emergencies and accidents

A stunt designed to celebrate the coming of Christmas turned deadly, according to reports from the Russian community of Chelyabinsk. A man wearing a red robe to appear to be ...

Small-town government can often bring people into heated, violent exchanges that turn the process of democracy into emotional, angry and occasionally profane moments. But the worst vituperative tangle at a ...

A pilot and flight student survived after their plane crashed in Asheville, North, Carolina, Thursday night. The crash occurred around 8:15 p.m. on the I-26 highway near the Asheville Regional ...

An Arizona tribal police officer has been accused of killing a young mother in a hit-and-run incident on Thanksgiving Day -- and then returning to the scene to help with ...

Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky performed the Heimlich maneuver on fellow Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa while she was choking Thursday, according to multiple reports. The scary incident occurred ...

Investigators believe a mechanical failure could have been behind the Wednesday morning vehicle explosion at a U.S.-Canada border crossing in New York. The Niagara Falls Police Department is looking into ...

The Las Vegas Grand Prix hit a bump in the road -- literally -- as practice began Thursday. Driver Carlos Sainz Jr. struck the concrete frame of a water valve ...

Residents of Grindavík, Iceland, have been asked to evacuate after thousands of minor earthquakes indicated the enhanced possibility of a volcanic eruption in the Reykjanes volcanic system. The coastal town ...

An apocalyptic scene unfolded on a Pennsylvania highway after a tanker truck carrying jet fuel crashed, killing two and snarling traffic for hours. The Saturday episode left the truck's smoldering ...

Buffalo Bills running back Damien Harris, who was carted off the field Sunday night in an ambulance, is improving, Bills coach Sean McDermott said Monday. In a Monday media availability, ...

All Christians believe that our only hope of salvation lies in surrendering ourselves to Jesus. Every once in a while, we see people doing exactly that in a moment of ...

An explosion at an ammunition manufacturer's facility in Nebraska left one woman dead and at least two other people injured. The explosion took place Friday in a chemical compound building ...

At least a couple of federal government meetings were interrupted Wednesday by ... the federal government. A White House news briefing was in progress when the Federal Emergency Management Agency's ...

"The entire 11th Airborne Division is in mourning now for these two soldiers."

A female investigator with the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office caused a brief bit of panic at the Fulton County Courthouse last week when she fired her gun, wounding herself ...

A South Carolina man is going viral for his colorful account of how an F-35 stealth fighter aircraft near his house. Randolph White improvised his own sound effects in the ...

A massive explosion at a vast freight yard in North Platte, Nebraska, forced evacuations Thursday. The fire broke out in an intermodal container parked at Union Pacific’s Bailey Yard, railroad ...

The body of a missing swimmer was found Monday near Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where President Joe Biden has a beach house. Richard Boateng, 31, of Savage, Maryland, had last been ...

It’s been seven months since the East Palestine, Ohio, train wreck, and President Joe Biden still hasn’t visited the environmentally compromised village on the Pennsylvania border. But the media have ...

A gender reveal party held Saturday in Mexico never stopped -- even for a plane crash. A couple had decided to hire a plane as part of their gender reveal festivities ...