emergencies and accidents

The American flag outside an electric golf cart manufacturer's facility in Evans, Georgia, flew at half-staff this week in memory of a worker there who died after getting caught in ...

A Boeing aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing in Los Angeles on Wednesday night in the latest bit of negative publicity for the company. No injuries were reported ...

Angela Chao, sister-in-law of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, placed a panicked phone call from her vehicle the night she died. "The car had zipped backward, tipping over an embankment ...

Three of the four people on board a helicopter were killed when it crashed near the U.S. border with Mexico, according to local officials. The fourth person was critically injured. ...

A massive fire and explosion ripped through a Michigan building Monday night, launching pieces of metal debris into the air. Initial reports said that a firefighter and a bystander were ...

A massive truck explosion injured a number of Los Angeles firefighters, two of them critically, early Thursday morning in the city’s Wilmington neighborhood. KABC-TV reported the blast occurred just before ...

Two JetBlue airplanes collided on the tarmac at Boston’s Logan Airport on Thursday morning. According to WFXT-TV, the collision occurred at around 6:40 a.m. ET as one plane was maneuvering ...

President Joe Biden is scheduled to visit East Palestine, Ohio, this month, the site of a train derailment a year ago. Biden was criticized at the time for not traveling ...

Investigators in Clearwater, Florida, are working to determine how many people are dead after a small airplane crashed into a senior living community Thursday. Multiple people on the ground were ...

President Joe Biden must have made the decision to finally show up in East Palestine, Ohio, one year after the catastrophic train derailment and toxic chemical spill all by himself. ...

A mystery lies at the end of the Virginia fishing pier in the form of an SUV that was driven off it on Saturday. Virginia Beach police said the incident ...

Actor Jeremy Renner is returning to TV screens for the first time since his harrowing, near-fatal snowplow accident last January. Renner will return for the third season of the hit ...

A popular YouTuber is still recovering after his attempt in November to fire a rocket launcher in a video on the social media platform ended with the weapon failing and ...

One mother in Kentucky says she is thankful to be alive after ending up as a quadruple amputee following a routine surgery. Cindy Mullins, 41, told WLEX-TV in Lexington she ...

We need never live in fear, but humility and a healthy respect for nature would go a long way. A 92-second video posted Thursday to X showed the moment a ...

One Jacksonville, Florida, family felt the sting of loss two times this fall, exactly three months apart. On Dec. 1 at approximately 1:15 a.m., parents Jason and Shawnee Penkacik lost ...

Residents of an Arizona town are reeling at the loss of five children who died in a house fire that started while the father was out Christmas shopping. A candlelight ...

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 ...