Authorities say a 4-year-old Michigan boy has died after falling from the same second-story window his brother fell from several years ago.
Alcohol was found on the power boat that plowed into a tug boat and barge in north Florida, killing five people and injuring nine others, investigators said Tuesday.
Two children were among five people killed Sunday just outside Atlanta in a multi-car crash that sent a sixth person to the hospital in critical condition, police said.
Gunmen in dark clothes kicked down an apartment door in a troubled New Orleans-area neighborhood and opened fire, killing two children and a woman, authorities said.
Gunmen in dark clothes kicked down the door of a New Orleans-area apartment early Saturday and opened fire, killing two children and a woman, authorities said.
The Philadelphia Fire Department says an extension cord running under a sofa is to blame for a fire that killed three people, including an 8-year-old girl.
Fire officials say two women and a young girl have died as a result of a fast-moving row house fire that broke out just after midnight in North Philadelphia.
An off-duty suburban St. Louis police officer might have been drinking before a crash early Saturday that killed four people, investigators said.
A fire at a mobile home killed four young children before dawn Saturday, but two adult relatives escaped through a window with a baby before running to neighbors for help, screaming, "My kids are burning!"
A failing electric water heater exploded at a plastics manufacturing plant, killing two people and injuring two others, officials said Friday.
Prosecutors charged a man Friday with vehicular manslaughter in the death of a mixed martial arts promoter killed when his red Ferrari was sheared in half in a collision.
A twice-fired nursing supervisor accused of a Valentine's Day rampage that left four people dead in upstate New York was indicted on murder charges in two of the slayings Friday.
West Virginia is preparing to add coal barge inspections to its oversight of the mining industry after the drowning death of a miner who fell overboard late last year, the state's top mine safety official said Wednesday.
Investigators have found evidence that a bird may have struck a helicopter before it crashed into a Louisiana swamp last month, killing eight people, the National Transportation Safety Board said Monday.
A fire deemed suspicious engulfed two apartments Thursday, killing a woman and three of her children, police said. Eight people jumped out of second-floor windows and survived.
A man was charged with murder after two people were shot dead outside a hospital and a couple were killed in their home hours later, authorities said.
A fire ripped through a wooden apartment building in southern Russia early Sunday, killing 16 people, emergency officials said.
Former major leaguer Jim Leyritz was arrested and jailed Friday after a judge revoked his bond for violating his pretrial release on a DUI manslaughter charge, authorities said.
Authorities have arrested 12 people in a tainted teething formula case in Nigeria that killed 84 children after they swallowed a syrup laced with a chemical normally found in antifreeze, health officials said Wednesday.
A voice recorder captured a "loud noise" in the cockpit of a helicopter shortly before it plunged into a Louisiana swamp last month, killing eight people, federal investigators said in a report released Thursday.
A 15-year-old driver, his younger brother and a young neighborhood friend were killed when they fled at speeds up to 90 mph and then crashed into a house after a police car pulled them over.
The wife of a pilot who died with seven others in a Jan. 4 helicopter crash in Louisiana is suing the manufacturer of the aircraft.
Two firefighters died Sunday after falling from the roof of an eight-story building during training in east Texas.
Authorities say a 3-year-old girl has died after being attacked by her neighbor's Rottweiler in Fort Worth, Texas.
Fire officials say a father rescued three of his children from their burning house in the Philippine capital, then went back for his remaining son and died with the 12-year-old in his arms.
OAKLAND PARK, Fla. -- A South Florida man whose home was sliced in two by a small plane says his nephew left the home on NW 1st Avenue (see map) only shortly before the crash.
A Chandler high school student involved in a love triangle with his 48-year-old math teacher was stabbed to death after the older woman's 20-year-old boyfriend found them together in her bedroom, police said Tuesday.
The parents of a 3-year-old boy who was shot and killed Sunday may face charges in connection with his death, said Medina County Sheriff Randy Brown.
-- Police and EMS personnel responded last week to a report of a 1-year-old boy suffering from an allergic reaction
South Miami Commissioner Jay Beckman was found shot to death inside his home Sunday morning, said police. Investigators said that when officers arrived at the home at 6520 SW 65th St. they found Beckman dead. Officers said he was shot by his 17-year-old son.
Tim Eves was 'jogging' on the spot using the games console at home when he slumped to the floor.
Los Angeles Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart was among three people killed in a crash in Fullerton, California, early Thursday, according to a hospital spokesman.
A woman accused of hitting a pregnant woman with her car has turned herself in. According to police, the women were arguing right before the hit-and-run on 102nd Street and Towne Avenue in Los Angeles at about 10:30 a.m. on Sunday.
Neighbors left cards and bouquets of flowers Sunday at the mobile home where five children ages 7 to 16 were slain, apparently by their father, who also took his own life. Authorities had not yet determined what might have driven James Harrison to slaughter his family.
A three-year-old child has died in a fire in the Oceanway community of North Jacksonville. First Coast News has learned the little girl had been left home alone accidentally. The child's mother and grandmother were both out, and each thought the other had the child.
A school field trip turned into a horrifying incident for a group of elementary school children Friday after a deckhand choked to death while trying to amuse the students.
Truth is stranger than fiction, and in Egypt it's even stranger than crazy Japanese horror-fiction. The Egyptian Health and Interior ministries have apparently announced that text messages can't kill people.
A pregnant woman was struck and killed and another woman was seriously injured on Friday afternoon when a Gristede's van mounted a sidewalk along East 37th Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenues, just a few minutes after 5 p.m., the authorities said.
There were no smoke detectors in an illegal basement apartment where a father, an infant and a 1-year-old child were killed early Wednesday, fire officials said.
The Florida Department of Children & Families says it did nothing to contribute to the March 13 death of Zachary Johnson, a Lakeland toddler shaken and dropped while in the temporary care of his aunt and uncle.
State Safety Department spokeswoman Laura McPherson told The Daily News Journal that 32-year-old Jeremy Ferguson took his 5-year-old daughter and 18-month-old son with him to check on their cattle.
The death toll from last weekend's shootings of Oakland police officers rose to four early Tuesday when Officer John Hege was taken off life support, according to the Alameda County Coroner's Office.
5 people, including 2 toddlers, survived a fire above a Tampa restaurant that did claim the life of another woman. Firefighters arrived at Pot Bellie's Family Restaurant, located at 3826 South Himes Avenue, around 1:20 this morning.
- Boulder residents are being warned about the dangers of opium tea after police learned that a University of Colorado student died from an overdose.
A convenience store gasoline pump caught fire and exploded Tuesday, killing a woman and injuring at least one other person, police said.
The Sauk County Sheriff's Department said that a 1-year-old child has died after being pinned under an overturned Amish buggy Wednesday.
The Miami-Dade County Health Department said Thursday that a third child with an infection is improving after two babies died at Miami Children's Hospital.
An argument over a Coke ended in deadly shooting Friday. For the third time in less than three weeks, Palm Bay detectives are investigating a homicide involving a claim of self-defense.
- Police said a Fitchburg High School student who was found dead in the woods on Saturday could have been rescued if his friend had cooperated with police officers searching for him.
David Wilcox has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and assault in connection with the fatal 2005 Avon Mountain crash.