A leak on a big rig that ran on natural gas led to a fire that caused more than $2 million in damage and losses at a truck maintenance facility in southwest Wichita on Monday, fire officials said.

A group of Southern California homeowners charge that the rupture of a water main during last week’s mudslide released as much as 10 million gallons of water into the community of Montecito, overwhelming a flood control system already deluged with heavy rains.

Multiple students were injured after a semi-truck crashed into a school classroom Tuesday morning in southern Minnesota, with authorities still investigating just how and why the incident occurred.

A young dancer left partially paralyzed when a shelter at O’Hare International Airport collapsed on her has received a record $115 million settlement from Chicago and its insurer, her attorney announced Tuesday.

Two people were killed in a crash involving 20 vehicles, including three semi-trailers, Monday night. The crash happened on I-25 near Romeroville where roads were icy due to freezing temperatures in the area.

A lawsuit has been filed against BMW alleging several of the company’s makes and models were designed with defective panoramic sunroofs and moonroofs that are prone to shattering.

Spring, in the form of France’s traditional seasonal spike in high-profile jewel thefts, arrived a little early at cocktail hour in Paris’ recently-renovated Ritz hotel last night, as at least five axe-and-pistol-slinging robbers mounted a blitzkrieg raid on the storied hotel. . . .

A Canadian subcontractor tapped to help build a train station in downtown Miami has filed a lawsuit, claiming it is owed millions for additional unpaid work. The lawsuit, filed in Miami-Dade Circuit Court, alleges breach of contract by Suffolk and negligence claims against Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and All Aboard Florida.

A crash involving multiple semis closed I-65 near Seymour for several hours on Thursday as crews worked to clean up a chemical spill that later caught fire.

Two people were injured, one seriously, in an early-morning fire near the top of Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan, the New York Fire Department said on Monday.

Flooding from a water main break forced the temporary suspension of some flights at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday, adding to the misery of travelers after a winter storm canceled or delayed hundreds of flights in recent days.

At least one person was killed and another seriously injured in a multi-car pileup involving more than two dozen vehicles on the New York State Thruway near Buffalo, authorities said.

At least 12 people were hurt on Tuesday as a fire tore through an apartment building in the Bronx, just days after another blaze in the New York City borough killed 12 people, a New York City Fire Department spokesman said.

One girl died and several other people were injured late Sunday night in a crash involving a Greyhound bus in Emery County.
According to the Utah Highway Patrol, a bus traveling from Denver to Las Vegas had just undergone a driver shift change in Green River when it veered off of I-70 near mile marker 113 around 11 p.m.

Firefighters from a dozen departments responded to a fire at a complex in Urbandale on Monday. A massive fire broke out at the Plumwood Terrace Condominiums at approximately 3:30 p.m.