http://www.mail.com/subjects/302-accidents-disasters.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.20/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/302-accidents-disasters.html http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1763348-911-concert-musicians-turn-sandy.html NEW YORK (AP) — Call the "12-12-12" benefit show "The Concert for New York City" 2.0. Eleven years after the benefit concert in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was held at Madison Square Garden, many of the same top musicians came together to raise money for those suffering from Superstorm Sandy, including Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, Billy Joel, The Who, E... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:57:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1763348-911-concert-musicians-turn-sandy.html 2012-12-13T11:57:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1759934-nkorea-years-credible-missiles.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — They don't call it rocket science for nothing. North Korea's first successful launch of a three-stage, long-range rocket has outraged world leaders who consider it similar to a missile capable of attacking the United States, Europe and other far-away targets. But experts say Pyongyang is years away from even having a shot at deve... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:52:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1759934-nkorea-years-credible-missiles.html 2012-12-13T10:52:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1763308-calif-robbery-spurs-chase-long-campus-lockdown.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — What began as yet another car chase on Southern California freeways turned into a saga that spanned three counties, with one of five suspects arrested within sight of the Los Angeles police chief at a charity event and other suspects leaving students and staff stranded for up to eight hours as police searched the Cal State Fullerton campus. ... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:26:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1763308-calif-robbery-spurs-chase-long-campus-lockdown.html 2012-12-13T09:26:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1763416-cowboys-to-practice-memorial-service.html IRVING, Texas (AP) — The corner locker assigned to Jerry Brown at the Dallas Cowboys facility remained untouched Wednesday. A day after a private memorial service for Brown, the practice squad member killed in a car accident involving a teammate, his Cowboys helmet hung on a hook below a shelf with several pairs of cleats. Towels marked with his No. 53 we... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 08:33:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1763416-cowboys-to-practice-memorial-service.html 2012-12-13T08:33:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1763390-chilean-town-shaken-reminders-deadly-quake.html NAVIDAD, Chile (AP) — One jolt hit in the middle of the night. Another caught fishermen at a nearby beach. Then the ground shook at supper. And then again, and again: More than 170 tremors were felt in Navidad in just five weeks. The strongest struck during a funeral, and sent panicked mourners fleeing into the street. Navidad, a coastal farming town of 5... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 08:21:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1763390-chilean-town-shaken-reminders-deadly-quake.html 2012-12-13T08:21:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1761310-music-comedy-strike-defiant-tone-sandy-concert.html NEW YORK (AP) — Musicians were so intent upon helping victims of Superstorm Sandy that they didn't seem to want their benefit concert in New York to end. The final notes of Alicia Keys' "Empire State of Mind" closed the star-studded show at 1:19 a.m. Thursday, nearly six hours after Bruce Springsteen set a roaring tone with "Land of Hope and Dreams." In b... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 07:07:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1761310-music-comedy-strike-defiant-tone-sandy-concert.html 2012-12-13T07:07:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1762914-police-search-calif-campus-robbery-suspects.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Students at Cal State Fullerton who barricaded themselves inside classrooms and dorm rooms Wednesday afternoon prepared to stay put into the night as police searched for two suspects in a jewelry store robbery, while another suspect was caught after a high-speed pursuit that spanned three counties and ended on a baseball field where Los Angeles' police chi... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 05:28:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1762914-police-search-calif-campus-robbery-suspects.html 2012-12-13T05:28:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1759254-feds-to-probe-why-alarms-failed-wva-explosion.html SISSONVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — Federal investigators are looking into why no alarms sounded as a massive natural gas explosion sent flames as high as hilltops, engulfing homes and a large section of an interstate for more than an hour. Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board will visit Columbia Gas Transmission's Charleston control room thi... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 02:22:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1759254-feds-to-probe-why-alarms-failed-wva-explosion.html 2012-12-13T02:22:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1761728-colorado-river-depleting-regional-resource.html LAS VEGAS (AP) — The federal government isn't going to tap the Missouri River to slake the thirst of a drought-parched Southwest, the government's top water official said Wednesday. But rising demand and falling supply have water managers in the arid West considering a host of other options to deal with dire projections that the Colorado River — the main ... Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:21:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1761728-colorado-river-depleting-regional-resource.html 2012-12-12T22:21:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1762418-senate-dems-offer-sandy-disaster-aid-package.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats on Wednesday finished cobbling together a $60.4 billion disaster aid package for New York, New Jersey and other states hit by Superstorm Sandy in late October. Working from the emergency spending request President Barack Obama made five days ago, the Senate Appropriations Committee released its draft of the legislation. ... Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:10:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1762418-senate-dems-offer-sandy-disaster-aid-package.html 2012-12-12T22:10:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1761420-noaa-chief-will-leave-february.html NEW YORK (AP) — The woman who was a key figure in the federal government's response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 said Wednesday she will leave her post at the end of February. "I have decided to return to my family and academia," Jane Lubchenco, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, wrote to NOAA employees... Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:05:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1761420-noaa-chief-will-leave-february.html 2012-12-12T22:05:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1760950-googled-2012-whitney-psy-sandy.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — The world's attention wavered between the tragic and the silly in 2012, and along the way, millions of people searched the Web to find out about a royal princess, the latest iPad, and a record-breaking skydiver. Whitney Houston was the "top trending" search of the year, according to Google Inc.'s year-end "zeitgeist" report. Google's 12... Wed, 12 Dec 2012 20:03:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1760950-googled-2012-whitney-psy-sandy.html 2012-12-12T20:03:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1761718-sandy-nyc-eyes-moving-power-gear-higher.html NEW YORK (AP) — A major push is on to move New York City's electrical infrastructure to higher ground or upper floors after Superstorm Sandy sent seawater pouring into low-lying substations and skyscraper basements and plunged half of Manhattan into darkness for four days. The effort, likely to be enormously costly, will center partly on two old weaknesse... Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:16:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1761718-sandy-nyc-eyes-moving-power-gear-higher.html 2012-12-12T17:16:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1760470-inquiry-86-crash-killing-mozambique-leader.html JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African police have opened a new investigation into the 1986 airplane crash that killed Mozambique's Marxist president and more than 20 others, an official said Wednesday, an incident many have blamed on the former apartheid government. President Samora Machel, who had led Mozambique from its independence in 1975, died when the t... Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:26:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1760470-inquiry-86-crash-killing-mozambique-leader.html 2012-12-12T10:26:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1759814-mexico-riveras-plane-hit-with-terrible-impact.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — The plane carrying Mexican-American music superstar Jenni Rivera plunged almost vertically from more than 28,000 feet and hit the ground in a nose-dive at a speed that may have exceeded 600 miles per hour, Mexico's top transportation official said Tuesday. In the first detailed account of the moments leading up to the crash that killed ... Wed, 12 Dec 2012 01:23:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1759814-mexico-riveras-plane-hit-with-terrible-impact.html 2012-12-12T01:23:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1759562-senator-rock-removal-mississippi-to-start.html ST. LOUIS (AP) — Crews might be allowed to begin destroying two rock pinnacles impeding barge traffic on the Mississippi River as early as next week, more than a month ahead of schedule, a senator said Tuesday, cautioning that further steps may be needed to ensure the vital shipping route remains open. U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and two river industry tr... Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:27:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1759562-senator-rock-removal-mississippi-to-start.html 2012-12-12T00:27:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1759396-families-fear-sandy-killed-cottages-traditions.html BRIGANTINE, N.J. (AP) — The small yellow cottage has always been more than a house to Bob Bratek and his family. It was their tiny slice of oceanfront heaven, a repository of family memories built in the '60s with the hands of three generations of Brateks and any materials they could find. "It was made of pieces and hearts and souls and emotions and memor... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:28:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1759396-families-fear-sandy-killed-cottages-traditions.html 2012-12-11T23:28:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1759222-cowboys-brent-attends-memorial-with-team-support.html DALLAS (AP) — Jason Garrett gave the Dallas Cowboys a day off after his players somehow pulled off a win in Cincinnati while reeling from a one-car accident that killed one teammate and landed another in jail. Many players showed up at team headquarters anyway and there was Josh Brent, the hulking defensive tackle who missed the trip after police say he w... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:47:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1759222-cowboys-brent-attends-memorial-with-team-support.html 2012-12-11T22:47:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1759736-jan-to-rule-bp-45b-plea-deal-spill.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge will decide next month whether to accept a plea deal that calls for BP PLC to pay a record $4.5 billion in penalties for its role in a deadly 2010 rig explosion and the massive oil spill it triggered in the Gulf of Mexico. To resolve a Justice Department probe, the London-based oil giant agreed last month to plead guilty... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:14:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1759736-jan-to-rule-bp-45b-plea-deal-spill.html 2012-12-11T22:14:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1759274-medical-helicopter-hit-bad-weather-crash.html CHICAGO (AP) — A medical helicopter pilot hit bad weather and was trying to return to the hospital hangar shortly before the aircraft crashed into a northern Illinois field, killing him and two nurses, authorities said Tuesday. Pilot Andy Olesen radioed to dispatchers at Rockford Memorial Hospital that he was turning around because he had "encountered som... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:30:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1759274-medical-helicopter-hit-bad-weather-crash.html 2012-12-11T21:30:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1759538-why-efforts-to-factory-fires-failed.html About a year and a half before a fire at a clothing factory in Bangladesh killed 112 people in November, executives from Wal-Mart, Gap and other big retailers met nearby to discuss ways to prevent the unsafe working conditions that have made such tragedies common. Representatives from a dozen of the world's largest retailers and fashion labels gathered wi... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:25:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1759538-why-efforts-to-factory-fires-failed.html 2012-12-11T21:25:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1758152-ntsb-use-ignition-locks-drunken-drivers.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Every state should require convicted drunken drivers, including first-time offenders, to use devices that prevent them from starting a car's engine if their breath tests positive for alcohol, the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday. The ignition interlock devices — already required for all convicted drunken drivers in 17 st... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:12:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1758152-ntsb-use-ignition-locks-drunken-drivers.html 2012-12-11T19:12:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1758832-cyprus-court-orders-retrial-plane-crash.html NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus' Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a new trial for four former airline officials who had been acquitted of manslaughter and other charges for a 2005 plane crash that killed 121 passengers and crew members. The Helios Airways crash drew international attention because of the unusual circumstances surrounding it. Greek investiga... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:03:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1758832-cyprus-court-orders-retrial-plane-crash.html 2012-12-11T19:03:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1757460-mexico-tests-dna-jenni-rivera-plane-crash.html MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities were performing DNA tests Tuesday on remains believed to belong to Mexican-American music superstar Jenni Rivera and six other people killed when her plane went down in northern Mexico. Investigators said it would take days to piece together the wreckage of the plane carrying Rivera and find out why it went dow... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:32:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1757460-mexico-tests-dna-jenni-rivera-plane-crash.html 2012-12-11T18:32:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1757734-apnewsbreak-explo-faced-scrutiny-la-scare.html DOYLINE, La. (AP) — The explosives recycling company that caused the evacuation of a Louisiana town has come under scrutiny for explosions and its handling of dangerous materials before, and it was so far behind on its rent that the Louisiana National Guard refused to lease it more space. Explo Systems Inc. was cited for safety violations by the federal g... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:54:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1757734-apnewsbreak-explo-faced-scrutiny-la-scare.html 2012-12-11T15:54:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1758412-14-killed-bridge-collapses-south-africa.html JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Heavy rains in South Africa have caused a bridge to collapse, killing 14 people. The South African Press Association reported Tuesday that the bridge collapsed in the nation's Mpumalanga province. Joseph Mabuza, a spokesman for the province's safety department, said that three vehicles drove onto the bridge in the dark after it had col... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:31:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1758412-14-killed-bridge-collapses-south-africa.html 2012-12-11T15:31:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1757504-crashes-raise-concern-pakistani-air-force.html ISLAMABAD (AP) — Over a dozen Pakistani air force planes have crashed in roughly the past 18 months, raising concerns about the health of an aging fleet that officials are struggling to upgrade because of a lack of funds. A significant number of the air force's combat aircraft are nearly half a century old and have been called on in recent years to help t... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 05:50:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1757504-crashes-raise-concern-pakistani-air-force.html 2012-12-11T05:50:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1757440-faa-3-killed-medical-helicopter-crash-ill.html ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say a medical helicopter has crashed in northern Illinois, killing all three people on board. The Federal Aviation Administration reports the helicopter crashed Monday night while traveling from Rockford, near the Wisconsin border, to a hospital about 60 miles south in Mendota. The helicopter was registered to Rockford Me... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 04:36:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1757440-faa-3-killed-medical-helicopter-crash-ill.html 2012-12-11T04:36:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1755760-ntsb-singer-rivera-dead-mexican-plane-crash.html MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — U.S. authorities confirmed Monday that Jenni Rivera, a U.S.-born singer whose soulful voice and openness about her personal troubles made her a Mexican-American superstar, was killed in a plane crash in northern Mexico. The National Transportation Safety Board said it was sending a team to help investigate the crash, and the board... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 01:47:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1755760-ntsb-singer-rivera-dead-mexican-plane-crash.html 2012-12-11T01:47:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1757104-cowboys-player-death-raises-question-safety-net.html IRVING, Texas (AP) — San Francisco 49ers defensive end Demarcus Dobbs walked away from a one-vehicle accident on his 25th birthday last month and was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. Less than two weeks later, with the NFL rocked by the car crash that killed Dallas Cowboys player Jerry Brown and left his teammate, Josh Brent, facing a... Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1757104-cowboys-player-death-raises-question-safety-net.html 2012-12-10T22:58:00Z