Despite a slight increase in pedestrian deaths, the Nevada Office of Traffic Safety says the number of people killed in traffic accidents in Nevada plunged in 2011 and will end the year at slightly more than half of the record …
A pilot and three passengers killed in a plane crash apparently had tried to return to the Sioux Falls, S.D., airport after an air traffic controller said a plume of smoke was trailing their aircraft, federal investigators said in a …
Officials say at least seven men have died and scores are feared dead after a floating oil rig off Russia’s east coast capsized and sank on Sunday. A spokeswoman for the Emergencies Ministry said Monday that rescue workers have pulled …
A gas explosion at a mine in central China has killed nine workers. The accident happened Saturday afternoon at a mine in Hunan province’s Sandu township. A Hunan work safety official says all nine workers underground at the time were …
The deaths of 14 bomb-sniffing dogs last year at Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport while awaiting air shipment to U.S. troops in Afghanistan has prompted a lawsuit from the K-9 contractor that owned the animals. According to the Houston Chronicle, American …
Bootleg liquor laced with toxic methanol killed 126 people and sickened dozens more who bought the illegal brew at small shops in eastern India, officials said Thursday. Police arrested seven suspected bootleggers. Thousands of relatives, many of them wailing, gathered …
The owners of a Canadian charter bus and a tractor-trailer are paying $36 million to settle a lawsuit over a 2005 highway collision in western New York that killed four people and injured 19, attorneys said Wednesday. The settlement with …
Detroi, Mich., authorities say an abandoned nursing home that was a target for metal scavengers collapsed, killing two people inside. Police and firefighters were at the scene of the accident Wednesday afternoon. The facility is on Detroit’s northwest side. WDIV-TV …
A British judge has ordered UK Coal to pay 1.2 million pounds ($1.85 million) following the deaths of four miners in separate incidents. Britain’s largest mining company admitted health and safety offenses in relation to the deaths of three men …
The local government office says a fire in a retirement home in the southern French port city of Marseille has killed six people and injured 15 others. The prefecture said the fire erupted overnight and was extinguished Wednesday morning. Christophe …