NTSB: PILOT’S TEXTING CONTRIBUTED TO COPTER CRASH
By JOAN LOWY This photo provided by the National Transportation Safety Board, shows the wreckage of a helicopter that crashed near Mosby, Mo., on Aug. 26, 2011. The pilot of…
Accidents and disasters
EGYPT’S CHRISTIAN POPE BLASTS ISLAMIST PRESIDENT
By HAMZA HENDAWI FILE – In this Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013 file photo, Egypt’s Coptic Christian Pope, Tawadros II speaks to The Associated Press in the province of Assiut, Egypt.…
RADIOACTIVE WATER LEAK FEARED AT JAPAN NUKE PLANT
By MARI YAMAGUCHI FILE – This March 11, 2012 file photo shows storage tanks for radiation-contaminated water in the compound of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma,…
FAA FUNDED AIRPORT TOWERS USING 30-YEAR-OLD DATA
By JOAN LOWY FILE – Transportation Secretary Raymond LaHood, left, listens as Federal Aviation Administrator Michael Huerta, right, speaks during a news conference in this Jan. 11, 2013 file photo…
PRINCIPAL: KIDS ‘OK’ AFTER SCHOOL BUS OVERTURNS
Emergency personnel respond at the scene where a school bus overturned that was carrying about two dozen elementary school children, Friday, April 5, 2013, in Wadsworh, Ill. Lake County Sheriff’s…
10 SERIOUSLY HURT AFTER CAR HITS VEGAS RESTAURANT
By KEN RITTER Las Vegas firefighters examine the scene of an accident where a car crashed into a crowded restaurant, Monday, April 1, 2013, in Las Vegas. Ten people were…
4 HURT IN CRASH, ATTACK AT CALIFORNIA WAL-MART
Police cars maintain a perimeter around a San Jose, Calif., Walmart after a motorist drove through a store entrance and began assaulting shoppers on Sunday, March 31, 2013. Four people…
MOM OF BOY KILLED BY ALA. AIRPORT SIGN UNCONSCIOUS
By KATHY WINGARD A flight information sign at the newly renovated Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport in Birmingham, Ala., fell on a mother and her three children Friday afternoon, March 22, 2013,…