A man plunged 30 feet through a rusted-out metal plate on a New York City sidewalk as he stepped outside an Off-Track Betting Parlor to smoke a cigar.
A friend says a 9-year-old New York City boy might have been imitating a video game character when he apparently made a plastic parachute and jumped to his death from his apartment building's roof.
The 30-year-old man had been shoved 180 feet down through a thundering curtain of water with a force greater than gravity and now bobbed in the frigid water below Niagara Falls.
A man pulled over on a highway bridge, took his 4-year-old daughter out of the car and dropped her over the side to her death Thursday in Australia's second-largest city, police said.
The Lobster Dip was launched 21 years ago as Maine's first happening where people could raise money for a good cause by stripping down in the freezing winter air and running half-naked into the bone-chilling ocean.
Police in Indiana say five deer that wandered onto a highway overpass have jumped to their deaths on Interstate 69, one of them crashing through a tractor-trailer's windshield.
A faulty computer unit likely caused a Qantas jetliner to experience two terrifying midair plunges within minutes last week, an Australian investigator said Tuesday.
Russian stock markets fell sharply on Tuesday, weighed down by concerns over oil profits following a continuing slide in prices for crude and reports that the Kremlin might not support tax cuts for the industry.
Bolivian police say a truck plunge high in the Andes killed 21 people and left 53 injured.
Police say a 5-year-old New York City boy plunged 10 stories to his death after he jumped from an elevator that got stuck between floors with its doors open.
A tourist is nursing only cuts and bruises after sliding 250 feet down a cliff on California's coast.
A truck packed with revelers traveling to a wedding plunged off a bridge in southern India on Thursday, killing at least 39 people and trapping others in the submerged vehicle, police said.
A bus collided with a van and plunged off a road into a river in central China, killing at least 13 people and injuring 10, a state news agency said Saturday.
A man died after falling several stories in a Hollywood shopping mall while apparently attempting to slide down the banister of an escalator, authorities said.
A trucker hauling a load of Volkswagen cars drove his cab and several cars into San Diego Bay after blacking out at a marine terminal, authorities said.
A horse was rescued after accidentally taking an icy plunge in a swimming pool. Jet, a 6-year-old quarterhorse, walked onto the frozen in-ground pool Thursday and broke through six inches of ice into about 3 1/2 feet of water, becoming trapped.
The families of two police officers who died when they drove off an open drawbridge have settled negligence lawsuits against the state for nearly $2.4 million, a lawyer and a state official said Tuesday.
The realization that weakness in the U.S. housing and credit markets is spreading — and affecting companies and markets abroad — sent Wall Street skidding sharply lower once more.
An architect accused of helping his wife commit suicide by stepping aside as she drove the family minivan off a 300-foot cliff with their two daughters inside has pleaded not guilty.