The head of a crew scrambling to gain control of a high speed ferry before it crashed into a Manhattan pier reported having no time to warn hundreds of passengers, federal investigators said Friday. The preliminary factual account by the …
A former Wiggins businessman has been sentenced to serve 12 years in prison for defrauding south Mississippi homeowners who had hired him to fix their properties after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005. Harrison County Circuit Judge John Gargiulo sentenced 53-year-old …
J.D. Williams didn’t think much about the smoke cloud that often shrouded his air base in Iraq. Not when it covered everything he owned with black soot or when his wheezing and coughing made it difficult to sleep at night. …
A Minneapolis man is accused of taking a customer’s Lamborghini for a joyride and then crashing it in a park, causing $82,000 in damage to the luxury sports car. Forty-year-old David Norman Juntunen was charged Friday with unauthorized use of …
A fire swept through a two-story garment factory in Bangladesh’s capital Saturday, killing at least seven female workers and injuring another five, police and fire officials said. The fire at the Smart factory occurred just two months after a blaze …
A fire ripped through a new Moscow building’s underground parking lot on Saturday, killing 10 migrant workers and injuring 13 others who had been working and living there, city police said. All those who died were citizens of Tajikistan, Moscow …
Orange County, Calif., prosecutors say a 36-year-old man has been charged with setting a series of fires to distract residents whose homes he would then rob. A district attorney’s statement said Jose Jesus Baca Jr. was charged Thursday with four …
An arm of the World Bank next week will unveil a $1.96 million project that aims to help thousands of low-income entrepreneurs in Haiti protect their livelihoods against natural disasters. The International Finance Corporation says the program is much-needed. Only …
Mechanical failure has been ruled out as a potential cause behind a school bus accident in Covington, Ga., that left over 40 students and adults hospitalized earlier this week. The Covington News reports the Georgia State Patrol and the state …
Federal accident investigators say a short-circuit and an uncontrolled chemical reaction apparently took place in a Boeing 787 battery before the battery caught fire earlier this month in Boston. National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah Hersman says investigators have not …