Four people were killed, including a 3-month-old baby, in an extra-alarm fire early Tuesday in the South Chicago neighborhood. The fire started around 1:40 a.m. in a three-story apartment building in the 8100 block of South Essex Avenue.

Officials say no one was injured when a train hauling coal derailed in rural North Texas, sending some cars into a creek.
Union Pacific spokesman Jeff DeGraff says 26 cars derailed off the end of a southbound train around 6:30 p.m. Sunday in the city of Roanoke, about 30 miles north of Fort Worth.

Two NJ Transit buses collided in a "T-bone" crash Friday in New Jersey, killing two people and injuring 17 others. Shortly after 6 a.m. Friday, a NJ Transit bus - the 59 line to Westfield - collided with the 13 bus that was traveling from Irvington to Belleville, according to the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office.

Heavy downpours, lightning and strong winds caused power outages and damage to homes and buildings throughout the D.C. area Wednesday night.

It was like the scene out of a movie, an out of control bus slams into cars, houses, a church and a dumpster before coming to rest on a porch, with it all unfolding in real life in Lebanon late Wednesday night.

Toyota is recalling 337,000 cars and SUVs for the third time for the same problem, except this time dealers will use a different repair procedure on the vehicles. The 2006-2011 Toyota RAV4 and 2010 Lexus HS 250h vehicles were first recalled in 2012 after a federal investigation into rear suspension arm assembly failures on both the left and right sides.

Can a name be destiny? In the case of DeRailed, a bar at 1130 N. Grand Ave., it appears so. A Canadian Pacific railroad car tipped over on the adjacent tracks early Tuesday and crushed a corner of the metal storage shed at the back of the bar.

Thirty residents were taken to the hospital and up to seven more were unaccounted for early Thursday after an explosion ripped through an apartment building in Silver Spring, Maryland, officials said.

A federal jury found California’s largest utility guilty on Tuesday of misleading investigators about how it was identifying high-risk pipelines after a deadly pipeline explosion in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Crews in Franklin worked to clean up after several cars on a CSX train derailed at International Paper in Isle of Wight on Tuesday. No one was injured.

A bad house guest ransacked his Airbnb lodgings during the month of July, making off with more than $5,000 in property, police said.

Thirteen people required hospitalization after a motor home slammed into the back of a bus that was turning into a wilderness lodge near Alaska’s Wrangell-St. Elias National Park.

Fire swept through the Newport City Center Motel early Friday morning, killing 4 people, injuring at least 3 others and displacing 50 people.

A semitrailer carrying hazardous material crashed on Interstate 90 in central Washington state, killing the driver, sending fumes into the air and causing some residences to be temporarily evacuated.

Right now, rescue crews are on the scene of a civilian helicopter crash in Iberia Parish. According to Sheriff Louis Ackal, the crash happened in the Atchafalaya Basin in the Iberia Parish panhandle. Ackal says at least one person is in the water.