A packed train slammed into the end of the line in Buenos Aires’ busy Once station Wednesday, injuring at least 340 morning commuters, Argentina’s transportation secretary said. “There are people still trapped, people alive, and there may have been fatalities. …
A judge gave the maximum sentence possible to a man who admitted to setting fire to an office complex in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Twenty-six-year-old Mark K. Carleton was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in prison. He pleaded guilty last month …
A northwest Iowa family escapes a house fire, but is displaced after the blaze causes an estimated $40,000 in damage. The Le Mars Daily Sentinel reports that smoke and carbon monoxide detectors alerted Corey and Nancy Isebrand to the fire …
A 40-foot boat that exploded at a marina on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula Tuesday evening broke windows, inflicted shrapnel-type damage on other nearby vessels and seriously injured a 78-year-old man, firefighters said. The force of the blast sank the boat, briefly …
Investigators say they are looking into five fires that were intentionally set in the same area of Charlotte, N.C. Fire department spokesman Rob Brisley says the fires started at around 4 a.m. Sunday and were set throughout the morning. Brisley …
The National Weather Service has now documented paths of destruction from at least 10 tornadoes in the outbreak of storms across central Alabama early Monday. Recently completed surveys show that tornadoes struck in Perry and Chilton counties, including an EF-2 …
A rare winter tornado that swept through a southern Indiana community last week left a tool-and-die business with about $1 million in damage. The tornado packing winds up to 85 mph tore off part of the roof on Clifty Engineering …
A 43-year-old man has been charged with setting a string of fires that caused more than $500,000 in damage to several structures and vehicles in a northern New York village. State police say Joseph King of Port Henry was charged …
Fairfax County fire officials have determined that a house fire last month at the residence of a federal judge from Virginia was intentionally set. The December fire at the McLean home of U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady caused $300,000 in …
A fire at a San Diego, Calif., elementary school has caused an estimated $600,000 in damage. Classes have been canceled Tuesday at Alice Birney school in the University Heights neighborhood. The fire was reported at around 11:45 p.m. Monday. It …