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WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - Retired race car driver Richard "Dick" Trickle died on Thursday from an a...
DALLAS (Reuters) - At least six people were killed and scores more injured when tornadoes ripped through a stretch of Texas n...
MIAMI (Reuters) - The U.S. National Weather Service is getting a quantum jump in computing power that will significantly impr...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top transportation safety agency voted on Tuesday to recommend a lower blood alcohol limit for dri...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Boeing Co. said it was confident that a piece of aircraft, found wedged between two buildings in lower M...
WEST, Texas (Reuters) - An explosion tore through a fertilizer plant and leveled dozens of homes in a small Texas town late o...
(Reuters) - At least 14 people were injured during a mass stabbing at a local community college in the northwest Houston area...
(Reuters) - Airlines should charge obese passengers more, a Norwegian economist has suggested, arguing that "pay as you ...
Bosses behind Johnny Depp's new movie "The Lone Ranger" have been fined by California's health and safety w...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Australian supermodel Miranda Kerr is in fine health despite a traffic accident, a spokeswoman for th...
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - A major winter storm moved into the U.S. Midwest on Thursday, blanketing states from Minnes...
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - A fire triggered by a natural gas explosion engulfed a restaurant in Kansas City, Missouri,...
CHELYABINSK, Russia (Reuters) - More than 500 people were injured when a meteorite shot across the sky and exploded over cent...
BEALLSVILLE, Ohio (Reuters) - Leon Lieser has been a coal miner 49 years, his bent fingers testament to his first job, loadin...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Space shuttle Columbia's flying days came to an abrupt and tragic end on February 1, ...
TAKAMATSU, Japan (Reuters) - U.S. and Japanese aviation safety officials wrapped up their initial investigation of a badly da...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's two leading airlines grounded their fleets of Boeing 787s on Wednesday after one of the Dreamli...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A powerful winter storm forced the cancellation of about 200 U.S. flights on Thursday, snarling holida...
MOBILE, Alabama (Reuters) - A major winter storm system swept through the southern United States on Tuesday, spawning tornado...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two upstate New York volunteer firefighters were shot and killed and three others were wounded on Monday...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera died in a plane crash after the small jet she was travelling in ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Despite searing daytime temperatures, Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, has ice and...
PARIS (Reuters) - French actor Gerard Depardieu was detained for driving his scooter while drunk on Thursday after he had a m...
(Reuters) - New York state and New Jersey need at least $71.3 billion to recover from the devastation wrought by Supersto...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama consoled grieving victims of Superstorm Sandy on the ground and surveyed disaster...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - From New York City's Staten Island to the popular beach towns of the Jersey Shore, rescuers and offi...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama was to resume campaigning on Thursday after a pause caused by the U.S. east coast...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Millions of people across the U.S. Northeast stricken by massive storm Sandy will attempt to resume norm...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Millions of people were left reeling in the aftermath of monster storm Sandy on Tuesday as New York City...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Sandy, the monster storm bearing down on the East Coast, strengthened on Monday after hundreds...
HAVANA (Reuters) - Hurricane Sandy swelled into a serious threat to much of the U.S. East Coast on Thursday after hammering C...
(Reuters) - An Austrian daredevil called off his death-defying skydive from a balloon 23 miles over the New Mexico desert on ...
Lindsay Lohan and Amanda Bynes have been offered a course of free driving lessons after they both suffered high-profile traff...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Actress Lindsay Lohan was arrested on Wednesday for leaving the scene of an accident after she struck a ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Memorial ceremonies marking the anniversary of the September 11 attacks began Tuesday under clear blue s...
By Ronnie CohenSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yosemite National Park doubled the scope of its hantavirus warning on Thursday to so...
Actress Kristin Chenoweth suffered a fractured skull in her on-set accident while filming The Good Wife in June.The star was ...
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Tropical storm Isaac is expected to weaken further as it heads north on Thursday, after causing signi...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yosemite National Park is warning 1,700 people that they may have been exposed to a potentially dea...
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Hurricane Isaac lashed southern Louisiana with high winds and heavy rains on Wednesday and was set fo...
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Isaac strengthened into a hurricane just off the U.S. Gulf Coast on Tuesday as it chur...
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Isaac had nearly reached hurricane strength as it bore down on the U.S. Gulf Coast on ...
MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Isaac swirled into the Gulf of Mexico on Monday, threatening to disrupt U.S. offshore oil an...
Joseph Gordon-Levitt has his quick reflexes to thank for minimizing his injuries when he collided with a taxi cab while filmi...
DETROIT (Reuters) - Three devices made to alert drivers to children left behind in a car seat were unreliable on their own, c...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Watching news coverage of the September 11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina disaster, and the O.J. Simpson ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Holy crash landing Batman! The crime-fighting caped crusader could fly but if he did, he would smash into ...
What's cuter than a kitten drinking out of a bottle? THREE kittens drinking out ofbottles!
If you think YOUR weather has been bad, check out what the good people of Richmond, VAhave to deal with!
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Blistering heat blanketed much of the eastern United States for the third straight day on Sunday, afte...
See what happens when a garbage box full of food waste is thrown into a volcano.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A remote Aleutian volcano that has been restless for the past year rumbled to life on Tuesday, ...
The next time you find yourself witnessing a flash mob you may think twice about whatsgoing on.
By Leslie SnadowskyNEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A jury ruled on Thursday in favor of actor Kevin Costner in a lawsuit in which fel...
U.S. Commerce Secretary John Bryson is under investigation for hit-and-run crashes with two cars near his California home ove...
U.S. Secretary of Commerce John Bryson is being investigated for several hit-and-run car crashes in Southern California on Sa...
Actress Lindsay Lohan escaped injury in a major car crash on Friday after her Porsche collided with an dump truck on a Southe...
(Reuters) - Actors Kevin Costner and Stephen Baldwin opened a real-life legal drama on Monday as jury selection began in a tr...
A stuntwoman left brain damaged and partially paralysed following an accident on the set of "Transformers: Dark of the M...
The driver of this Lamborghini Gallardoleaves a different kind of impressionwhen a failed attempt at racing ends in a Chicago...
You haven't seen a flash mob like this before. Unsuspecting passengers in the Copenhagen Metro were treated to a surprise...
(Reuters) - Most young American drivers agree that it is dangerous to text while driving, but nearly a third admit they do it...
Actress Amanda Bynes suffered another driving mishap on Friday after a minor car accident.The "Hairspray" star was ...
ATLANTA (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Saturday it now spends as much effort and resources on surv...
NASA's space shuttle Discovery took a ride on a Boeing 747, traveling from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to theWash...
By Reza MunawirBANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) - An 8.7 magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia on Wednesday, sending resid...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - All residents of an apartment complex for the elderly in Virginia that was destroyed when a U.S. Navy ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Navy F-18 fighter crashed shortly after take-off into an apartment building in Virginia Beach, ...
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - U.S. authorities filed criminal charges on Wednesday against a JetBlue Airways pilot who witnesses ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop star Whitney Houston died of accidental drowning due to the effects of cocaine use and heart dise...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A major earthquake struck Mexico on Tuesday, unleashing panic as it damaged hundreds of buildings and...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Part of the National Mall near the Washington Monument may be sinking at a faster rate than expected, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A first round of tests showed no evidence that water at 11 homes in a small town in Pennsylvania near ...
BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Two Slovak children were suspected of burning down a large gothic castle in eastern Slovakia when thei...
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Powerful storms that spawned tornadoes ripped through the U.S. Midwest on Wednesday, killing...
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Four people were killed in two separate avalanches near Washington state ski resorts on Sunday, but eight...
GIGLIO, Italy (Reuters) - The wreck of the cruise ship Costa Concordia could remain where it lies near the Italian island of ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The strongest geomagnetic storm in more than six years was forecast to hit Earth's magnetic field ...
GIGLIO, Italy (Reuters) - Divers searching the capsized Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia suspended work on Wednesday afte...
GIGLIO, Italy (Reuters) - Italian coastguards pleaded angrily with the captain of a stricken super-liner to return to his shi...
GIGLIO, Italy (Reuters) - Divers found the bodies of two elderly men inside a capsized cruiseliner on Sunday, bringing the kn...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most U.S. motorists surveyed acknowledged few situations in which they would not use a cell phone or t...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A remote volcano in Alaska's Aleutian Islands erupted violently early on Thursday, spouting an ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Increased risk of having a car crash attributed to cellphone use may have been overestimated in s...
By Shamik PaulKOLKATA, India (Reuters) - A fire ripped through a seven-storey hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata ...
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il died of a heart attack, state media reported on Monday, sparking concern ov...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. aviation safety official resigned on Tuesday over a drunken driving charge.Randy Babbitt ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. aviation safety official, Randy Babbitt, left his job temporarily on Monday following a d...
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Oklahoma State University women's basketball coach Kurt Budke and assistant coach Miranda Serna die...
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - More than 6,000 mourners gathered on Monday in Oklahoma to remember the head coach of the Oklahoma ...
KOROLYOV, Russia (Reuters) - Three astronauts blasted off on Monday to return a full crew to the International Space Station ...
HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Plc's U.S. subsidiary has agreed to pay $50 million in civil penalties to the state of Texas for p...
CONWAY, Mass (Reuters) - About 1 million people remained without power in the Northeast on Wednesday after an uncommonly robu...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - One stuntman was killed and another one seriously injured in an explosion the set of action film &quo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Electric Co. is recalling a gas rangetop because of an explosion hazard, the Consumer Product ...
(Reuters) - IndyCar officials have begun an investigation into the cause of the 15-car crash that killed two-time Indianapoli...
(Reuters) - Harley-Davidson Inc said it would recall about 308,474 motorcycles in the United States and overseas due to probl...
ERCIS, Turkey (Reuters) - Rescuers clawed through rubble on Monday to free people trapped by an earthquake that killed at lea...
Johnny Depp almost wrecked his good looks long before he made it as a Hollywood hunk after he set himself alight during a pra...
(Reuters) - The motor racing world was left reeling on Monday from the death of two-times Indianapolis 500 champion Dan Wheld...
TOKYO (Reuters) - It's not quite a yellow submarine, since it's destined for travel on top of the water, not under it.But the...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - One person died and four others were injured when a helicopter crashed into New York City's East River o...
DALLAS (Reuters) - A large fire at a chemical plant south of Dallas that sent an enormous plume of smoke into the air on Mond...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Cases of illness in the U.S. listeria outbreak linked to tainted cantaloupes -- already the deadliest in ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A listeria outbreak linked to cantaloupes from Colorado has infected 72 people in the United States and k...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate approved a deal on Monday to avert a government shutdown, ending a standoff that highlighte...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A six-ton NASA science satellite crashed to Earth on Saturday, leaving a mystery about wh...
(Reuters) - Investigators probing last week's deadly crash of a World War Two-era plane at a Nevada air race are looking at t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the House of Representatives regrouped Friday to approve a must-pass spending bill, but...
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - An 11th person has been confirmed as killed in last week's crash of a World War Two-era plane near the ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The carelessness of a "lightly" drunken navigator contributed to a plane crash that killed 47 pe...
RENO, Nev (Reuters) - A 10th person has died as a result of injuries sustained after a World War II-era fighter crashed near ...
RENO, Nevada (Reuters) - Federal investigators trying to determine why a World War II-era fighter crashed at a Nevada air rac...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-led Senate on Thursday sent the House of Representatives a measure to fund disaster aid...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. offshore drilling regulator could issue sanctions as early as next week against BP and the ma...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The results of a pivotal federal U.S. probe of last year's massive BP oil spill could be released as e...
PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - Family members witnessed the burial on Monday of unidentified human remains recovered at the crash sit...
DETROIT (Reuters) - Three airline passengers questioned after their "suspicious activity" prompted a military fight...
SHANKSVILLE, Pa (Reuters) - Thousands gathered Sunday at the site where hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 crashed as the nat...
YAROSLAVL, Russia (Reuters) - Candles flickered beside mounds of red carnations at the stadium of one of Russia's top ice hoc...
BASTROP, Texas (Reuters) - Firefighters gained ground for the first time on Wednesday against a deadly wildfire raging near A...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Blizzards. Tornadoes. Floods. Record heat and drought, followed by wildfires.The first eight months of 20...
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Two people have died in a monstrous wildfire that raged out of control near Austin on Tuesday and h...
MIAMI (Reuters) - Hurricane Katia powered up to a major Category 4 storm on Monday, but was expected to veer away from the U....
MOBILE, Ala (Reuters) - Gulf Coast residents from Texas to Florida struggled with a third day of severe weather on Monday wit...
SAN ANTONIO/AUSTIN (Reuters) - Sixty separate wildfires, whipped by winds as Tropical Storm Lee passed, burned across parched...
MOBILE, Ala (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Lee spawned tornado sightings and alerts from the Louisiana Gulf Coast to the Florida ...
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - After testing New Orleans' flood defenses over the weekend, Tropical Storm Lee moved northeast on Mon...
PATERSON, New Jersey (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Sunday urged Republicans not to play politics with federal disaste...
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A wildfire burned for a third day in a wooded 18-square-mile area of Oklahoma's capital on Thursday...
LUDLOW, Vermont (Reuters) - Residents of several Northeast states approached the Labor Day holiday weekend mired in mud and s...
MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Katia strengthened into a hurricane over the Atlantic on Wednesday, while another mass of th...
PATERSON, N.J./BRATTLEBORO, Vermont (Reuters) - Floodwaters finally started to recede from areas of the U.S. northeast devast...
PATERSON, New Jersey (Reuters) - Emergency workers plucked dozens of residents from doorways and windows as Hurricane Irene's...
Funnyman Darrell Hammond is launching a lawsuit over a car crash which has left him injured and unable to carry out his stage...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington's never-ending budget battle threatened to snarl the recovery from Hurricane Irene as a top...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Vermont and New Jersey struggled with their worst flooding in decades on Monday, a day after Hurricane I...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City was slowly getting back to business as usual on Monday after Hurricane Irene but hundreds ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Irene could cost U.S. state and local governments billions of dollars in damages, but funds fr...
MOREHEAD CITY, North Carolina (Reuters) - Hurricane Irene charged up the U.S. eastern seaboard on Saturday as a weakening but...
MOREHEAD CITY, North Carolina (Reuters) - Hurricane Irene howled ashore in North Carolina with heavy winds, rain and surf on ...
OMAHA, Neb (Reuters) - An Amtrak train carrying an estimated 178 passengers struck a crane in southwest Nebraska on Friday, p...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. airlines have cut at least 1,000 flights and are moving airplanes out of the anticipated path of Hu...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Disasters at a coal mine in West Virginia and aboard an oil rig operated by British Petroleum in the G...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Yorkers living in low-lying areas should think about moving out on Friday before Hurricane Irene hit...
WILMINGTON, North Carolina (Reuters) - The United States urged 55 million people on its East Coast on Friday to prepare for t...
NASSAU (Reuters) - The northeast seaboard, including the capital and financial center New York, rushed to prepare on Thursday...
(Reuters) - Hurricane and tropical storm watches were issued for a portion of the U.S. East Coast early Thursday as Hurricane...
NASSAU (Reuters) - Powerful Hurricane Irene battered the Bahamas on Wednesday on a track to the North Carolina coast that for...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The earthquake that shook much of the East Coast cracked one of the stones at the top of the Washingto...
NASSAU (Reuters) - Hurricane Irene looked set to become a major storm on Wednesday as it roared up from the Caribbean on a pa...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A strong earthquake rattled the East Coast on Tuesday, sending tremors as far as Canada, damaging well...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Irene, threatening to become the first hurricane to hit the United States in three years, coul...
SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - Hurricane Irene was expected to strengthen over the next few days and could hit the southeastern Un...
LONDON (Reuters) - British Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet was among the guests who escaped unhurt from a fire which swept...
DETROIT (Reuters) - A wingwalker at an air show near Detroit plunged about 200 feet to his death on Sunday as he tried to cli...
PHOENIX (Reuters) - A billowing wall of dust engulfed downtown Phoenix on Thursday, cutting visibility to a few hundred yards...
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - A band of showers has offered some relief to parched areas from Kansas to Mississippi, but ...
PARIS (Reuters) - French actor Gerard Depardieu outraged fellow passengers by urinating in the aisle of an Air France flight ...
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - The historic Texas drought that has parched most of the state throughout the summer has caused $5...
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - A fifth person has died from the collapse of an outdoor concert stage in heavy wind just before a we...
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - A fifth person has died from the collapse of an outdoor concert stage in heavy wind just before a we...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Miranda Cosgrove, the 18-year-old star of Nickelodeon's "iCarly" TV show, broke her ankle w...
SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - China's second-biggest train maker will recall 54 bullet trains used on the new showcase Beijing...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will set up a new nuclear safety watchdog under the auspices of the Environment Ministry, it said on ...
KABUL (Reuters) - Late last Friday night, special forces troops from the NATO-led coalition launched an operation to capture ...
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The Southeast and southern Plains broiled under more record-breaking heat on Monday while heavy rai...
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Libyan state media said on Tuesday dozens of civilians had been killed in a NATO strike on a village abou...
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla (Reuters) - More extreme weather was expected across the country on Sunday, as parts of the Midwest and N...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Emily broke apart over the mountains of Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Thursda...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is on a pace in 2011 to set a record for the cost of weather-related disasters and t...
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