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A smoky fire at a New York City sanitation pier has drawn more than 130 firefighters.

Crew members from Kentucky and Florida have been identified as the two people killed when a UPS cargo plane crashed shortly after takeoff outside Dubai

A Massachusetts golf course groundskeeper who drove a lawn mower into a water hazard and got stuck under it has drowned.

Newly released video shows firefighters arriving at the scene of a blazing plane accident at Denver International Airport and finding a calm scene.

In the end, Earl's worst damage in New England was to seasonal businesses hoping to end their summer on a high note.

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and her parents are in an office supply store, disagreeing about hanging files, of all things.

Authorities have identified the man who they say went from big winnings at a Southern California casino to death at the hands of robbers.

all ahead of a 9/11 anniversary they fear could bring more trouble for their communities.

Icelike crystals had formed Saturday on the 300-ton blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, forcing BP crews to wait before they could safely hoist the de...

A man who told Mexican authorities he ordered the March killing of a U.S. Consulate worker in Mexico has been extradited to the U.S. and appeared in a federal court in Texas, the San Antonio Exp...

An Arizona mother is suffering from severe burns to her face and chest after another woman allegedly threw a powerful acid at her face. 

Teachers who were fired and ultimately rehired in a dispute that focused national debate over education reform have returned to their classrooms amid hopes that changes they agreed to will help ...

An 18-year-old college student drowned Friday while cutting grass at a Massachusetts golf course in what appeared to be a tragic accident, police said.

Two prominent, popular brothers who operate the second-largest vegetable farm in Hawaii will be sentenced in federal court this week on human trafficking charges -- they pleaded guilty -- but two former state governors, community groups, fellow farmers and other supporters are trying to keep them out of prison.

A New York nurse and her father were reunited after 41 years when the woman discovered that he was her terminal cancer patient, the New York Post reports.

Officials say three terminals at the Los Angeles International Airport were briefly shut down after an airport contract worker left an exit from a secure area unattended.

Despite the smells of fried dough and roasted meat wafting from the Minnesota State Fair, Salim and Zuleyha Ozonder were focused on the people who were leaving, not the food or festivities becko...

Federal investigators said Friday that a suspicious fire that damaged construction equipment at the site of a future mosque in Tennessee was arson and offered a $20,000 reward for information le...

Authorities say flight controls on a small plane that crashed in a lagoon off San Francisco Bay, killing three people on board, were in the correct position.