More than 100,000 Vietnamese have been killed or injured by land mines or other abandoned explosives since the Vietnam War ended nearly 40 years ago, and clearing all of the country will take decades more, officials said Monday. “The war’s …
A fire that burned a gas station near Denali National Park was apparently started by an explosion inside the convenience store, Alaska State Troopers said. Trooper Sgt. Mike Roberts told the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner the cause of the explosion has …
Thousands of fans stormed the field and tore down goalposts after Oklahoma State’s 44-10 college football victory over archrival Oklahoma, leaving at least 13 people injured, including two in critical condition, medical authorities said early Sunday. Michael Authement, who heads …
A Baxter County district court judge has given a former Berryville school bus driver the option of performing community service instead of doing jail time for a 2010 crash that injured 11 passengers. Judge Van Gearhart on Friday found Warren …
Brazilian authorities say a tractor-trailor has slammed into a bus carrying sugarcane cutters, killing at least 33 people and injuring 13 others. A police spokesman says the truck driver lost control as he was rounding a corner and heading down …
Police say a fire that started at market stalls and spread to homes in a crowded Hong Kong neighborhood has killed 9 people and injured dozens. People climbed to the roofs of low-rise apartment buildings as the fire spread after …
Police say a Great Falls woman sustained serious injuries when she jumped from a moving vehicle after getting into an argument with her husband, who has been charged with a fourth driving under the influence and driving without insurance. Great …
A Florida rental car customer’s auto insurer must cover crash injuries, even though the driver was someone not authorized under the rental car company’s contact. In a 5-2 opinion on Nov. 23, the Florida Supreme Court overturned a district court …
An explosion aboard a 26-foot power boat in an Orange County harbor left eight of the nine people aboard injured. Huntington Beach Fire Capt. Bob Culhane tells the Orange County Register the boat was just a few minutes into a …
Police say a 52-vehicle pileup on a highway in northwestern Germany has left three people dead and 35 injured. The accident happened Friday evening on the A31 autobahn near the town of Gronau on the border with the Netherlands. The …