Tag: Accidents
Postcard from Titanic’s radio operator being sold at auction
BOSTON — A postcard written by the Titanic's senior radio operator just weeks before the ocean liner sank in the North Atlantic in 1912...
Injured CSU Bakersfield athlete Readus’ condition improves
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — The condition of Cal State Bakersfield men’s basketball player Ronne Readus has improved nearly two weeks after he was badly injured...
Ex-Kansas City Chiefs coach charged with DUI after crash
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid was charged Monday with driving while intoxicated resulting in serious physical injury...
Soviet cosmonaut made pioneering spaceflight 60 years ago
<p>MOSCOW — Crushed into the pilot's seat by heavy G-forces, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin saw flames outside his spacecraft and prepared to die. His...
UN says 34 migrants drown off Djibouti after boat capsizes
<p>NAIROBI, Kenya — The International Organization for Migration says 34 migrants have died after their boat capsized off the Horn of Africa nation of...
Driver slowed or stopped before crash killed 13 migrants
<p>SAN DIEGO — The driver of an SUV packed with migrants stopped or slowed before getting slammed by a tractor-trailer in one of the...
Soviet cosmonaut made pioneering spaceflight 60 years ago
MOSCOW — Crushed into the pilot's seat by heavy G-forces, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin saw flames outside his spacecraft and prepared to die. His...
21 Chinese coal miners trapped by underground flood
<p>BEIJING — Rescuers on Sunday were trying to reach 21 coal miners who were trapped by an underground flood in China's northwest, a state...
Hit-and-run crash in Florida kills New York federal judge
<p>BOCA RATON, Fla. — A Florida woman who claimed she is Harry Potter fatally struck a federal judge visiting from New York and seriously...
Egypt prosecutors find gross negligence behind train crash
<p>CAIRO — Egyptian prosecutors said Sunday they found that gross negligence by railway employees was behind a deadly train crash that caused public outcry...