wusa9.com - A parking deck collapse at Montgomery Mall left one person dead and another critically injured on Thursday. Officials expect a long investigation as they try to figure out exactly what happened. Thursday afternoon, the Cabin John Park Volunteer Fire Department tweeted out that its units responded to Westfield Montgomery Mall "for major structure collapse." Later, Montgomery County Fire officials said they got a call at 1:47 p.m. at the location at 7125 Democracy Blvd. They told us a key section of the parking deck collapsed and they were trying to rescue two adults.

Fox News - A school bus slammed into the back of another bus, setting off a chain-reaction crash involving four buses in northern Indiana, leaving dozens of middle and high students with non-serious injuries and one driver seriously injured. Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. Chad Hill said the bus driver was taken by helicopter to Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne. He said more than 100 students from Wawasee School Corp. were on the buses when the accident occurred about a mile north of North Webster, about 40 miles west of Fort Wayne.

fox4kc.com - A Kansas City pre-school is apologizing after a four-year-old boy was left inside a hot daycare van for more than six hours on Friday. The Children’s Place in Brookside says it is horrified by what happened and admits dropping the ball. Keshawn Harris, 4, was never removed from the van Friday morning when it arrived at the Children’s Place Preschool. His mother doesn’t understand how they could forget her son and her description of it is heartbreaking.

CNN - Five people remained in the hospital -- one in critical condition -- two days after a commuter train derailed and struck another train on one of the busiest tracks in the country, officials said Sunday. National Transportation Safety Board investigators looking at the accident, along the corridor from New York to New Haven, Connecticut, are focusing on a broken rail as a possible cause for Friday’s rush-hour collision.

CNN - A 1997 Cadillac plowed into a parade crowd in Virginia on Saturday, injuring dozens of spectators and leaving others pinned underneath the car. The accident injured up to 60 people, with 10 hospitalized, but none of the injuries appeared life-threatening, CNN affiliate WJHL reported. Rescuers lifted the car to free people trapped beneath it after the accident in Damascus, said Bill Nunly, the town’s police chief.

Insurance Journal - Police in Missoula, Mont. say a man who rammed his sport utility vehicle into an insurance office three times was apparently expressing his frustration with the insurance industry. Police say the driver rammed the building Tuesday and then twice backed up about 85 feet and rammed it again. Agency owner Danny Blowers says the driver broke through the building’s exterior, scattering drywall, siding and insulation. The SUV broke through the men’s and women’s bathrooms and broke water pipes, causing $85,000 to $100,000 in damage.

Reuters - Texas has joined the crowd of Gulf of Mexico states to file suit against BP Plc, Halliburton Co and others for their role in one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history. The complaint, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Beaumont, Texas, alleges that the companies and others "engaged in willful and wanton misconduct" for their role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The state has accused the firms - as well as Transocean, Anadarko and BP America in its suit - of violating Texas’ environmental regulations.

Reuters - A fractured segment of track has been found on the rail line of a Metro-North passenger train from New York that derailed in Connecticut and struck another commuter train, injuring more than 70 people, investigators said on Saturday. Authorities have ruled out foul play in Friday’s collision, which occurred during the evening rush hour between the towns of Bridgeport and Fairfield, about 50 miles northeast of New York City.

Insurance Journal - Dog bites accounted for more than one-third of all homeowners insurance liability claim dollars paid out in 2012, costing more than $489 million, according to the industry’s Insurance Information Institute (III) and insurer State Farm. While the number of claims fell by 1.4 percent in 2012—the first decline since 2010—the costs of settling dog bite claims continued to rise, by 1.2 percent, last year, according to an analysis of homeowners insurance data by the III.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - After the death of Lexa Cleland, there were many milestones. First came the arrest of the drunken driver who killed her in December 2010, then his sentencing 16 months later and, finally, this week, the $15.6 million settlement with the South Side restaurant that served him the alcohol. Mark and Nicole Cleland said Wednesday that they hoped the denouement of the legal battle with Hofbrauhaus would give them "a sense of an end of a chapter" in the death of their 7-year-old daughter.