2012-02-10 02:57:47
The father of an admitted terrorist faced up to 40 years in prison at sentencing Friday after his conviction on charges that he destroyed evidence and lied to investigators to cover up his son's plot to attack the New York City subways in 2009 as one of a trio of suicide bombers....
2012-02-10 00:13:32
Three family members attempting their first voyage across the Pacific in a sailboat were left adrift in rough seas hundreds of miles from land when their mast broke in high winds.
Just when they thought they were being rescued, seven hours later, the swell from t......
2012-02-09 22:24:00
TIM MEKEEL
Harrisburg International Airport has used a new tool to arrange nonstop service to a new destination.
The airport will offer nonstop flights to Denver, Colo., starting May 22, it announced Thursday.
The service, provided by Frontier Airlines, will be offered Tuesdays, Thursda......
2012-02-09 19:25:48
Authorities in the Dominican Republic have recovered 10 more bodies from the weekend sinking of a boat carrying illegal migrants. That raises the confirmed death toll to 51.
Public prosecutor Felicia Nieves says volunteers found the bodies Thursday as authorities......
2012-02-09 15:36:34
Police believe a man driving a sport-utility vehicle may have slid on ice before he crashed into an oncoming construction vehicle and was killed during rush hour on a busy Pittsburgh-area bridge.
The dead driver is 59-year-old Chris Puhlman, of McKees Rocks. ......
2012-02-09 14:55:59
After two hours' grueling drive southeast from the center of Mexico City, through paralyzing traffic jams and clouds of throat-burning smog, the bleached-white haze of air pollution gives way to pale-blue sky.
In a flat-bottomed boat tied to a willow tree, Crispi......
2012-02-09 12:05:57
A civil suit in the deaths of two New Jersey motorcycle club members names the man charged in that crash that killed them and a trio of Pennsylvania bars.
The widows of Keith Michaelson and Michael Zadoyko and four other club members filed suit Wednesday against ......
2012-02-09 10:50:09
For two centuries it rested a mile from shore, shrouded by a treacherous reef from the pleasure boaters and beachgoers who haunt New England's southern coast.
Now, researchers from the U.S. Navy are hoping to confirm what the men who discovered the wreck believe:......
2012-02-09 10:36:46
A Pennsylvania state trooper has been suspended without pay and charged with homicide by vehicle while driving drunk for an off-duty crash that killed another motorist in northwestern Pennsylvania.
Online court records don't list an attorney for 35-year-old Jeffr......
2012-02-09 09:53:04
Local and federal authorities offered to help secure Dallas-area bus and train stations Wednesday after a shootout left two people dead, the latest in a string of violent incidents on Dallas mass transit, an agency spokesman said.
Dallas police and the federal Tr......
2012-02-09 08:49:15
Investigators say a weekend motorcycle crash that killed a 26-year-old Pennsylvania man is now being investigated as a hit-and-run homicide.
Authorities said Wednesday that Michael Orsini was struck by an unknown vehicle while riding his motorcycle late Sunday in......
2012-02-09 08:17:53
Four Pennsylvania residents died in a two-vehicle crash in southwest Florida.
The Florida Highway Patrol says the crash happened Wednesday afternoon along U.S. 41 in rural Collier County.
According to the Highway Patrol, 66-year-old James J. R......
2012-02-08 22:28:55
For two centuries it rested a mile from shore, shrouded by a treacherous reef from the pleasure boaters and beachgoers who haunt New England's southern coast.
Now, researchers from the U.S. Navy are hoping to confirm what the men who discovered the wreck believe:......
2012-02-08 20:00:35
Authorities in northeastern Pennsylvania say a man and a 3-year-old girl were killed in a head-on collision between two pickup trucks.
State police in Wyoming County say the crash happened just after 9 a.m. Wednesday on West Nicholson Road in Nicholson Township....
2012-02-08 17:47:22
Authorities in the Dominican Republic have recovered 20 more bodies of migrants who were aboard a boat that capsized, raising the death toll to 41, officials said Wednesday.
The bodies were found late Tuesday and early Wednesday, said Luis Castro, intelligence di......
2012-02-08 17:28:05
A new passenger screening program to make check-in more convenient for certain travelers is being expanded to 28 more major U.S. airports, the government said Wednesday. There will be no cost to eligible passengers, who would no longer have to remove their shoes and belts before the......
2012-02-08 15:40:18
Zambia coach Herve Renard believes it was "written" that his team would reach the final of the African Cup of Nations in Libreville.
The Gabonese capital was the site of the country's worst sporting disaster in 1993, when the plane carrying Zambia's nat......
2012-02-08 14:06:04
A pickup truck lost control on an icy road and crashed head-on into a school bus Wednesday morning, sending eight children and three adults to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries, authorities said.
The truck slid on an icy overpass above Interstate 75 n......
2012-02-08 12:15:31
A judge has delayed ruling whether a Pittsburgh-area man is guilty of involuntary manslaughter and other charges in a crash on Interstate 376 that killed three of his friends.
Allegheny County Judge Jeffrey Manning planned to issue a verdict Wednesday, but said h......
2012-02-08 09:10:59
Israel's largest labor union launched an open-ended nationwide strike for the first time in five years on Wednesday, shutting down national and local government offices, banks, the stock exchange, rail service and seaports.
Workers at Israel's Ben-Gurion Internat......
2012-02-08 07:12:11
At least 23 members of a wedding party have been killed after their bus collided with a truck in northern India.
Police spokesman Surendra Srivastava says 36 other passengers were injured in the pre-dawn crash Wednesday in Mainpuri district in Uttar Pradesh state......
2012-02-08 06:20:44
Authorities say the sport utility vehicle crashed into the front of a Pittsburgh bank had been stolen.
Police are searching for the driver who crashed the vehicle into the front of a downtown PNC Bank on Tuesday, then fled the scene.
A police ......
2012-02-07 22:40:16
A man suspected of starting a shootout with police at a suburban Dallas transit station that left a bystander dead Tuesday was himself found dead a short time later after a second gunfight with pursuing officers, authorities said.
The shootout at a Dallas Area Ra......
2012-02-07 20:24:06
Egypt's ruling generals are playing a risky game of brinksmanship by cracking down on American nonprofit groups that promote democracy, threatening a relationship with Washington that has brought the military billions of dollars in aid over the past three decades.
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2012-02-07 19:08:44
The number of victims who died after a boat overloaded with migrants capsized this weekend near the Dominican Republic has risen to 21, officials said Tuesday.
More than 30 others remain missing, said Jeffrey Pimentel, the fire chief at Sabana del Mar, a town nor......
2012-02-07 17:18:56
Roger Boisjoly, a NASA contractor who repeatedly voiced concerns about the space shuttle Challenger before it exploded, has died. He was 73.
Boisjoly died of cancer on Jan. 6 in Nephi, about 40 miles south of Provo, his wife Roberta Boisjoly said.
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2012-02-07 15:07:44
An Italian court refused Tuesday to lift an order of house arrest for Francesco Schettino, the captain of Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground off a Tuscan island last month.
The court in Florence rejected two requests: one from prosecutors to jail Schett......
2012-02-07 13:45:39
Hundreds of Air France flights were canceled Tuesday -- including 40 percent out of Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport -- and the disruption is expected to get worse during a union strike over labor rights.
Air France forecast it could guarantee just 60 percent of ......
2012-02-07 13:06:24
Ten migrant workers from Peru and Jamaica were killed when a truck hit a passenger van in rural Canada on Monday afternoon, officials said.
The truck driver also was killed. The crash was the deadliest in Ontario since 1999.
Some of the migran......
2012-02-07 12:02:43
A grass fire has closed Nepal's only international airport and forced flights to divert to India.
Police spokesman Raviraj Shrestha said the fire spread close to the runway but away from the terminal building Tuesday evening. No damage or casualties were reported......
2012-02-07 08:39:51
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday pledged to cut traffic privileges for officials, who routinely bypass Moscow's notorious traffic jams by ignoring basic rules of the road and even driving into oncoming lanes.
The privileges are a strong irritant for Musco......
2012-02-07 07:49:45
Dozens of people were still missing Tuesday following a strong earthquake that triggered landslides and damaged buildings and roads on a central Philippine island. The death toll reached 22, but officials said it was likely to rise further as rescuers struggle to reach remote areas.......
2012-02-07 06:42:05
Belfast International Airport says a passenger plane has made a safe emergency landing after developing technical problems.
The airport says the plane landed at around 1130 GMT (6:30 a.m.) Tuesday.
The Thomas Cook Airbus A320 was bound from Be......
2012-02-06 19:56:00
TIM MEKEEL
A Rohrerstown Road trucking firm and its owner were charged Monday with scheming to hide their drivers' illegal work hours.
D.A. Landis Trucking Inc. and its owner, Dean A. Landis, were accused of ordering drivers to falsify their daily work logs.
The ruse made it look as if the d......
2012-02-06 13:26:10
A brother of New York Knicks star Amare Stoudemire died in a Florida car crash Monday after the SUV he was driving slammed into the back of a trailer.
Authorities are still investigating and awaiting test results to find out if alcohol was a factor. The Florida H......
2012-02-06 12:00:36
Officials say a motorist tried to cross a closed Philadelphia bridge before fatally striking a boom lift and sending two construction workers tumbling to the bridge's deck.
Authorities say a 32-year-old man struck the lift around 1:30 a.m. Monday on the Platt Bri......
2012-02-06 11:44:13
Overwhelmed by deep snow and harsh temperatures, some countries in Europe closed down schools and struggled to run public transport Monday, as post-snow rains caused a dam to collapse in Bulgaria, flooding a village and killing at least four.
Another four people ......
2012-02-06 09:22:59
Award-winning American cinematographer Mike deGruy and Australian television writer-producer Andrew Wight have died in a helicopter crash in eastern Australia, their employer National Geographic said.
Police said two people -- an Australian pilot and an American ......
2012-02-06 08:09:51
NATO forces say one of their helicopters has crashed in eastern Afghanistan, and all aboard survived.
The international military coalition says in a statement that the crew has been taken to a nearby base, and initial reports indicate no enemy activity in the are......
2012-02-06 07:59:31
Award-winning American cinematographer Mike deGruy and Australian television writer-producer Andrew Wight have died in a helicopter crash in eastern Australia, their employer National Geographic said.
Police said two people -- an Australian pilot and an American ......
2012-02-06 07:57:32
Award-winning American cinematographer Mike deGruy and Australian television writer-producer Andrew Wight have died in a helicopter crash in eastern Australia, their employer National Geographic said.
Police said two people -- an Australian pilot and an American ......
2012-02-05 22:41:31
Rescuers scouring the white-capped waters off the Dominican Republic's coast have found 17 bodies and 13 survivors from a boat overloaded with migrants that capsized almost two days ago, officials said.
The boat carrying about 70 migrants from the Dominican Repub......
2012-02-05 19:42:49
A memorial Mass has been scheduled for a Minnesota couple who are missing in the Italian cruise ship disaster.
Jerry and Barbara Heil of White Bear Lake are the only Americans missing in the Jan. 13 wreck. Italian authorities called off the search early last week......
2012-02-05 18:24:10
Ignoring a U.S. threat to cut off aid, Egypt on Sunday referred 19 Americans and 24 other employees of nonprofit groups to trial before a criminal court on accusations they illegally used foreign funds to foment unrest in the country.
Egypt's military rulers had ......
2012-02-05 17:56:52
Rescuers have recovered 17 bodies and pulled 13 survivors from white-capped waters off this coastal town after an overloaded boat carrying migrants from the Dominican Republic capsized, officials said Sunday.
Luis Castro, intelligence director of the Dominican Na......
2012-02-05 17:30:41
Mike deGruy, an award-winning cinematographer who spent three decades making documentary films about the ocean, was killed in a helicopter crash in eastern Australia. He was 60.
His employer, National Geographic, said Sunday that deGruy and Australian television ......
2012-02-05 14:21:05
Award-winning American cinematographer Mike deGruy and Australian television writer-producer Andrew Wight have died in a helicopter crash in eastern Australia, their employer National Geographic said Sunday.
Police said two people -- an Australian pilot and an Am......
2012-02-05 14:19:00
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) -- Bosnia used helicopters on Sunday to evacuate the sick and deliver food to thousands of people left stranded by its heaviest snowfall ever, while Pope Benedict XVI donned an overcoat to bless the few pilgrims who braved Rome's unusually cold weat......
2012-02-05 10:56:52
Award-winning American cinematographer Mike deGruy and Australian television writer-producer Andrew Wight have died in a helicopter crash in eastern Australia, their employer National Geographic said Sunday.
Police said two people -- an Australian pilot and an Am......
2012-02-05 10:51:17
Zambia stayed awake in an impressive victory over Sudan to move one win away from an emotional African Cup of Nations final and within reach of a first-ever title.
Zambia's flamboyant French coach Herve Renard said Sudan was capable of putting his team "to s......
2012-02-05 09:09:56
It's a matter of perspective. From aboard a 12-deck cruise liner, the sight of St. Mark's Square, the Doge's Palace and Bridge of Sighs gliding past from a cabin balcony is a breathtaking thrill.
But against the backdrop of Venice's storied canals and Byzantine a......
2012-02-05 06:53:36
Egypt's foreign minister insisted Sunday that the government can't intervene in an investigation of foreign-funded pro-democracy organizations that is straining ties with the United States, but underlined Cairo's commitment to the relationship with Washington.
Mo......
2012-02-05 01:51:22
Nicolas Batum woke up hoping his injured knee would allow him to play.
As it happened, he set a Trail Blazers record with nine 3-pointers and scored a career-high 33 points to help Portland beat the Denver Nuggets 117-97 Saturday night.
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2012-02-04 19:33:40
A small plane crashed and burst into flames shortly after takeoff Saturday in an eastern Arizona mountain community, killing a well-known rural Arizona auto dealer and his wife and seriously injuring the couple's son and daughter-in-law.
The son was pulled from t......
2012-02-04 19:27:46
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) -- Bosnia's government declared a state of emergency in its capital on Saturday after Sarajevo was paralyzed by snow, while in Rome residents dug out from the city's biggest snowfall in 26 years, which shut down the Colosseum.
Th......
2012-02-04 16:17:47
There was a single mom who loved to dance, in the car with a boyfriend who had moved from Virginia to be with her. A pastor and members of his family, originally from Brazil, returning home to Georgia from an Orlando church retreat. A father, his wife and his daughter headed south f......
2012-02-04 13:21:35
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday issued a new warning to Egypt that the failure to resolve a bitter dispute over the status of non-governmental pro-democracy groups may lead to the loss of American aid to the country.
Clinton met Egyptia......
2012-02-04 09:41:07
A Red Cross official says 25 people have died in western Kenya after a truck crashed into a minibus.
Kenya Red Cross spokesman Fredrick Gori said Saturday that the Friday night accident in Kisumu city happened after a truck hit a 14-seater minibus carrying excess......
2012-02-04 07:57:50
The owner of Heathrow Airport says it has canceled 30 percent of flights for Sunday amid forecasts for snow and severe weather in London.
BAA says it reached an agreement with Heathrow airlines and air traffic control to reduce the flight schedule for Sunday to &......
2012-02-04 06:43:07
The image Steve Appleton cultivated as a stunt pilot and off-road rally driver became the perfect metaphor for his wild, 18-year ride as the leader of Micron Technology Inc., where stomach-churning swings from billion-dollar profit to billion-dollar loss required the constitution of......
2012-02-04 04:27:13
Afghan officials say they are hopeful that the country's largest airport will reopen after being closed due to heavy snowfall.
Transportation Ministry spokesman Nenglai Qalatwal said Saturday that crews were busy trying to clear the runway at Kabul airport, which......
2012-02-03 22:38:07
The most powerful storm of the winter season pounded Colorado and parts of neighboring states on Friday, creating whiteout conditions on the eastern plains, cancelling more than 600 flights in Denver and closing hundreds of miles of highway between major Colorado cities and the Kans......
2012-02-03 19:22:12
A San Diego judge has sentenced the son of actor Ryan O'Neal to 16 months in prison for his involvement in a drug-fueled, head-on car crash last year that left another driver injured.
Griffin O'Neal had faced up to four years in state prison at his sentencing Fri......
2012-02-03 17:48:10
Like most Brazilians, Evandro dos Santos' devotion to soccer borders on the religious. Even when he wasn't watching a game, he loved hearing the roar of the crowd in nearby Maracana stadium -- this nation's temple to the sport.
But Santos says he'll never set foo......
2012-02-03 15:46:19
The head of Idaho memory chip maker Micron died Friday morning when the small experimental plane he was piloting crashed at the Boise airport, the company said.
Steve Appleton, 51, was the chief executive and chairman of Micron and a professional stunt pilot who ......
2012-02-03 14:47:26
Russia and Ukraine both took extra precautions on Friday to protect homeless people, ordering new facilities and medical care after scores of people have frozen to death on the streets of Europe during a brutal cold snap.
As the death toll from the past week rose......
2012-02-03 12:22:40
A search is under way in waters near Mexico for a British cruise ship passenger who apparently went overboard.
The Royal Caribbean International cruise line said Friday that another passenger saw the 30-year-old man go over the railing from his stateroom on the A......
2012-02-03 07:34:14
More than 110 people were missing Friday after a ferry sank off Papua New Guinea's east coast, and rescuers feared many had been trapped inside.
Searchers found only one survivor on Friday, a day after rescuing 246 people from the MV Rabaul Queen, Prime Minister ......
2012-02-03 00:53:29
A railway official says a train hit a bulldozer and derailed in northeastern India, killing three passengers.
S. Hajong says at least 16 people were injured when nine coaches of the train derailed after the crash at an unmanned crossing in Assam state.
......
2012-02-02 23:48:09
In the chaotic evacuation of the Costa Concordia, passengers and crew abandoned almost everything on board the cruise ship: jewels, cash, champagne, antiques, 19th-century Bohemian crystal glassware and thousands of art objects, including 300-year-old woodblock prints by a Japanese ......
2012-02-02 23:48:07
In the chaotic evacuation of the Costa Concordia, passengers and crew abandoned almost everything on board the cruise ship: jewels, cash, champagne, antiques, 19th-century Bohemian crystal glassware and thousands of art objects, including 300-year-old woodblock prints by a Japanese ......
2012-02-02 19:37:34
A conservation effort involving an ultralight plane leading endangered whooping cranes south for the winter has been forced to stop short of its Florida destination, with officials deciding Thursday to stay in Alabama.
Operation Migration has experienced delay af......
2012-02-02 18:57:44
Mark Jackson had just arrived at the scene of a fiery crash near his Southern California home.
A Chrysler LeBaron was ablaze, a familiar one. The Golden State Warriors coach had purchased it months earlier so a family that needed a car could attend his ministry. ......
2012-02-02 17:22:10
An air and sea search continued Friday for more than 120 people still missing in the sea off Papua New Guinea's east coast after a ferry sank with 362 people on board, officials said.
Owners of MV Rabaul Queen, Papua New Guinea-based Rabaul Shipping Company, said......
2012-02-02 16:31:02
In the chaotic evacuation of the Costa Concordia, passengers and crew abandoned almost everything on board the cruise ship: jewels, cash, champagne, antiques, 19th-century Bohemian crystal glassware and thousands of art objects, including 300-year-old woodblock prints by a Japanese ......
2012-02-02 16:14:46
All Nippon Airways had to cancel two of its first long-haul Boeing 787 flights on a new route between Tokyo and Frankfurt because of software glitches.
ANA spokeswoman Jean Saito says the Tokyo-based airline canceled a Jan. 26 flight out of Frankfurt due to a mal......
2012-02-02 15:40:11
A Transportation Security Administration agent stole $5,000 in cash from a passenger's jacket as he was going through security at John F. Kennedy International Airport, authorities said Thursday, the latest in a string of thefts that has embarrassed the agency.
A......
2012-02-02 14:32:22
The last of 11 victims in a deadly interstate crash in Florida have been identified as a father, his daughter and the man's wife.
The man's ex-wife, Celeste Knapp, says the three were traveling in a pickup to a funeral in Sarasota. She says state troopers came to......
2012-02-02 12:09:51
An AP Member Exchange. Please credit the member.......
2012-02-02 11:56:31
Nebraska coach Bo Pelini was not injured in an accident that occurred while he was driving to the Omaha area for a booster dinner.
According to Lincoln police, Pelini was driving a 2010 Nissan Armada sport utility vehicle in south Lincoln about 6 p.m. Wednesday w......
2012-02-02 10:41:22
A section of Interstate 81 in Virginia remains closed following a chain-reaction tractor-trailer crash that killed a Pennsylvania man.
Virginia State Police tell media outlets that a northbound tractor-trailer hit a guardrail and overturned. Another tractor-trail......
2012-02-02 07:41:34
Transit officials have rejected a petition for London's black cab drivers to bump up fares by 20 percent during the Summer Olympics.
Transport for London said Thursday it had denied the requested fare hike by a drivers' association, who say members need the incen......
2012-02-02 07:41:23
Transit officials have rejected a petition for London's black cab drivers to bump up fares by 20 percent during the Summer Olympics.
Transport for London said Thursday it had denied the requested fare hike by a drivers' association, who say members need the incen......
2012-02-02 06:39:43
The Paris prosecutor has opened a preliminary investigation into the grounding off the Italian coast of the Costa Concordia cruise ship that killed at least 17 people.
The prosecutor's office said Thursday it has asked police to investigate claims filed in France......
2012-02-01 23:38:57
Authorities in eastern Pennsylvania say a fiery two-car crash has killed both drivers.
Officials in Lehigh County say the crash was reported just before 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in North Whitehall Township.
The (Allentown) Morning Call (http://bit.......
2012-02-01 22:42:45
Australian prime minister says boat carrying 350 people sinks off Papua New Guinea.......
2012-02-01 22:12:44
Eight illegal immigrants have drowned when their boat capsized off Malaysia's southern coast, officials said Thursday. Eighteen others have been rescued.
Marine police official N.Kalai Chelvan said the boat was heading to Indonesia's Batam island early Wednesday ......
2012-02-01 19:12:59
A New Hampshire pilot has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter in a Massachusetts plane crash that killed his 35-year-old daughter.
Fifty-seven-year-old Steven Fay of Hillsborough wasn't certified to pilot the twin-engine Cessna he crashed on approach t......
2012-02-01 19:07:56
Prosecutors say criminal charges will not be filed against Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman James Loney, who was arrested last year on suspicion of driving under the influence.
City attorney's office spokesman Frank Mateljan said Wednesday that the office obtain......
2012-02-01 15:58:38
A man charged with homicide by vehicle in an eastern Pennsylvania crash that claimed the life of a baby last summer has waived his right to a preliminary hearing.
Fifty-seven-year-old Randy Teets of Whitehall appeared in court Wednesday in Lehigh County in the Ju......
2012-02-01 14:50:30
The Transportation Security Administration says an airline employee has caused a security breach that briefly closed a terminal at Newark Liberty International Airport.
Spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein says a worker going through security screening exited the checkpoin......
2012-02-01 13:30:51
A pickup truck involved in a deadly Florida interstate pileup was so badly burned and crushed that it took investigators more than two days to find a third body inside, authorities said Wednesday.
The discovery brings the death toll from the weekend crashes on In......
2012-02-01 12:44:53
A thin film of oil spread from the Costa Concordia cruise ship as waves battered the wreckage off Italy's coast Wednesday, adding to fears of an environmental disaster in the area's sensitive, pristine waters. Authorities were trying to assess how serious and extensive the spread wa......
2012-02-01 11:55:24
Authorities say at least six people are hurt after a Chicago-bound Amtrak train smashed into a semi that got stuck on tracks in southern Michigan.
Amtrak says the lead engine and at least two train cars derailed Wednesday in Leoni Township. The train had 71 passe......
2012-02-01 11:44:23
The body of an eleventh person was found in a pickup truck days after a deadly pileup on Interstate 75, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
The victim was inside a Dodge pickup truck that crashed into a tractor trailer as it traveled south early Sunday, authorities ......
2012-02-01 07:17:22
Members of a small Brazilian church outside Atlanta are trying to find ways to pay for bringing the bodies of members killed in a deadly Florida interstate pileup back to Georgia and then, hopefully, on to their native country to bury them.
The congregation is mo......
2012-02-01 06:29:44
The Florida Highway Patrol says the body of an eleventh person has been found in a pickup truck days after a deadly pileup on Interstate 75.
The Highway Patrol says the Alachua County Medical Examiner's Office determined Tuesday that a third victim was inside a D......
2012-02-01 03:13:07
An official says a team of divers will search the wreck of a freighter ship that sunk off Turkey's Black Sea coast for its eight missing crewmen.
The ship, Vera, with 10 Ukrainian and one Georgian crew, was sailing to Turkey's Aliaga port from Russia when it sank......
2012-01-31 22:11:00
BERNARD HARRIS
There are trails on the Lancaster County Solid Waste Management lands off Farmingdale Road in East Hempfield Township.
Trails are under consideration for the adjacent Lancaster Urban Forest Center, being planned by Lancaster County Conservancy.
There are 3.1 miles of trails includ......
2012-01-31 21:42:33
Family members of a Minnesota couple missing in the Italian cruise ship disaster said Tuesday they accept the decision to end the search.
In a blog posting, the children of Jerry and Barbara Heil of White Bear Lake, Minn., say they are "certainly disheartene......
2012-01-31 21:35:25
The men's basketball game between Rogers State and St. Gregory's that was canceled because of an accident involving one school's team has been rescheduled for Feb. 13 at the Claremore Expo.
The game was originally scheduled for this past Saturday, but it was post......
2012-01-31 20:47:28
Transportation records show the flight instructor for a New Hampshire pilot charged with killing his daughter in a Massachusetts plane crash repeatedly denied his requests to fly solo.
Instructor Michael Truman told federal investigators 57-year-old Steven Fay of......
2012-01-31 18:50:45
Whether it's a dust storm in Arizona, a whiteout in Maine or wildfire in Florida, the call to shut down a major highway usually rests with local officials, who in some cases have little, if any, written guidelines to follow.
In many cases, officials rely on what ......
2012-01-31 18:19:30
Whether it's a dust storm in Arizona, a whiteout in Maine or wildfire in Florida, the call to shut down a major highway usually rests with local officials, who in some cases have little, if any, written guidelines to follow.
In many cases, officials rely on what ......
2012-01-31 17:58:20
The Transportation Security Administration is pursuing disciplinary action against six baggage screeners at Newark Liberty International Airport, including some suspected of sleeping during their shifts, the agency confirmed Tuesday.
The employees have been cited......
2012-01-31 16:47:21
The Egyptian justice minister returned a letter Tuesday from the U.S. Ambassador to Egypt asking him to re-examine the issue of Americans barred from leaving the country.
The snub is the latest in a spat between the allies over a politically charged Egyptian inve......
2012-01-31 14:50:05
The frightful images of a sinking Italian cruise ship have scared off some cruise passengers, at least temporarily, during the industry's peak booking season.
Travel agents -- who book more than two-thirds of cruise passengers worldwide -- have been nervously wat......
2012-01-31 14:06:37
Official says 10 crew missing after freighter ship sinks off Turkey's Black Sea coast.......
2012-01-31 13:05:03
A provincial official in the Congolese province of South Kivu says a plane has crashed after takeoff and there is no news of the passengers on board.
Laban Kyalangalilwa, the minister in charge of transportation in South Kivu province, said Tuesday the plane took......
2012-01-31 10:16:38
Italian emergency officials are ending the search for missing people in the submerged part of the Costa Concordia cruise ship due to the danger to rescue workers.
Italy's Civil Protection agency said Tuesday that technical studies indicated the deformed hull of t......
2012-01-31 09:14:49
A western Pennsylvania man has been ordered to stand trial on charges that he crashed his motorcycle while drunk -- with his 4-year-old nephew aboard, straddling the bike's gas tank.
Thirty-nine-year-old Jeremy Irons, of Windber, and his nephew were both seriousl......
2012-01-31 08:39:23
Italian officials call off underwater search for missing in cruise liner grounding.......
2012-01-31 08:05:23
Ohio troopers believe a man was drinking before he crashed his all-terrain vehicle into a horse-drawn buggy carrying an Amish couple and their nine children.
The State Highway Patrol says the ATV driver was hospitalized with serious injuries following Sunday even......
2012-01-31 08:04:01
The teenage son of a U.S. Air Force officer based in Britain has been shot dead in what the military described Tuesday as a tragic accident.
An Air Force statement did not identify the father but said that he was a lieutenant colonel assigned to an academic excha......
2012-01-31 00:03:22
Minutes before two pileups killed 10 people on a highway shrouded in fog and thick smoke from a brush fire, the Florida Highway Patrol had reopened the always busy six-lane interstate after an earlier serious accident.
A sergeant and lieutenant determined after a......
2012-01-30 23:11:56
Officials in the Dominican Republic say a tourist bus has crashed down a hill, killing the driver and injuring 10 people, including seven from the United States.
Local civil defense official Jacqueline Polonia says the bus was carrying 50 passengers when it went ......
2012-01-30 18:23:27
The Florida Highway Patrol says conditions were clear when they decided to reopen the interstate highway where 10 people were killed in two deadly pileups amid heavy smoke and fog.
Lt. Patrick Riordan said Monday in a news conference that visibility quickly deter......
2012-01-30 17:26:53
Authorities in the Dominican Republic say human remains and drug paraphernalia have been found in the wreckage of a small plane found in a remote southwestern area.
Anti-drug agency spokesman Roberto Lebron says it's not clear if more than one person died in the ......
2012-01-30 17:13:17
A New Hampshire pilot who prosecutors said wasn't qualified to fly without an instructor on board has been indicted on an involuntary manslaughter charge in connection with a western Massachusetts plane crash that killed his 35-year-old daughter.
Steven T. Fay, 5......
2012-01-30 17:12:36
Three American citizens barred from leaving Egypt have sought refuge at the American Embassy in Cairo amid growing tensions between the two allies over an Egyptian investigation into foreign-funded pro-democracy groups.
The White House said Monday it was disappoi......
2012-01-30 17:04:08
A look at some of the deadliest U.S. highway pileups since 1985:
--Nov. 29, 1991: Seventeen killed in a blinding dust storm the day after Thanksgiving in a series of crashes involving 93 cars and 11 big rig trucks on Interstate 5 near Coalinga, Calif.
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2012-01-30 16:25:25
Just hours before a pileup that killed 10 people, authorities had closed a stretch of highway smothered in smoke and fog due to a three-vehicle crash that left a passenger seriously injured. Why they reopened it just minutes before the second crash -- and who made the call -- remain......
2012-01-30 16:25:15
A New Hampshire pilot has been indicted on an involuntary manslaughter charge in connection with a western Massachusetts plane crash that killed his 35-year-old daughter.
Prosecutors said Monday that Steven Fay of Hillsborough, N.H., was neither licensed nor qual......
2012-01-30 16:22:09
Just hours before a pileup that killed 10 people, authorities had closed a stretch of highway smothered in smoke and fog due to a three-vehicle crash that left a passenger seriously injured. Why they reopened it just minutes before the second crash -- and who made the call -- remain......
2012-01-30 16:19:03
A severe and snowy cold snap across central and eastern Europe has left at least 36 people dead, cut off power to towns, and snarled traffic. Officials are responding with measures ranging from opening shelters to dispensing hot tea, with particular concern for the homeless and elde......
2012-01-30 13:54:39
Residents of the Italian island of Giglio held a strategy meeting Monday as fears mounted about threats to the environment and their prized tourism industry from the stricken Costa Concordia cruise ship lying off the coast.
Officials have ruled out finding anyone......
2012-01-30 13:13:07
Federal safety regulators have stepped up their investigation into the Jeep Liberty SUV after 50 people reported they were hurt when the air bags inflated even though the vehicle wasn't involved in a crash.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration start......
2012-01-30 12:17:51
Olympic organizers have some travel advice for the millions of people who work and live in London: Be patient. Have a beer. Work from home.
Rejecting suggestions of possible transport chaos during the July 27-Aug. 12 games, they unveiled a 8.8 million-pound ($13.......
2012-01-30 12:15:35
Olympic organizers have some travel advice for the millions of people who work and live in London: Be patient. Have a beer. Work from home.
Rejecting suggestions of possible transport chaos during the July 27-Aug. 12 games, they unveiled a 8.8 million-pound ($13.......
2012-01-30 10:09:32
Authorities are trying to determine what caused a small plane crash that killed a Maryland man not far from a central Pennsylvania airport.
The York County coroner's office identified the pilot killed in Sunday afternoon's crash as 56-year-old Douglas Helms of We......
2012-01-30 01:25:03
Investigators on Sunday were trying to determine what motivated the driver of a sport utility vehicle to ignore a downed crossing arm and flashing lights and pull the vehicle into the path of an oncoming commuter train in Sacramento.
Three died after the Saturday......
2012-01-29 22:38:41
A long line of cars and trucks collided one after another early Sunday on a dark Florida highway so shrouded in haze and smoke that drivers were instantly blinded. At least 10 people were killed.
When rescuers first arrived, they could only listen for screams and......
2012-01-29 16:46:56
A south-central Pennsylvania coroner says a Maryland man has been killed in a small plane crash.
York County Coroner Barry Bloss said the man was the only person killed in the 12:42 p.m. Sunday crash in a Jackson Township cornfield near the York airport.
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2012-01-29 16:34:03
A drunk driver who crashed into another car on the Atlantic City Expressway -- killing a Pennsylvania woman and injuring three other people -- has been sentenced to seven years in state prison.
A Camden County jury convicted Tiece Riddick of Sicklerville last Aug......
2012-01-29 16:31:15
Officials say they haven't been able to identify a man who was struck by a car while walking along Interstate 70, about 35 miles south of Pittsburgh.
The Washington-Observer-Reporter (http://bit.ly/zPj83S ) reports Sunday that the white male was 5-foot 10-inches ......
2012-01-29 16:28:13
A long line of cars and trucks collided one after another early Sunday on a dark Florida highway so shrouded in haze and smoke that drivers were virtually blinded. At least 10 people were killed.
Visibility was so poor that when rescuers first arrived, they could......
2012-01-29 15:59:33
The cruise ship that capsized off Italy's coast will take up to 10 months to remove, officials said Sunday, as rough seas off the Tuscan coast forced the suspension of recovery operations.
Officials called off both the start of operations to remove of 500,000 gal......
2012-01-29 15:23:04
Houston Rockets guard Courtney Lee says he wasn't injured when his car was struck by another vehicle after Saturday night's game against the New York Knicks.
Rockets spokesman Nelson Luis said Sunday that Lee contacted a team security guard to tell him he was OK.......
2012-01-29 15:22:12
Houston Rockets guard Courtney Lee says he's uninjured after his car was struck by another vehicle after Saturday night's game against the New York Knicks.
Rockets spokesman Nelson Luis said Sunday that Lee contacted a team security guard to tell him he was OK....
2012-01-29 12:58:47
Egypt's Foreign Ministry said Sunday it has ended a contract with three Washington lobbying firms to cut expenses, denying reports that the Americans were the ones to sever the contract.
The rupture occurred as Cairo faces criticism from Washington for banning at......
2012-01-29 08:41:10
A list of those confirmed dead or missing in the grounding of the cruise ship Costa Concordia off Italy. Italian officials released a list of the missing. Those not listed as crew are passengers.
CONFIRMED DEAD (17):
Maria Dintrono, Italy, 30...
2012-01-29 07:31:24
Police say the driver of a pickup truck lost control and crashed into a utility pole in Philadelphia, killing two people and leaving a third critically injured.
Police tell WPVI-TV (http://bit.ly/znhAGS ) that the crash happened at around 3:45 a.m. Sunday at an i......
2012-01-29 02:45:58
The driver of an SUV veered around a crossing arm and ignored flashing warning lights before the vehicle was struck by a light-rail train in Sacramento on Saturday, killing an 18-month-old boy and two adults, authorities said.
The other person inside the Nissan P......
2012-01-28 22:20:28
FULVIO PAOLUCCI,Associated PressNICOLE WINFIELD,Associated Press
Rough seas off Italy's Tuscan coast forced a delay in the planned Saturday start of the operation to remove a half-million gallons of fuel from the grounded Costa Concordia, and officials said pumping may now not begin until midweek.
Recovery operations continued......
2012-01-28 16:44:57
Several members of an Oklahoma men's college basketball team have sustained minor injuries when their bus collided with a semi-truck east of Oklahoma City.
According to a statement from St. Gregory's University officials, the accident occurred Saturday afternoon ......
2012-01-28 12:52:21
Authorities in the Bahamas say a 26-year-old U.S. tourist has died aboard a Carnival cruise ship and the cruise has been delayed pending the investigation.
Bahamas police said in a statement Saturday that a man from South Carolina apparently jumped from one floor......
2012-01-28 05:02:12
Michigan is in a unique position to expand its exports, with a new South Korean trade deal opening the way to more autos and agricultural products such as blueberries and tart cherries and more Michigan-based companies seeking to send their products abroad.
Yet s......
2012-01-27 23:25:52
Kentucky's governor said Friday there will be an immediate review of ways to restore an aging traffic bridge in the western part of the state after a five-story-high cargo boat carrying space rocket parts for NASA and the Air Force slammed into it, leaving a 300-foot-wide gap in the......
2012-01-27 14:57:54
How much is it worth to suffer through a terrifying cruise ship grounding?
Italian ship operator Costa Crociere SpA on Friday put the figure at euro11,000 ($14,460) plus reimbursement for the cost of cruise tickets and extra travel expenses, seeking to cut a deal......
2012-01-27 14:57:46
How much is it worth to suffer through a terrifying cruise ship grounding?
Italian ship operator Costa Crociere SpA on Friday put the figure at €11,000 ($14,460) plus reimbursement for the cost of cruise tickets and extra travel expenses, seeking to c......
2012-01-27 14:15:20
While the parent company of the owner of the stricken Costa Concordia is based in Miami, passengers who want to file a lawsuit in U.S. courts over the cruise ship disaster will likely face choppy seas.
That's because of fine print on tickets purchased and signed ......
2012-01-27 14:03:02
Police say seven dairy cows have had to be euthanized after the truck hauling them to a slaughterhouse in Pennsylvania slammed into a railroad bridge in Syracuse.
Authorities tell Syracuse media outlets that the double-decker truck had picked up 34 cows at a farm......
2012-01-27 13:52:39
A tourist bus collided with a parked vehicle in the U.S. Virgin Islands on Friday, injuring 13 cruise ship passengers after it went down an embankment, authorities said.
One female passenger was hospitalized for a hip fracture while 12 others were released after ......
2012-01-27 11:48:24
A crew member from the stricken cruise ship Costa Concordia has filed a lawsuit in Chicago federal court against Carnival Cruise Lines and its Costa subsidiary.
The lawsuit seeks to represent all 4,200 passengers and crew aboard the vessel when it struck rocks an......
2012-01-27 10:00:06
Union workers protesting further possible cuts by a western Pennsylvania transit agency took a pair of shoes to the governor's satellite office in Pittsburgh.
Amalgamated Transit Union Local 85 says the shoes symbolize what some workers will have to use to get to......
2012-01-27 08:43:58
State officials are inspecting what's left of a southwestern Kentucky bridge that collapsed after a cargo ship carrying aviation parts struck it.
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet spokesman Chuck Wolfe says inspectors began the in-depth review of the Eggner Ferry B......
2012-01-27 07:45:25
Costa Crociere SpA is offering uninjured passengers euro11,000 ($14,460) apiece to compensate them for lost baggage and psychological trauma after its cruise ship ran aground and capsized off Tuscany when the captain deviated from his route.
Costa, a unit of the ......
2012-01-27 03:29:39
Notable moments from the GOP presidential debate Thursday night in Jacksonville, Fla.
IMMIGRATION FIGHT
Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney had their sharpest exchange when Gingrich said Romney was the most anti-immigrant candida......
2012-01-26 22:54:09
Notable moments from the GOP presidential debate Thursday night in Jacksonville, Fla., just days before the state's Jan. 31 primary:
IMMIGRATION FIGHT
Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney had their sharpest exchange when Gingrich ......
2012-01-26 13:29:30
The pay isn't great, the job is temporary and you could be a target for terrorists. But when Mabel Cross heard that she might be able to work at the 2012 Summer Olympics, she rushed to get to a London recruitment center early.
Immaculate in a navy suit and pink s......
2012-01-26 13:05:41
The wheels on this bus went round and round -- just not in the manner anticipated.
Port Authority of Allegheny County spokesman Jim Ritchie says the bus was on Interstate 376 heading into the city from Pittsburgh International Airport with about 25 passengers whe......
2012-01-26 09:35:11
State police say Philadelphia Eagles tight end Brent Celek was a passenger in a car involved in an early-morning DUI crash.
No one was hurt in Thursday morning's crash on a highway off-ramp near the team's stadium in South Philadelphia.
Police......
2012-01-26 06:19:06
Authorities say a 34-year-old Pennsylvania man faces charges after police say he crashed a stolen vehicle into a central New York village's government office building while fleeing from a trooper.
State police say the chase began Wednesday morning in the Oswego C......
2012-01-26 06:00:50
Iran's semi-official Fars news agency says a U.S.-made F-14 Iranian fighter jet has crashed in Bushehr province in southern Iran.
Provincial governor Mohammad Hossein Jahanbakhsh says both the pilot and the co-pilot were killed in Thursday's crash.
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2012-01-26 05:02:50
A list of those confirmed dead or missing in the grounding of the cruise ship Costa Concordia off Italy. Italian officials released a list of the missing. Those not listed as crew are passengers.
CONFIRMED DEAD (16):
Sandor Feher, Hungary, 38,......
2012-01-26 03:34:03
A Navy ship served as a Good Samaritan after a vessel carrying 10 Moroccan mariners capsized in the Mediterranean Sea.
The Navy says sailors and Marines on the amphibious transport dock ship Mesa Verde, based in Norfolk, Va., brought the mariners aboard their shi......
2012-01-25 22:12:29
The children of a Minnesota couple missing in the Italian cruise ship disaster say the waiting has become "an extreme test" of their patience.
In a blog posting Wednesday, the children of Jerry and Barbara Heil (hyl) of White Bear Lake, Minn., say they ......
2012-01-25 20:13:05
Lindsay Lohan's bad luck with cars continues after a woman who claims she was struck by the actress' sports car sued over her injuries Wednesday.
Nubia Del Carmen Preza claims she was struck by Lohan's Maserati while walking through a West Hollywood intersection ......
2012-01-25 17:45:39
Paul McCartney's new bride is stepping down from the board of the authority that runs New York City's public transit system.
Nancy Shevell married the Beatles great in October. She announced her resignation from the board of the Metropolitan Transportation Author......
2012-01-25 11:05:59
He was known for his slow and dream-like directing style and had enough stamina at 76 to be working on his latest movie.
But award-winning Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos was killed in a road accident Tuesday after being hit by a motorcycle while walking across......
2012-01-25 11:04:44
He was known for his slow and dream-like directing style and had enough stamina at 76 to be working on his latest movie.
But award-winning Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos was killed in a road accident Tuesday after being hit by a motorcycle while walking across......
2012-01-25 10:27:38
A western Pennsylvania man was killed last week in a helicopter accident in Afghanistan.
The Beaver County Times (http://bit.ly/Ah51zo ) reports Tuesday that 30-year-old James Scott Ozier of Imperial, just outside of Pittsburgh, was working for AAR Airlift Group ......
2012-01-25 07:52:45
Federal investigators say on propeller of a small plane that fatally crashed in central Pennsylvania apparently wasn't working at the time of a crash three days before Christmas.
A preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board says Brian Robert......
2012-01-24 20:57:57
How wonderfully unpredictable the movies can be. Who would have thought that, at nearly 60, Liam Neeson would be one of the top action stars around? It's the same, counterintuitive formula that made Michael Keaton a good Batman and the Rock a believable Tooth Fairy.
......
2012-01-24 18:26:04
Bonnie Carroll is well-known in veterans' circles as the founder of a vast organization that provides grief counseling and help for thousands of families of fallen military members.
But it was her involvement nearly 25 years ago in a high-seas effort to rescue th......
2012-01-24 16:58:42
Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos killed in road accident.......
2012-01-24 16:12:15
State police say a dump truck driver has been taken to the hospital after the bed of his vehicle lifted and hit a highway overpass as the truck drove beneath the structure in western Pennsylvania.
Police identified the driver as Tom Wilsoncroft, of West Decatur. ......
2012-01-24 11:52:48
A barge carrying a crane and other equipment hitched itself to the toppled Costa Concordia on Tuesday, signaling the start of preliminary operations to remove a half-million gallons of fuel from the grounded cruise ship before it leaks into the pristine Tuscan sea.
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2012-01-24 08:01:31
Officials say divers searching the toppled Costa Concordia have discovered another body in the submerged cruise ship.
The discovery on the third floor deck brings to 16 the number of bodies found since the Jan. 13 grounding. Officials at the Tuscan prefect's offi......
2012-01-24 07:27:18
Delaware State Police have identified a 52-year-old man who was hit by a car and killed while waiting for a bus over the weekend.
Police say Vincent Williams had been at a bus stop on Philadelphia Pike near Wilmington when he was hit by a car driven by 26-year-ol......
2012-01-24 06:57:31
Police have charged a Pennsylvania snow plow driver they say he struck a woman during a weekend snow storm then drove off.
Keith Kichline faces charges including failing to render aid in the crash that injured 20-year-old Andrena Pollanti on Saturday evening.......
2012-01-23 21:45:00
The children of a Minnesota couple missing in the Italian cruise ship disaster are still waiting for word about their parents.
The family of Jerry and Barbara Heil (hyl) of White Bear Lake, Minn., posted on their blog Monday that they continue to wait.
......
2012-01-23 21:12:57
Authorities say a man was struck and killed by a city bus in southwest Philadelphia.
Police said the accident happened at about 4 p.m. Monday in the Kingsessing section of the city.
Officers said they found the man under the westbound Southeas......
2012-01-23 18:18:09
Nudged gently by the tides off Tuscany, the capsized Costa Concordia has been deemed stable enough on its rocky perch for salvagers to begin pumping fuel oil from its giant tanks as early as Tuesday.
The cruise liner, its hull gashed by a reef and pocked by holes......
2012-01-23 16:24:47
US Airways is apologizing to a suburban Philadelphia woman who says her husband's ashes went missing from her luggage as she flew to England to bury them in his hometown of Hull.
Angeline O'Grady, of Trumbauersville, says her husband, Brian, died of cancer in Oct......
2012-01-23 14:48:02
A list of those confirmed dead or missing in the grounding of the cruise ship Costa Concordia off Italy. Italian officials released a list of the missing. Those not listed as crew are passengers.
CONFIRMED DEAD (15):
Sandor Feher, Hungary, 38,......
2012-01-23 11:49:10
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky was stopped by security at the Nashville airport Monday when a scanner set off an alarm and targeted his knee, although the senator said he has no screws or medical hardware around the joint.
The Republican, who frequently uses the......
2012-01-23 09:57:50
Italian officials say 2 more bodies recovered from cruise ship wreck. Death toll 15.......
2012-01-23 09:20:41
GIGLIO, Italy -- (AP) -- Italian officials say grounded cruise ship stable on its rocky perch.......
2012-01-23 08:24:05
State police are still investigating the death of a western Pennsylvania school bus driver who was struck by another vehicle while walking in the parking lot of her school bus company's garage.
Troopers from the Washington, Pa. barracks aren't identifying the oth......
2012-01-23 06:45:50
Shakhtar Donetsk coach Mircea Lucescu has left hospital after undergoing surgery following a car accident in Bucharest.
Lucescu's SUV was hit by a tram on Jan. 6. Surgery was performed on Lucescu because blood was gathering in his chest. He also had several broke......
2012-01-22 20:44:53
A small plane has crashed in a New Zealand park, killing both people aboard.
Authorities say the two-seater Yak aircraft fell into a playing field Monday in the town of Feilding on the country's North Island.
Police spokeswoman Kim Perks says ......
2012-01-22 20:35:04
An American Airlines spokeswoman says three crew members aboard a Brazil-to-Miami flight have been injured due to turbulence during the trip.
The Miami Herald reports (http://bit.ly/xmuPgD ) that airline spokeswoman Mary Frances Fagan says the crew members were i......
2012-01-22 15:11:35
A 26-year-old Philadelphia man is facing vehicular homicide and drunken driving charges after Delaware State Police say his car hit a man waiting for a bus, killing him.
Police say Elton Paynter was traveling southbound on Philadelphia Pike near Wilmington on Sat......
2012-01-22 05:34:06
Seventeen people have died after a storm capsized a passenger boat off of Iran's southern coast, the official IRNA news agency reported on Sunday.
The boat sank Saturday evening while sailing between Hormuz Island and the port city of Bandar Abbas on the mainland......
2012-01-22 02:55:14
A cargo ship loaded with cement sank in the central Philippines on Sunday and another vessel carrying iron ore went down off the country's eastern coast, the coast guard said. All 32 crewmen from both ships were rescued.
The ship carrying iron ore, the Panamanian......
2012-01-21 16:49:11
A weekend storm blanketed Pennsylvania in the first significant snow of the season Saturday, causing flight delays and prompting speed limit reductions on some major roads.
The storm dropped as much as 7.5 inches of snow in west-central Pennsylvania's Cambria Cou......
2012-01-21 14:55:20
Authorities say an early morning two-car crash in northeast Philadelphia killed two women and injured two other people.
Officials said a car carrying the two women was broadsided by a car carrying two males at about 2:15 a.m. Saturday in the Juniata section of th......
2012-01-21 10:59:15
The body of a woman wearing a life vest was recovered by Italian coast guard divers Saturday from a narrow underwater corridor of the capsized cruise ship Costa Concordia, raising the death toll to 12 in the week-old accident that has sent some light fuel spilling into the Mediterra......
2012-01-21 07:23:03
Tens of thousands of Pacific Northwest residents faced the prospect of a chilly weekend after a powerful storm brought snow and ice and left a tangle of fallen trees and damaged power lines. Several Oregon counties saw their worst flooding in more than a decade.
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