1 dead, 3 injured after cement truck wreck

A 41-year-old woman died and a five-year-old child has been hospitalized in critical condition, after what is being described as a 'freak accident' happened in Dallas, Texas earlier today."Dallas police say a cement truck vaulted a center barrier and landed on the...

San Diego - Pipe-bomb Story Updated -Man pleads not guilty to I-5 pipe bomb c...

Updated 11/8/2007 By: TERI FIGUEROA - Staff WriterSource: NC TIMES VISTA -- An Oceanside ex-convict who police say left two pipe bombs near Interstate 5 pleaded not guilty Tuesday to nine felony counts tied mostly to homemade bombs.The incident caused...

At Least 2 Dead, 10 Injured After Massive Tunnel Fire on California Freeway

"SANTA CLARITA, Calif. — Two bodies were pulled out of a Southern California freeway tunnel early Saturday morning after a 15-truck pile-up caused a massive fire, blocking a key link between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Fire Inspector Jason Hurd said the accident — the...

Massive floods cripple southern England.

A low pressure system swept accross the UK yesterday (Friday) bringing torrential rain and cut road and rail links over vast swathes of the country. Reading and Didcot railway stations were closed and many streets in London and the surrounding area have been innundated by...

Driver Critical After Toxic Load Overturns

" June 8, 2007 North Carolina - The driver of a tractor-trailer carrying a toxic chemical that overturned on Interstate 85 Wednesday evening, shutting down the southbound lanes for most of the evening, remained in critical but stable condition at Duke Hospital, police said....

A proper farewell for Francys Arsentiev

On May 2, I reported on the story of Ian Woodall's intentions to give final resting peace to Francys Arsentiev, a Colorado climber and mother who perished on Mount Everest in 1998 with her husband Sergei. A touching article came out today in The Rocky Mountain News detailing...

CTA shooting kills teen

"A young man who boarded a CTA bus in Chicago's Roseland neighborhood opened fire Thursday afternoon, killing one student and injuring four others, officials said. The man got on an eastbound 103rd Street bus at Halsted Street and pulled a gun as the bus neared Lowe Avenue...

Heavy Rain Slowing Bay Area Roads: Flooding, Crashes & Traffic Jams

"In San Francisco, the Great Highway is currently shut down from Lincoln Way to Sloat Boulevard, said Department of Public Works spokeswoman Christine Falvey, and will most likely be closed in the northbound direction as well if it keeps raining. There is also flooding on...

Sniper shootings kill 1 on Ind. interstate (AP)

" SEYMOUR, Ind. - A sniper shot at two pickup trucks along Interstate 65 in southern Indiana early Sunday, killing one person and injuring another, state police said. The sniper shot at a southbound truck about 12:20 a.m., killing one of its three occupants, police said....