Transportation Accidents

A man accused of robbing local businesses for cartons of cigarettes led police on a chase Tuesday before crashing a stolen pickup truck into a tree, the Orange County Sheriff's Office said. Deputies and Orlando police believe Vernon Jeffrey Williams, 47,...

— Traffic was heavy again Tuesday morning as commuters endured one more day without rail service from Bridgeport into New York. At least one backup plan — commuters boarding buses to get to a train — was working, albeit slowly. There...

A 50-year-old Reading man on his way home after working the third shift died from injuries suffered in an accident with a truck on Route 222 in Berks County Tuesday morning, according to investigators. Leon C. Gibbs Jr. was driving south on Route 222...

Orlando police are investigating what caused a vehicle operated by a St. Cloud driver to leave the roadway, hitting and killing a woman who was walking along Semoran Boulevard early Monday. Guadalupe Melgoza, 69, was walking near the intersection of Yew...

Erected back when drunk driving was the primary cause of fatal traffic accidents, the death toll sign in front of the Bel Air Barrack of the Maryland State Police met its demise and there's talk of replacing it with something with something a bit more...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - A series of bomb and gun attacks across Iraq killed more than 40 people on Tuesday, a day after over 70 died in violence targeting majority Shi'ites that has stoked fears of all-out sectarian war with minority Sunnis. Nearly 300...

Video that may have provided details about what happened when a Broward County bus crashed into a massive power pole and its driver was ejected through the windshield will not be recovered, according to a county official. "The technician was unsuccessful...

VANDALIA, Ill. A crash that killed five men and injured six near here Monday was another in a series of one-vehicle rollovers that have prompted repeated warnings about 15-passenger vans for years. Fayette County Coroner Bruce Bowen said the vehicles...

A 17-year-old girl hit by a pickup truck Monday morning at the intersection of Fairview Avenue and West Main Street remained hospitalized Tuesday. The girl, whose identity was not released by police, continued to be listed in serious, or “guarded,&...

By Marty Graham SAN DIEGO, May 21 (Reuters) - The family of a San Diego woman killed in an encounter with the U.S. Border Patrol filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit on Tuesday alleging a plainclothes agent used excessive force when he opened fire on...

LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - British singer George Michael remains in hospital under observation for head injuries, five days after a car accident, his publicist said on Tuesday. "I can confirm that George remains in hospital but purely as a standard...

PIERCETON -- Kosciusko County police say a Warsaw man died after he crashed his mo-ped and was run over by an SUV Sunday night. Sheriff's deputies and medics were called shortly after 10 p.m. to the 5000 block of Pierceton Road, just west of Pierceton....