawanna County Coroner says a New York man has died after the small plane he was piloting crashed in northeastern Pennsylvania.
Coroner Tim Rowland tells The Scranton Times-Tribune that 67-year-old Jeffrey Gilbert, of Rock Hill, N.Y., died at Geisinger Com......
2012-05-05 22:59:01
Chinese state media say 12 people have been killed and 19 others injured in two back-to-back highway accidents in southwest China.
The official Xinhua News Agency says that a truck hit a car Saturday afternoon on an expressway between Shantou and Kunming cities, ......
2012-05-05 20:05:36
Joey Logano nipped Kyle Busch at the finish line Saturday to win the Nationwide Series race at Talladega Superspeedway to give Toyota its 200th win in NASCAR.
The race was marred by a late accident that sent Eric McClure to an Alabama hospital by helicopter, but ......
2012-05-05 14:25:36
State police in eastern Pennsylvania are investigating a one-car crash that claimed the lives of two people.
Police say the accident happened at about 9:45 p.m. Friday on Old Route 115 in Saylorsburg.
The Pocono Record says two males -- a driv......
2012-05-05 13:18:05
Prosecutors say a New Jersey motorist who was driving drunk when he rear-ended another vehicle, killing an elderly Pennsylvania man, has been sentenced to three years in state prison.
Ryan O. Ricketts must serve 85 percent of the term imposed Friday before becomi......
2012-05-05 11:58:09
A freak parkway accident that wiped out three generations of a Bronx family is being touted by some transportation advocates as more evidence that New York City's aging highway system needs major upgrades.
Seven people died, including three children, when the fam......
2012-05-05 11:34:40
Behold the ambu-bus.
Authorities in Kentucky are making use of old school buses that are being turned into ambulances. Each one can carry up to 18 patients, which officials say will be of great help in case of a major accident or disaster.
The......
2012-05-05 08:04:05
Italian cruise line Costa Crociere SpA unveiled new safety measures Saturday following the deadly grounding of its ship off Tuscany, saying it will now have real-time tracking of its ships' routes and will impose limits on its captains' absolute authority.
The me......
2012-05-05 06:36:33
A bus bringing retired police officers to a national convention veered off a highway in northern Italy on Saturday and plunged into a canal, killing at least five people, officials said.
More than a dozen others were injured, some of them seriously, when the bus ......
2012-05-04 20:21:42
The 21-year-old driver of a U-Haul truck that struck and killed a woman in a tailgating area at the Yale-Harvard football game in 2011 was arrested Friday, charged with negligent homicide with a motor vehicle and reckless driving.
Brendan D. Ross of O'Fallon, Mo.......
2012-05-04 17:59:20
The family of a Thai restaurant chef who died after he was struck by a sport utility vehicle last August has settled its wrongful death lawsuit with former Minnesota Viking Joe Senser and his wife, Amy, attorneys announced Friday.
Terms of the settlement were not......
2012-05-04 17:37:39
In World War II's final moments in Europe, Associated Press correspondent Edward Kennedy gave his news agency perhaps the biggest scoop in its history. He reported, a full day ahead of the competition, that the Germans had surrendered unconditionally at a former schoolhouse in Reims......
2012-05-04 16:03:00
Four dozen Philadelphia transit agency workers who won a $172 million Powerball drawing are all still working and don't intend to change much about their lives despite becoming millionaires.
A pool of workers at the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Author......
2012-05-04 14:59:38
An Algerian army official says two officers have been killed and two wounded when their car was hit by a mortar blast.
The official said Friday the car was hit by a shell from a homemade launcher in the region of Boumerdes, 35 miles (50 kilometers) east of the ca......
2012-05-04 12:47:26
Four dozen Philadelphia transit agency workers who won a $172 million Powerball drawing are all still working and don't intend to change much about their lives despite becoming millionaires.
A pool of workers at the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Author......
2012-05-04 12:38:51
South African unions took to the streets. Big business added its opposition to proposed tolls to pay for road upgrades for the nation's commercial hub, saying an irrational plan was being imposed on citizens by the governing African National Congress.
A truce has......
2012-05-04 11:49:59
A New Jersey man who was pushing his SUV after it broke down was hit by a passing vehicle, got up and told a good Samaritan he was OK, only to be struck and killed by a second vehicle.
The Asbury Park Press reports (http://on.app.com/JHHGnR ) William Cassano, of ......
2012-05-04 10:42:33
Amy Senser led a comfortable life as the wife of former Minnesota Viking Joe Senser, mother of four daughters and resident of an upscale Minneapolis suburb. Now, she's facing prison after a jury didn't believe her story about a fatal hit-and-run accident.
"S......
2012-05-04 09:34:42
Hundreds of passengers are being rescreened at San Francisco International Airport's Terminal 3 after a security breach forced the terminal to close.
Airport spokesman Mike McCarron tells KGO-TV the terminal was shut down Friday morning after an incident of unaut......
2012-05-03 23:12:35
Police in the Chicago suburb of Crystal Lake say two men have died in a small plane crash.
Crystal Lake Deputy Police Chief Gene Lowery says the plane crashed Thursday afternoon just west of the Lake in the Hills Airport, about 50 miles northwest of Chicago. Lowe......
2012-05-03 17:35:08
Officials say two ferries collided in a Baltic Sea port in Germany. No passengers or crew members have been injured.
Police officials in Travemuende said the 190-meter (625-foot) German ferry Nils Holgersson returning with 63 passengers aboard from Sweden crashed......
2012-05-03 13:03:27
Michigan State football players William Gholston and Lawrence Thomas suffered minor injuries in a freeway crash.
The school said Thursday the two defensive players were "shaken" after the accident Wednesday afternoon.
The Detroit Fre......
2012-05-03 12:37:48
Michigan State football players William Gholston and Lawrence Thomas suffered minor injuries in a freeway crash.
The school said in a statement Thursday the two defensive players were "shaken" after the accident Wednesday afternoon.
......
2012-05-03 10:31:33
The streets and sidewalks of Cairo have always been rather chaotic. But they've only gotten worse in the political turmoil as Egypt stumbles toward a new system following the fall of President Hosni Mubarak.
Street vendors selling clothes, food or household goods......
2012-05-02 17:56:19
A small helicopter crashed into a residential neighborhood Wednesday, knocking off part of a home's roof before settling in a tree just feet from another house.
Two men were on board when the aircraft went down, the fire department said. They appeared to be in st......
2012-05-02 16:41:15
An SUV packed with suspected illegal immigrants crashed in a farm town south of Phoenix while fleeing from U.S. Border Patrol agents early Wednesday, leaving four people dead and seven injured.
The Dodge Durango carrying 11 people hit a wall and rolled into the y......
2012-05-02 16:14:31
A San Francisco transit worker has been fired for giving a needy teenager free train tickets to get to school.
Daly City station agent Jim Stanek tells the San Francisco Chronicle (http://bit.ly/JB7nGz ) that he got a termination letter on Tuesday, his 66th birth......
2012-05-02 11:38:41
New York's Transportation Department says it's addressing some safety concerns on a stretch of highway where an accident killed seven people.
Commissioner Joan McDonald says new concrete barriers will be installed on the outside travel lane on three Bronx River P......
2012-05-02 09:53:00
An American yacht destroyed while racing from California to Mexico ended up on the rocky shore of an island just past the border, according to a website that tracks boats by GPS, potentially undercutting the theory that it was crushed by a large ship.
Coast Guard......
2012-05-02 08:45:42
Just days before a civil wrongful death lawsuit goes to federal court, attorneys for the parents of two Hungarian students killed when a barge slammed into a tour boat in Philadelphia nearly two years ago released a new video of the crash.
Dora Schwendtner, 16, a......
2012-05-02 08:38:29
Officials say nobody was hurt when a car crashed into a doorway leading to a moving walkway at Pittsburgh International Airport.
Spokeswoman JoAnn Jenny says the accident happened just after 7 a.m. Wednesday when a woman crashed her Toyota Prius.
......
2012-05-02 00:38:40
Attorneys for the parents of two Hungarian students killed when a barge slammed into a tour boat in Philadelphia nearly two years ago released a new video of the crash Tuesday, only days before a civil wrongful death lawsuit goes to federal court.
Dora Schwendtne......
2012-05-01 23:49:18
A federal probe into how an air traffic controller's error put two jets in danger of colliding over Hawaii shows the worker didn't believe he was ready to direct aircraft from the radar station where he was assigned and had asked for more training.
The incident i......
2012-05-01 21:17:02
In what authorities called the most serious terror threat since the Sept. 11 attacks, a New York City man was convicted Tuesday of plotting with two of his former classmates at a Queens high school to attack the subways as suicide bombers.
A jury deliberated less......
2012-05-01 20:53:59
A website that tracks boats by GPS shows an American yacht that was mysteriously destroyed during a Pacific Ocean race ended up on the rocky shore of an island off Mexico's northern coast.
Investigators have not determined what happened to the 37-foot Aegean, but......
2012-05-01 18:31:30
The Coast Guard is asking sailing's national governing body to investigate last month's fatal yacht racing accident off the San Francisco coast.
U.S. Sailing on Tuesday announced a panel of experienced sailors who will look into the accident that killed five sail......
2012-05-01 18:09:37
An Indiana high school basketball standout who survived a Michigan plane crash last year that killed his father and stepmother after surviving a 2003 crash that killed his mother plans to play college basketball next year.
Austin Hatch, of Fort Wayne, made a verb......
2012-05-01 11:05:53
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) -- An Army investigation cites pilot and air traffic control errors and "dark spots" in radar coverage for a nighttime helicopter collision that killed four soldiers from a Washington state base last year.
The result......
2012-05-01 10:07:05
Rescuers on Tuesday had recovered 103 bodies from a turbulent northeastern river after a heavily packed ferry capsized, saying they feared that dozens of others had been swept by the current to neighboring Bangladesh.
The overloaded ferry overturned and broke int......
2012-05-01 09:11:36
An Indiana high school basketball standout who survived a Michigan plane crash that killed his father and stepmother says he plans to play college basketball next year.
Austin Hatch of Fort Wayne had made a verbal commitment to play basketball at the University o......
2012-05-01 07:11:56
Army divers and rescue workers pulled 103 bodies out of a river after a packed ferry capsized in heavy winds and rain in remote northeast India, an official said Tuesday.
At least 100 people were still missing Tuesday after the ferry carrying about 350 people bro......
2012-05-01 00:26:43
Official says 103 bodies fished out of river after ferry capsizes in remote northeast India.......
2012-04-30 23:39:59
For 65 years, sailors have raced 125 nautical miles from Newport Beach, Calif., to Ensenada, Mexico, with expectations of a safe overnight voyage followed by beers at a popular cantina.
Likewise, sailors in the century-old Full Crew Farallones Race off San Franci......
2012-04-30 21:54:05
Officials in Colombia say a Colombian air force helicopter has crashed near the Caribbean coast and all 13 people aboard have been killed.
Atlantico state civil defense director Jorge Fernandez says the aircraft crashed in a field in a rural area of the town of S......
2012-04-30 21:32:55
The section of highway where an accident sent seven members of a Bronx family flying over a guardrail and plummeting to their deaths has narrow lanes, steep hills, tight turns, inadequate guardrails and no breakdown lane, an auto safety group said Monday.
The Bro......
2012-04-30 21:26:27
A Wisconsin woman and her adult son were killed in separate traffic crashes just hours apart in a Milwaukee suburb, police said Monday.
Mary J. Moore, 45, died after she was struck by a vehicle on a street in West Allis. A friend was speeding her son, Thomas M. O......
2012-04-30 21:11:51
May Day protests may disrupt the morning commute in major U.S. cities Tuesday as labor, immigration and Occupy activists rally support on the international workers' holiday.
Demonstrations, strikes and acts of civil disobedience are being planned around the count......
2012-04-30 10:35:01
Police say 35 dead, 75 feared missing as packed ferry capsizes in remote northeast India.......
2012-04-30 07:04:49
Eric Lamb was doing safety patrol on a 124-mile yacht race when he spotted a boat that appeared too close to Mexico's Coronado Islands. He never got there.
As his twin-engine boat neared the uninhabited islands just south of San Diego, he stumbled on sailboat sha......
2012-04-30 06:34:49
A central Pennsylvania man is scheduled to be sentenced in July in the fatal 2009 crash that killed a cab driver and his passenger.
Thirty-two-year-old Andrew Denezza faces sentencing in July for causing the crash that claimed the lives of Harrisburg cab driver M......
2012-04-30 05:43:29
One person is dead and a second hurt after a car overturned into a southeastern Pennsylvania creek.
Police in Douglass Township, Montgomery County say the car was discovered upside-down in the West Branch of the Perkiomen Creek around 11 a.m. Sunday.
......
2012-04-30 01:53:18
A 37-foot racing yacht was reduced to debris that looked "like it had gone through a blender," a searcher said Sunday after the boat apparently collided with a larger vessel, killing three sailors and leaving a fourth missing.
The U.S. Coast Guard, the ......
2012-04-29 23:32:28
The Coast Guard says one of its crews rescued five adults and a 13-year-old boy from the water after their 32-foot vessel sank south of Perdido Beach.
Coast Guard officials said in a news release that crews responded after receiving a mayday call at about 1:15 p.......
2012-04-29 22:34:48
A bus carrying dozens of vacationers to Tokyo Disneyland has crashed on a highway, killing seven passengers.
Police say the other 38 passengers and the driver were injured in Sunday morning's accident on a highway in Gunma, north of Tokyo.
The......
2012-04-29 22:33:29
An out-of-control SUV barreled across several lanes of traffic on a highway overpass Sunday, then plunged more than 50 feet off the side of the road and landed in a ravine on the grounds of the Bronx Zoo, killing all seven people aboard, including three children, authorities said....
2012-04-29 22:05:17
Police say two teenage girls who fell asleep while sunbathing on a rural Pennsylvania road have been struck by a car.
The Beaver County Police Department tells WTAE-TV (http://bit.ly/KoTXi9 ) that 13-year-olds Samantha Schermanhorn and Kaylie George were hit by t......
2012-04-29 18:07:33
State police say a single-car crash on a northern New Jersey highway has left one Pennsylvania man dead and another facing charges of drunken driving and death by auto.
Forty-year-old Vasilios Theodoropoulos of Effort was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash......
2012-04-29 08:38:14
A news report says two buses have collided head-on and fallen into a ditch in northern India, killing 20 people and injuring 25 others.
The Press Trust of India news agency says 15 passengers died at the scene on the outskirts of Gorakhpur, a town 270 kilometers ......
2012-04-29 06:08:56
A bus carrying dozens of vacationers to Tokyo Disneyland has crashed on a highway, killing seven passengers.
Police say the other 38 passengers and the 43-year-old driver were injured, 13 of them seriously, in Sunday morning's accident on a highway in Gunma, nort......
2012-04-29 05:29:30
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A yacht racing off the coasts of California and Mexico apparently collided at night with a much larger vessel, leaving three crew members dead and one missing, a sailing organization said early Sunday. It was the state's second ocean racing tragedy this month.
Th......
2012-04-29 04:02:55
A yacht racing off the coasts of California and Mexico apparently collided with a much larger vessel, killing three crew members and leaving one missing, a sailing organization said early Sunday.
The Newport Ocean Sailing Association was hosting the 125-mile Newp......
2012-04-28 16:30:01
The wife of the police chief in a central Florida community accidentally ran over a family friend's 22-month-old son in a parking lot, authorities said.
Pamela Bodenheimer, 51, was backing up from a parking spot Friday night at Titusville High School when she dro......
2012-04-28 14:21:22
Police say at least five people have been killed when a small plane crashed near a village in western Switzerland.
Fribourg district police spokeswoman Donatella Del Vecchio said no one survived the single-engine plane crash, five bodies were found at the site, a......
2012-04-28 03:14:23
Police in Oman say eight members of a family have been burned to death after their car struck a truck parked on the roadside.
A police statement carried in local media Saturday says the vehicle hit the truck outside Khaboura, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) northw......
2012-04-27 21:31:19
A terminal at Newark Liberty International Airport was shut down for over an hour Friday after officials discovered that a baby hadn't been properly screened, Transportation Security Administration officials said.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, wh......
2012-04-27 19:58:51
Authorities say a helicopter spraying herbicide on a wheat field in central Pennsylvania crashed when a wind gust caused the pilot to lose control.
South Londonderry Township police Chief Jeffrey Arnold says the pilot walked away, although the helicopter sustaine......
2012-04-27 19:28:30
The Mexican government said Friday it will tighten inspections and lower maximum allowed weights for freight trucks after protests over a string of deadly accidents involving double-trailer trucks.
Independent truckers partially blocked highways leading into Mexi......
2012-04-27 18:46:23
Sailboat racers were grumbling Friday after the Coast Guard temporarily stopped races in ocean waters outside San Francisco Bay following a deadly yachting accident.
"We're all saddened by what happened," said Chris Larose, a San Francisco sailor who wa......
2012-04-27 13:15:13
A checked bag containing PVC pipes and several wires prompted authorities to briefly clear out a Minneapolis airport terminal Friday, and its owner told police it was the second time in three years his device had forced an airport evacuation, an official said.
Th......
2012-04-27 11:45:46
The board of the transit agency serving Pittsburgh and its suburbs has approved the agency's largest service cuts in its 48-year history due to a projected $64 million deficit in its 2012-13 budget.
The Port Authority of Allegheny County board approved Friday cut......
2012-04-27 11:34:41
In an April 26 story about a group of transit workers winning a Powerball jackpot, The Associated Press erroneously attributed details about who won the lottery. Information about the winners came from a spokeswoman for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, not sta......
2012-04-27 09:33:41
At least some co-workers of 48 Philadelphia transit employees who won a $172.7 million jackpot this week are hoping the big payday trickles down -- in the form of new vacancies.
Officials at the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority say the employees......
2012-04-27 09:19:45
Twenty-two southwestern Pennsylvania school students whose bus was hit by a soft-drink truck, killing that driver, have been honored for remaining calm during the ordeal.
The Daily American of Somerset (http://bit.ly/Iw1M3w ) reports the students were honored at ......
2012-04-27 07:24:11
The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority board has given final approval to a contract agreement that ended a nine-day walkout by transit police last month.
The Philadelphia Inquirer (http://bit.ly/ICZ8JV ) reports SEPTA's board of directors approved......
2012-04-26 23:20:05
Former Minnesota Viking Joe Senser told a jury Thursday that he wasn't surprised when his wife failed to pick up their daughters and friends from a concert last summer, the same night of a crash that killed a man on an interstate ramp in Minneapolis.
Senser, test......
2012-04-26 23:01:39
Police in Philadelphia say a drunk driver blew through a stop sign and collided with another car in a fiery crash that left two people dead.
Twenty-six-year-old George Vidra of Philadelphia was charged Thursday with vehicular homicide, driving under the influence......
2012-04-26 20:08:10
A Florida Highway Patrol sergeant opposed reopening a fog- and smoke-shrouded interstate highway, but he was overruled by a higher-ranking officer shortly before a series of crashes killed 11 people, state investigators said in a report released Thursday.
The Flo......
2012-04-26 18:17:54
Employers at some U.S. airports are being allowed to hire workers without completing all background security checks because of a backlog in the screening process, federal officials said.
In the past, new employees were required to undergo a Transportation Securit......
2012-04-26 18:13:04
A former federal Transportation Security Administration officer pleaded guilty Thursday to bribery and extortion charges related to accepting cash in exchange for allowing what she believed was painkiller pills to pass through an airport.
The U.S. Attorney's Offi......
2012-04-26 17:54:38
Independent Mexican truckers launched nationwide protests Thursday calling for clearer, fairer rules on vehicle weights and dimensions and for an end to discretionary permits that they say let double-trailer vehicles carrying as much as 100 metric tons of freight operate on narrow, ......
2012-04-26 15:28:15
A helicopter crashed in eastern Romania on Thursday, killing all five people it was carrying, officials said.
The aircraft was traveling from Moldova to Turkey when it went down near the Romanian village of Ostrov, close to the Moldova border, local official Vasi......
2012-04-26 10:56:14
A Florida Highway Patrol lieutenant didn't have any formal training or know the procedures before he re-opened a fog- and smoke-shrouded highway where a series of crashes killed 11 people in January, investigators said in a report released Thursday.
The Florida D......
2012-04-26 07:05:58
A puppy named Byrdie delayed several flights at New York's LaGuardia Airport when she escaped from her crate and frolicked around a busy runway.
The Port Authority says the 30-pound Rhodesian ridgeback scampered around the runway for about 10 minutes on Wednesday......
2012-04-25 22:39:51
The grandmother of a 4-year-old girl who became hysterical during a security screening at a Kansas airport said Wednesday that the child was forced to undergo a pat-down after hugging her, with security agents yelling and calling the crying girl an uncooperative suspect.
......
2012-04-25 22:04:55
A family's wrecked SUV dangled off the side of a San Diego freeway Wednesday as construction workers positioned a forklift to keep the mangled vehicle from falling, and then helped the four adults and 8-year-old boy who were inside, authorities said.
A 66-year-ol......
2012-04-25 20:47:55
Former Minnesota Vikings tight end Joe Senser testified Wednesday his wife told him she hit a construction cone the morning after a man was killed on a highway exit ramp.
But Senser said he knew his wife had not hit a cone as she claimed, because of the damage to......
2012-04-25 20:07:43
The sister of a man accused in a suspected plot in 2009 to attack New York's subways with suicide bombs tearfully testified Wednesday of an FBI raid on their home in the dead of night during Ramadan.
Her mother also said on the stand that FBI agents showed up at ......
2012-04-25 19:44:34
Duane Eleby, a suspected drug courier, was all set to sneak 10 pounds of cocaine through a security checkpoint at Los Angeles International Airport last February with the help of a former Transportation Security Administration employee and a screener.
Eleby, howe......
2012-04-25 18:02:22
A survivor of the fatal grounding of a racing yacht on rocky islands west of San Francisco is calling on the sailing community to make safety a higher priority.
In a lengthy letter posted online (http://bit.ly/JqIlHH ) Tuesday, Bryan Chong, 38, offered a detailed......
2012-04-25 16:42:48
The Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors announced winners of the group's annual writing and photo contests this week.
Cash awards will be presented to the first-place winners at the PAPME's annual convention in Gettysburg on June 1.
...
2012-04-25 15:31:45
The owners and operators of a container ship that slammed into the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in 2007 and spilled thousands of gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay have sued the Northern California pharmacists they claim negligently dispensed prescription drugs to the pilot o......
2012-04-25 15:01:55
Government corruption and deteriorating roads caused a fiery multiple car and truck crash in Nigeria that killed at least 18 people in 2010, a coroner said Wednesday, highlighting major challenges facing Africa's most populous nation.
Police set up an illegal che......
2012-04-25 11:01:19
Authorities say they have not found any evidence of criminal negligence in the fatal grounding of a yacht on the Farallon Islands off San Francisco.
The 38-foot sailboat was hit by waves while rounding the island during a race on April 14. Seven of the Low Speed ......
2012-04-25 10:47:55
Authorities in California say someone sawed off the paws of a mountain lion as apparent souvenirs after it was struck and killed by a car.
The California Highway Patrol was called before dawn Tuesday to investigate a report of a deer on U.S. Route 101 near Buellt......
2012-04-25 06:54:11
Dutch prosecutors will not file criminal charges in the 2009 crash of a Turkish Airlines jet near Amsterdam's Schiphol airport that killed nine people and injured dozens.
After a three-year investigation, prosecutors said Wednesday that no one committed any crime......
2012-04-25 00:07:05
A man who shot and killed a woman at a Colorado church before he was killed by an off-duty police officer had been released early from an Oklahoma prison after serving time for assaulting two officers, authorities said Tuesday.
Aurora police identified the suspec......
2012-04-24 21:40:27
A JetBlue aircraft bound for West Palm Beach, Fla., made an emergency landing at a suburban New York airport shortly after hitting birds upon takeoff.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters says JetBlue Flight 571 carrying 54 passengers had a bird s......
