November 1, 2011
Police say a truck and a small bus have crashed in southern Hungary, killing 14 people and seriously injuring two more. The accident happened shortly before midnight Sunday between the cities of Mako and Szeged, near the border with Romania. …
October 26, 2011
IndyCar drivers and officials debated how to make open-wheel racing safer Monday. Now comes the hard part: turning talk into action. More than a dozen IndyCar drivers met for three hours with series CEO Randy Bernard and Brian Barnhart, the …
October 26, 2011
Five people were injured when a dump truck coming down a steep hill on a northern New Jersey highway collided with eight cars and then overturned. Authorities say most of the victims sustained head and neck injuries, none of which …
October 25, 2011
Fourteen people have been hurt after a car hit two buses carrying members of a high school band in Winston-Salem. Police say the wreck happened late Saturday night after a car crossed the centerline of a road and hit an …
October 25, 2011
A truck hauling millions of bees overturned in southern Utah and authorities are trying to capture the swarming insects. The Deseret News says the tractor-trailer was carrying an estimated 25 million bees when it overturned on the highway near St. …
October 25, 2011
A defunct German research satellite crashed into the Earth somewhere in Southeast Asia on Sunday, a U.S. scientist said – but no one is still quite sure where. Most parts of the minivan-sized ROSAT research satellite were expected to burn …
October 25, 2011
The family of a rural Brandon man killed in 2009 when a train collided with his truck has filed a lawsuit against the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad. The Argus Leader reports that the family of Robert Defries filed the …
October 20, 2011
A retired satellite is hurtling toward the atmosphere and pieces of it could crash into the Earth as early as Friday, the German Aerospace Center says. Scientists are no longer able to communicate with the dead German satellite ROSAT, which …
October 20, 2011
Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos says a bill compensating a car crash victim will get an earlier start in the 2012 legislative session. Haridopolos appeared Tuesday at a news conference with Eric Brody and his parents to support the nearly …
October 19, 2011
A third federal lawsuit has been filed stemming from a fatal July accident at the All-Good Music Festival near Masontown. Elizabeth Rose Doran, 21, of Mount Pleasant, S.C., filed the lawsuit alleging negligence against the event’s producer, the venue’s owner …