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Soda spills, freezes on Pa. road when rigs crash
Everyone knows soda can be bad for your teeth. Sometimes, it can apparently threaten the morning commute, too. Police say two tractor-trailers ...
Scores of vehicles snared in Ohio highway pileups
Blowing snow and slick roadways in various parts of the state on Monday set off multiple highway pileups, including one outside Cincinnati involving ...
Car crash kills 14 in southern Egypt
An Egyptian security official says a speeding truck collided with a minibus on a highway in the country's south, killing 14 people and injuring 13 ...
Climbers killed by UK avalanche 'fell 1,000 feet'
A mountain rescuer says the four climbers who died in an avalanche in the Scotland Highlands fell around 1,000 feet (300 meters) and ended up buried ...
Aviation technology advances, FAA tries to keep up
After two separate and serious battery problems aboard Boeing 787s, it wasn't U.S. authorities who acted first to ground the plane. It was Japanese ...
What Te'o said to try to explain girlfriend hoax
Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o tried to clear the air about how he fell into an online relationship with a fictitious woman he met online who called ...
4 climbers die in Scottish Highlands avalanche
An avalanche killed four climbers in the Scottish Highlands on Saturday, police said. The victims were in a group of six climbers — three men and ...
3-D sonar provides new view of Civil War shipwreck
The remains of the only U.S. Navy ship sunk in the Gulf of Mexico during Civil War combat now can be seen in 3-D sonar images from the Gulf's murky ...
Toyota settles bellwether wrongful death lawsuit
Toyota Motor Corp. has settled what was to be the first in a group of hundreds of pending wrongful death and injury lawsuits involving sudden, ...
Robert Wagner not interviewed in new Wood inquiry
Robert Wagner has declined to be interviewed by detectives in a renewed inquiry into the drowning death of his wife Natalie Wood three decades ago, ...
Mother of Poland's Kaczynski twins dies at 86
Jadwiga Kaczynska, the mother of the late President Lech Kaczynski and his identical twin brother Jaroslaw — an unusual political duo who shaped ...
Death toll in Egypt building collapse rises to 26
Egyptian health officials say the death toll in the collapse of an eight-story apartment building in the coastal city of Alexandria has risen to 26.
After another emergency, FAA grounds Boeing 787s
The federal government grounded Boeing's newest and most technologically advanced jetliner Wednesday, declaring that U.S. airlines cannot fly the 787 ...
Interior chief Salazar stepping down in March
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who oversaw a moratorium on offshore drilling after the BP oil spill and promoted alternative energy sources ...
2 dead, 13 hurt after helicopter crashes in London
A helicopter crashed into a crane and fell on a crowded street in central London during rush hour Wednesday, sending flames and black plumes of smoke ...
Rig victims' relatives weigh in on BP plea deal
Shelley Anderson, whose husband was one of 11 workers killed in the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion, made a New Year's resolution to try to avoid ...
Collapse of apartment building in Egypt kills 25
An eight-story apartment building collapsed Wednesday in the port city of Alexandria, killing at least 25 people in the second deadly accident to hit ...
From misery to tragedy in Egyptian train crash
Packed in a rickety train speeding through the night, the poorly fed, pale-looking Egyptian conscripts were coming from some of Egypt's most dirt-poor ...
Not guilty pleas entered for Lohan on misdemeanors
Lindsay Lohan pleaded not guilty Tuesday to three misdemeanor charges related to a car crash and was ordered to appear in court for a hearing later ...
Tatler magazine mourns dog killed in door accident
British high-society magazine Tatler is mourning its beloved office dog, Alan, who died in a revolving-door accident. Tatler said long-haired ...
Expired license for missing Missoni CEO's pilot
The pilot of the plane that disappeared Jan. 4 over Venezuela with the CEO of Italian fashion house Missoni and five others on board had an expired ...
Stolen train crashes into building in Sweden
A woman stole an empty commuter train from a depot Tuesday and drove it to a suburb of Stockholm where it derailed and slammed into an apartment ...
Coroner releases new report on Natalie Wood death
Some of the bruises found on Natalie Wood's body may have occurred before the actress drowned in the waters off Southern California more than 30 years ...
19 killed in Egypt train crash
At least 19 people died and more than 100 were injured when two railroad passenger cars derailed just south of Cairo after midnight Monday, health ...
Milan Fashion Week starts on somber note
Milan Fashion Week started off on a somber note Saturday, as the design world maintained a vigil for the missing CEO of the family-run Missoni fashion ...