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SF Gate
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Frightened Boy Scouts huddled in a shelter as a tornado tore through their western Iowa campground, killing four people and injuring 48 others who had little to no warning of the approaching twister.
Tornadoes also touched down in Kansas, Minnesota and..
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CNN
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Virginians faced a massive cleanup project Tuesday after at least three tornadoes damaged dozens of homes and injured more than 200 people. At least 200 were injured Monday in Suffolk, where a twister destroyed several homes and businesses, said Bob Spiel..
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USA Today
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A cave-in killed three miners and injured six other men who were tunneling through a coal mine Thursday evening trying to reach six miners trapped for 11 days, mining officials said.
"There was a major mountain bump," said Tammy Kikuchi, spokeswoman fo..
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USA Today
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A bus crash on Saturday injured 19 people, at least one critically, authorities said.
A New York City Transit bus and a car collided shortly before 6 a.m. in Queens, said Jeremy Soffin, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Fift..
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Reuters
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Two Secret Service officers were injured on Tuesday after a gun held by another Secret Service officer accidentally fired inside the White House gate, according to a spokesman, Darrin Blackford.
Their injuries are non-life threatening, the spokesman sa..
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Yahoo News
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For a moment, the man in the grainy video looks like a good Samaritan holding the door open for an elderly neighbor. Then he turns and delivers three sharp punches to the 101-year-old woman's head.
"The next thing I knew, I had a big bang on the side o..
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CNN
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At least six people were killed when a charter bus carrying a college baseball team fell from an overpass onto Interstate 75 early Friday in Atlanta, police said.
Dozens also were injured in the crash just north of downtown, Atlanta Fire Department spo..
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SF Gate
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Oakland police were investigating two shootings, one of them fatal, that occurred within minutes of one another in different parts of the city.
At about 6 p.m., a young man was shot and injured at the corner of Whitney and 59th Streets in a drive-by at..
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USA Today
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A tornado destroyed a small trailer court, uprooted trees and damaged homes and businesses here, including a nursing home and grain elevator, officials and witnesses said. One man was killed and at least 17 people were injured.
"This town is a mess. Th..
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BBC News
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One person has been killed and at least 20 others injured when a steam pipe exploded underneath a street in central New York during the evening rush hour.
The explosion in midtown Manhattan sent clouds of steam, mud and rocks into the air and forced th..
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CNN
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One person died and 26 were injured after a steam pipe burst in midtown Manhattan Wednesday, causing a transformer to explode and sending thick plumes of steam and ash into the air near Grand Central Terminal, New York officials said. The New York Fire De..
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Washington Post
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The Woman Charged With Driving Through A Crowded Southeast Washington Festival This Weekend Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier said yesterday, citing witnesses and the woman's statement to police.
The driver, whom police identified as 30-year-old Tonya Bell..
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SF Gate
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One man is dead and a woman is injured after shots were fired at a car that subsequently crashed and rolled over in the 1300 block of Funston Avenue at around 1:55 a.m., according to a San Francisco police dispatcher.
The dispatcher said police are sti..
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MSNBC
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Suburban Chicago officials have renamed a street after an Army sergeant who lost both legs and one arm in Iraq...
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