August 1, 2023
A South Carolina judge has signed off on a $15.5 million settlement for the family of Mallory Beach, the 19-year-old girl who died in a 2019 boat crash that is believed to have set in motion the downfall of convicted …
July 18, 2023
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The family of a teen killed in a boat crash, which prosecutors said begin the financial downfall of double murderer Alex Murdaugh, has reached a $15 million deal to settle a lawsuit against a convenience store …
May 31, 2022
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Searchers recovered the bodies of three missing boaters Sunday after two vessels collided on a Georgia river, bringing the crash’s death toll to five people. One of the surviving boaters was charged with boating under the …
May 5, 2021
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A tractor-trailer slams into an SUV at an intersection on a remote California desert highway, killing 13 of 25 people crammed inside the late model Ford Expedition. A man dangles a toddler over a border wall …
January 27, 2014
A new report from Canadian officials says fog, fatigue and an “unfamiliarity with safety issues” factored into a pre-dawn collision between two fishing vessels that left a Port Angeles, Wash., man dead. The Peninsula Daily News reports that the Transportation …
December 12, 2012
A trial is under way for one of three men riding in a motorboat when it severed a swimmer’s legs and killed the woman, a University of Utah scientist. A jury panel was being seated Monday for Skyler Shepherd, 22, …
July 13, 2011
The boat that slammed into a concrete footing on New York’s Hudson River, killing four people, was moving so fast the collision ripped the inboard-outboard motor from its mounts and threw it into the boat, police said Monday. The 19-foot …