5 children, 1 adult die in Mississippi wreck
Five young siblings and one adult died early Saturday when a sport utility vehicle went off an eastern Mississippi road and plunged into a ...
Trains carrying more oil across US amid boom
Energy companies behind the oil boom on the Northern Plains are increasingly turning to an industrial-age workhorse — the locomotive — to move their ...
Police: Pa. man suffocated girlfriend after crash
A man suffocated his 17-year-old girlfriend by sitting on her head after he intentionally drove into a guardrail at about 100 miles per hour in the ...
Police: Cowboys' Brent had 0.189 BAC after crash
Dallas Cowboys nose tackle Josh Brent was driving with a suspended license and had a blood-alcohol content more than twice the legal limit at the time ...
Report: US law enforcement deaths down in 2012
The number of law enforcement officers who died performing their duties in the U.S. declined by about 20 percent in 2012 after rising the two previous ...

Storm's high winds, snow, sleet lash Northeast
A powerful winter storm system that pounded the nation's midsection, wrecking holiday travel plans and dumping a record snowfall in Arkansas, began ...

Delays litter long road to vehicle rearview rules
In the private hell of a mother's grief, the sounds come back to Judy Neiman. The SUV door slamming. The slight bump as she backed up in the bank ...

Air Bagan survivors tell of terrifying landing
Survivors of a Christmas Day crash-landing of an airliner in Myanmar told terrifying tales of escape Wednesday as carrier Air Bagan apologized for ...
Kazakhstan military plane crashes, killing 27
Kazakhstan's acting border service chief was among 27 people killed in a military plane crash Tuesday near a southern city, another blow to the agency ...

Plane crash-lands on Myanmar road, 2 killed
A flight packed with Christmas tourists crash-landed on a road in central Myanmar on Tuesday, killing at least two people and injuring 11, officials ...
Zimbabwe truck crash kills 18
Zimbabwe state radio says 18 people headed home for the holidays died when their open truck veered off a mountain road and plunged into a ravine in ...
NY surfer who survived Sandy drowns in Puerto Rico
A lifeguard widely praised as a hero after Superstorm Sandy for rescuing neighbors endangered by rolling floodwaters and a fire that destroyed several ...

Russia, India sign weapons deals worth billions
Russia and India signed weapons deals worth billions of dollars Monday as President Vladimir Putin sought to further boost ties with an old ally.

Head-on crash amid holiday travel kills 4 in Ohio
Four people were killed early Sunday when a minivan carrying a family leaving a Christmas party went the wrong way on a southwestern Ohio highway and ...
Judge OKs settlement in BP Gulf class action suit
A federal judge has given final approval to BP's settlement with a bulk of businesses and individuals who lost money because of the 2010 oil spill in ...
Mozambique highway collision kills 14
Police in Mozambique say 14 people died when a tire burst on a speeding minibus, causing the driver to lose control and collide with an oncoming ...

People flee Japan nuke disaster to faraway Okinawa
Okinawa is about as far away as one can get from Fukushima without leaving Japan, and that is why Minaho Kubota is here. Petrified of the radiation ...

Gunman kills woman at Pa. church, 2 men elsewhere
A man fatally shot a woman decorating for a children's Christmas party at a tiny church hall and killed two men elsewhere in a rural township on ...
UN helicopter shot down in South Sudan; 4 dead
The United Nations said South Sudan's armed forces shot down a U.N. helicopter on Friday killing all four Russian crew members on board, an attack ...

Snowstorm weakening after dumping snow in Midwest
The first widespread snowstorm of the season weakened as it moved east Friday, but not before it dumped more than 1 ½ feet of snow in Michigan and ...

55 people drowned or missing off Somali coast
The U.N. refugee agency says 55 people have drowned or are missing after an overcrowded boat capsized off the Somali coast. UNHCR said the incident ...

Indiana stage collapse victims get $6M more in aid
The Indiana attorney general's office sent out $6 million in checks Thursday to 59 victims of 2011's deadly Indiana State Fair stage collapse.

All lanes reopen on NY road after auto crashes
All lanes of the Long Island Expressway reopened Thursday following a chain reaction of fiery crashes that killed one person and injured 33 others.

Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2012
Neil Armstrong would always be taking that first step onto the moon, and Dick Clark was forever "the world's oldest teenager." Some of the notables ...