SNOWSTORM TAKES AIM AT PLAINS, MIDWEST
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH JC Hobbs directs his wife Sarah as they help to pull a van and U-Haul up a hill outside Calhan, Colo. as a storm continued to bring…
Accidents and disasters
MORTAR EXPLOSION IN NEV. KILLS 7 NC UNIT MARINES
By SCOTT SONNER and TED BRIDIS FILE – This May 20, 2005 file photo shows storage bunkers at the U.S. Army Depot in Hawthorne, Nev. Seven Marines from a North…
INFLUENCE GAME: CONGRESS QUIET ON DREAMLINER WOES
By JOAN LOWY FILE – In this Jan. 7, 2013, file photo, a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 jet aircraft is surrounded by emergency vehicles while parked at a terminal E…
POWER PARTIALLY RESTORED AT NUCLEAR PLANT IN JAPAN
By MARI YAMAGUCHI FILE – This May 7, 2011 file image from video footage released by Tokyo Electric Power Co., shows spent fuel storage pool of the Unit 4 reactor…
EX-OKLAHOMA QB KILLED IN PLANE CRASH IN INDIANA
By TOM COYNE and JEFF LATZKE The front end of a Hawker Beachcraft Premier jet sits in a room of a home on Iowa Street in South Bend, Ind., Sunday,…
13 DEAD, DOZENS HURT IN MEXICO FIREWORKS EXPLOSION
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Soldiers guard the area as forensic workers gather evidence after a truck loaded with fireworks exploded during a religious procession in the…
PA. COLLEGE LACROSSE TEAM’S BUS CRASHES, KILLING 1
Emergency and rescue crews respond to the scene of a tour bus crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Saturday, March 16, 2013 near Carlisle, Pa. Authorities say the tour bus…
4 KILLED IN UPSTATE NY; POLICE SEARCH VILLAGE
By MICHAEL HILL and JOHN KEKIS Law enforcement officers run for cover along Main Street in Herkimer, N.Y., when shots were fired while they were searching for a suspect in…