Three people were hurt after a century-old wooden water tank plummeted 10 stories off a Chicago apartment building, crashing to the ground below. Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford says one woman suffered “traumatic injuries” and is in critical condition …
Investigators have determined that Asiana Airlines Flight 214 was traveling “significantly below” the target speed during its approach and that the crew tried to abort the landing just before it smashed onto the runway. What they don’t yet know is …
Authorities say one person has been injured and one is missing after an explosion at a gas plant in southeast Texas. One employee remained missing hours after officials in La Porte triggered an automatic phone call to residents Saturday morning …
With the popping of cables and the snapping of metal, a crane collapsed onto a building under construction near New York’s East River waterfront Wednesday, injuring seven people, three of whom needed to be extricated from underneath the fallen machinery. …
A dust storm in West Texas triggered a series of accidents Wednesday that killed one person, injured at least 17 others and led authorities to close part of Interstate 27 north of Lubbock, a spokesman with the Texas Department of …
A new study examining pediatric injuries associated with inflatable bounce houses and moonwalks revealed a 15-fold increase in the number of inflatable-related injuries that were treated in emergency departments among children younger than 18 years of age between 1995 and …
A natural gas explosion in one of New England’s biggest cities on Friday leveled a strip club with a boom heard for miles and heavily damaged a dozen other buildings but didn’t kill anyone, authorities said. Firefighters, police officers and …
An Oklahoma legislator has been awarded $51,300 in workers’ compensation for injuries sustained in a 2009 accident while driving to the Capitol. A lawyer for state Rep. Mike Christian says he’s received the check to compensate Christian for the effects …
A stampede in an arena where thousands of people were attending a Halloween party killed three women and critically injured two on Thursday, officials said. It happened just after 4 a.m. in a passageway within the venue leading to the …
Officials say a pavilion being used for shelter during severe weather collapsed at a central Pennsylvania park, and 10 to 12 people suffered minor injuries, including several children. Authorities say several dozen people attending a baseball game Friday night sought …