Several box cars have derailed and are engulfed in flames following a collision between two freight trains in the Texas Panhandle. Texas Department of Public Safety Lt. Bryan Witt says the accident occurred Tuesday morning near the town of Panhandle, about 25 miles northeast of Amarillo.
A fine day of fishing from the Lady Frances ended abruptly at about 11 a.m. Monday when the 100-foot excursion boat out of Galilee and a 70-foot yacht out of Newport collided on Block Island Sound.
At least six children have been crushed to death by toppling Ikea chests, prompting the voluntary recall of about 29 million chests and dressers sold by the popular retailer, the Consumer Product Safety Commission says.
Lightning is being blamed for sparking a house fire in Woolmarket early Monday morning that left a a family of three scrambling to escape with their lives. The fire was so intense, it could be felt and heard hundreds of feet away.
An explosion at a natural gas production plant sent flames high into the sky late Monday night. According to Jackson County Emergency Services Director Earl Etheridge, the explosion happened around 11:30 p.m. at the Enterprise plant in Pascagoula.
Shonda Benton climbed into bed and was ready to relax early Monday morning when a knock on her front door ensured the single mother wouldn’t get any sleep. In her Pinehurst Street driveway, inches away from her home’s exterior, flames were spreading on top of the 2016 Nissan Versa she purchased in November.
What someone took from an Albuquerque home has a neighborhood baffled. It couldn’t have been easy, but someone swiped an entire roof right off of a house.
Some view it as a source of jobs, energy, and foreign independence; others view it purely as a menace. Whichever side you are on, fracking is percolating through contemporary media and culture as its use explodes across the globe.
A city bus smashed into a firetruck in Queens on Sunday afternoon, seriously injuring two firefighters and 12 civilians, including children, according to witnesses and officials.
A fire at a Tupelo factory that makes lawn tractor wheels may have caused millions in damage. Local media report no one was injured by the fire at Custom Engineered Wheels, which broke out late Thursday.
At least one person was killed Sunday evening when a car slammed into a taco stand in Boyle Heights. The age and gender of the victim was not released. It was also unclear if the victim was the driver or a pedestrian.
West Virginia’s three most devastated counties and possibly others will receive federal assistance after the state’s worst flooding in more than a century killed at least 24 people, officials said on Saturday.
A raging central California wildfire that has already killed two people and destroyed 200 structures was still burning Sunday, and "additional fatalities are possible," authorities said.
