Midwest pelted with rain, wind, hail, tornadoes
A massive line of storms packing hail, lightning and tree-toppling winds rolled through the Midwest Wednesday evening driving people into basements ...
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 ...
Protecting NYC: Mayor's plan, successor's question
A $20 billion plan to gird New York with levees, flood gates and other defenses is a bold stroke from a mayor who saw the city through Superstorm ...
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 ...
2 wildfires burn structures in hot, dry Colorado
At least four major wildfires fueled by hot, gusty weather Tuesday burned along the front of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, including two that ...
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 ...
Boiler room explosion rattles Calif. school
An explosion Tuesday in the boiler room of a high school gymnasium was so powerful it lifted the building's roof and caused heavy damage inside but ...
Levees, removable walls proposed to protect NYC
Removable floodwalls would be erected in lower Manhattan, and levees, gates and other defenses would be built elsewhere around the city under a nearly ...
Ballpark sinkhole behind mound cancels BP in Texas
There was a sinking feeling behind the pitcher's mound at Rangers Ballpark. A busted pipe under the infield at Rangers Ballpark created a sinkhole ...
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 ...
Cleanup at Prague zoo underway after flooding
More than a decade after many of its animals drowned, the Prague Zoo is counting the cost of yet another devastating flood. In 2002, more than 100 ...
German floods could cost insurers $4 billion
Damage from the past week's flooding in Germany likely will lead to insurance claims of up to 3 billion euros ($4 billion), a credit rating agency ...
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 ...
10 women, many in 90s, escape Calif. limo fire
Ten women — some of them in their 90s — escaped unharmed from a limousine that began smoking and caught fire in Northern California just more than a ...
La. company, employees indicted in explosives case
Six executives of a Louisiana company that recycles explosives were indicted Monday in an investigation into the improper storage of millions of ...
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.
Iraq hit by wave of bomb attacks, killing dozens
A wave of car bombings rocked central and northern Iraq on Monday, killing at least 57 people and extending the deadliest eruption of violence to hit ...
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