Philly inspector kills self after deadly collapse
A veteran Philadelphia building inspector who apparently committed suicide had inspected the site of a deadly building collapse twice in February, and ...
La. state police: Blast, fire at chemical plant
Louisiana State Police say a reported explosion has started a fire at a chemical plant. Capt. Doug Cain says the fire broke out Thursday morning at ...
EU presents post-Fukushima nuclear safety rules
The European Commission proposed tougher nuclear safety rules Thursday, amid international debate about the future of nuclear energy and how to secure ...
France hit by train strike after airport action
After two days of air traffic controller strikes, French rail workers walked off the job Thursday to protest a reorganization of the national rail and ...
NASCAR mourns death of driver Jason Leffler
NASCAR driver Jason "LefTurn" Leffler died Wednesday after an accident in a heat race at a dirt car event at Bridgeport Speedway. The 37-year-old ...
2 officers injured in Obama motorcade in Florida
Two Miami police officers were injured Wednesday while participating in President Barack Obama's motorcade in Florida, police said. Neither of the ...
Leffler dies after accident in dirt car event
NASCAR driver Jason Leffler died after an accident Wednesday night in a heat race at a dirt car event at Bridgeport Speedway. The 37-year-old Leffler, ...
Fukushima plant steps closer to fuel-rod removal
Damaged vehicles, twisted metal and other debris remain strewn about Japan's crippled nuclear power plant. Scores of black and gray pipes and hoses ...
Victim in Texas parade crash accused of lying
An ex-police officer from Georgia who was injured in a train accident during a veterans parade in Texas is accused of lying about receiving a Purple ...
Police: Pool water heater cited in NC motel deaths
A faulty pool water heater was the source of carbon monoxide that killed an 11-year-old boy at a North Carolina motel last weekend and a couple who ...
FEMA denies aid for Texas fertilizer plant blast
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is refusing to provide additional money to help rebuild the small Texas town where a deadly fertilizer plant ...
Rail crossing stop signs faded at Md. crash site
Stop signs at a rail crossing where a train and trash truck crashed in a Baltimore suburb were faded and one was hung upside down and facing away from ...
Seatbelts could have prevented 3 Boston U deaths
Three Boston University students who were killed last year in New Zealand when their minivan rolled might have survived if they were wearing ...
Multiple injuries reported in Kentucky bus crash
A bus carrying students on a college campus visit veered out of control and crashed on a Kentucky interstate Tuesday, and nearly three dozen people ...
90-year-old lobsterman survives sinking off Maine
A 90-year-old lobsterman is eager to get back on the water after surviving the sinking of his boat by swimming to a nearby island through the cold ...
27-car Nev. sandstorm pileup kills 1, hurts others
Twenty-seven vehicles slammed into each other during a sandstorm that blinded drivers on Interstate 80 in rural northern Nevada, killing a truck ...
News Summary: Civilian planes shot down by MANPADS
Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb is now thought to possess the SA-7, a surface-to-air missile in the category of MANPADS, or man-portable air-defense ...
Philadelphia collapse survivor describes ordeal
The city's top prosecutor announced a grand jury was being convened to investigate a building collapse that killed six people and injured 13 others, ...
Brazil govt to perform crash tests after AP report
After a decade of spiking fatalities from passenger car wrecks, the Brazilian government said Monday it plans to build its first auto crash test ...
Cleanup work after BP oil spill end in 3 states
Cleanup work has ended in three of the states affected by BP PLC's massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the company said Monday.
Ex-NBA star in jail, charged in fatal Ga. crash
Former NBA All-Star Daron "Mookie" Blaylock is out of the hospital and in jail, charged with vehicular homicide in a car crash south of Atlanta.
Swollen Elbe River breaches new levee in Germany
The swollen Elbe River breached another levee early Monday on its relentless march toward the North Sea, forcing German authorities to evacuate 10 ...
Bangladesh says 7 failed to check doomed factories
Bangladesh has suspended seven inspectors it accuses of negligence for renewing the licenses of garment factories in a building that collapsed in ...
Lawyers slam demolition work at Pa. collapse site
Attorneys for four people suing over the collapse of a downtown building that killed six people last week lambasted the demolition work after ...
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