The Coast Guard and crew members of surrounding vessels were responding to a pre-dawn fire on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana, authorities said Thursday morning.

Police said speed, icy roads and driver inexperience may have caused a tractor-trailer to plow into a house on Route 4 on Tuesday evening.

New York City authorities say more than 100 people suffered minor injuries when a Long Island Rail Road train hit a bumping block at a Brooklyn station.

A trio of Midtown burglars waited for the stroke of midnight to pull off a $6 million New Year’s Eve heist, law enforcement sources said Monday.

Ten people are permanently displaced after a fire destroyed an apartment building Monday in Virginia, Minnesota. Virginia Fire Chief Allen Lewis said Tuesday morning the fire was extinguished around 9 p.m. Monday. The building is a total loss, he said, but some possessions may be salvageable.

The driver of a box truck that overturned on Interstate Highway 680 in Danville early this morning has died, according to the California Highway Patrol.

A 63-year-old construction worker on Interstate 4 was fatally struck by a piece of steel Monday afternoon in Altamonte Springs, officials say. The worker was a subcontract employee for SGL Constructors, the lead contractor on the interstate’s multibillion-dollar I-4 Ultimate makeover.

Virginia State Police continue to investigate the multi-vehicle crash Saturday in the northbound lanes of Interstate 495 at the 50 mile marker. The chain-reaction crash occurred around 5:12 a.m., Saturday (Dec. 17), just as road conditions became slick and treacherous, police said.

Two people are dead and dozens are injured after a pileup early Saturday morning on Interstate 95 in Baltimore, and a third person was killed in a separate crash.

A semitrailer truck carrying mail caught fire Tuesday morning on Interstate 94 near Hudson, forcing eastbound traffic to be re-routed off the highway for four and a half hours.

Eau Claire County agreed to a $1 million settlement with its insurance company Tuesday to recoup most of the money embezzled by two former employees.

More than 260 people have been sickened by a Thanksgiving dinner at a popular Greece restaurant and party house, which is quite likely the largest recent outbreak of foodborne illness in Monroe County.

Activists who have demonstrated for months against the Dakota Access Pipeline may have some fuel to justify their protests.
A spill has occurred 150 miles from Cannon Ball, North Dakota, where protesters have fought construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Hundreds of residents in Rutherford County have been evacuated after a semi crash involving hazardous chemicals.

Police said they are hunting fields and towns in southeast France for four thieves who stole dozens of kilograms of gold Monday from an armored truck before setting cars ablaze near a major highway.