
Stricken Japan nuke plant struggles to keep staff
Keeping the meltdown-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in northeastern Japan in stable condition requires a cast of thousands. Increasingly the plant's ...

Bangladesh: Owners' many failings led to collapse
The defects and errors that led to the world's deadliest garment-industry accident extend from the swampy ground the doomed Rana Plaza was built on, ...

Float driver says train seemed still before crash
The driver of a parade float involved in a train wreck that killed four war veterans in West Texas told investigators the oncoming train appeared to ...

More than 50 hurt when Indiana school buses crash
A school bus slammed into the back of another one Wednesday afternoon, setting off a chain-reaction crash involving four buses in northern Indiana, ...

Trial for captain in deadly shipwreck in Italy
An Italian judge has ordered the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship to stand trial for manslaughter in the vessel's shipwreck off the coast ...

NY funeral for student accidentally shot by police
They hesitated at first, but then they came from all over the church: young women in black shuffling out of the pews and down the side aisles to the ...
Russian drunk driver who killed orphans sentenced
A Russian drunken driver who sparked a nationwide debate after killing seven, including five orphan children, in a road accident last year has been ...
Feds open special inspection into NC nuke plant
Federal regulators said Wednesday that they are conducting a special inspection of a nuclear power plant outside North Carolina's capital city that ...

Conn. rail service returns to normal
Regular train service returned to Connecticut on Wednesday, five days after a derailment injured scores of commuters and damaged tracks. Commuter rail ...

Teachers credited with saving students in Okla.
The principal's voice came on over the intercom at Plaza Towers Elementary School: A severe storm was approaching and students were to go to the ...

Goat on the lam snarls NJ's Pulaski Skyway traffic
A goat believed to have escaped en route to a slaughterhouse snarled the morning commute along one of the busiest roadways in northern New Jersey on ...

SAfrican court acquits brother of Oscar Pistorius
One Pistorius brother is free of charges — acquitted Tuesday of culpable homicide in the death of a woman in a road accident. The famous younger ...
2 donkeys suspected in mauling death in Hungary
Hungarian police say they are investigating an incident in which an elderly man may have been mauled to death by two donkeys. It happened May 13 in ...

Death in Zimbabwe results in unusual US charge
The facts laid out by prosecutors are plain: In 2008, a U.S. government employee on assignment in Zimbabwe drove through the capital of Harare in his ...
Montana man dies in Yosemite climbing accident
A Montana man died in a rock climbing accident as he tried to climb to the top of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, authorities said.
Judge tosses ex-BP executive's obstruction charge
A federal judge has dismissed a charge that is the backbone of the case against a former BP executive accused of concealing information from Congress ...

Conn. lawmakers to seek hearings on derailment
Commuters navigated a patchwork of cars, trains and buses along Connecticut's shoreline Monday, encountering lengthy delays as authorities probed the ...

Study: Most shipwrecks a minor US pollution threat
Shipwrecks lying deep off America's coasts are more often historical artifacts than present-day threats from leaking old oil tanks, a new federal ...

Young Americans waste no time qualifying for Indy
Bump Day at Indianapolis followed the script. No surprises, no drama and no drivers getting bumped. On a day devoid of tension and rumors, all nine ...
2 FBI agents killed in training accident in Va.
Two FBI special agents on the agency's elite Hostage Rescue Team have been killed in a training accident in Virginia, officials said Sunday.

Weeklong traffic mess possible after CT derailment
Traffic in southwest Connecticut could be a mess for as much as a week until service is restored to the commuter rail line affected by a derailment ...

Official: Va. driver likely had medical condition
Authorities believe the driver who plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Virginia mountain town parade suffered from a medical condition and did ...