Prosecutors say human error by a train controller was to blame for a crash in Bavaria, Germany, last week that killed 11 people.

A private helicopter with five people on board crashed Thursday into Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, leaving a teenage passenger in critical condition, officials said. The Bell 206 aircraft made a hard landing and sank near the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center, a popular…

Five people were on board the helicopter.

Police are searching for one person who remains missing after a small plane crashed in the Long Island Sound, less than a mile off the New York shoreline. Authorities say the Piper PA-28 went down around 11 p.m. Saturday, landing in Port Jefferson Harbor…

A pair of window washers were trapped on their rig more than 60 stories up outside a high-rise hotel in midtown Manhattan for more than an hour Tuesday afternoon, fire officials said.

A methane gas leak at a coal mine in Russia's far north triggered three explosions that ignited a raging fire and partially collapsed the mine, killing 36 people, officials said Sunday. The dead included five rescue workers and a mine worker who were killed…

A horse with the New York Police Department's mounted unit galloped through Times Square after being spooked by a loud noise and throwing an officer from its back. It happened during the late evening rush hour Wednesday on 48th Street near Broadway. Police…

The Latest on a series of powerful storms moving across the West Coast after a dry spell (all times local): 6:30 p.m. Authorities say a Northern California woman died after being trapped in a car that was submerged in floodwater. KCRA-TV reports the woman…

At least 14 people have been injured after a train derailment in Niles Canyon in Northern California, according to ACE Train, which operates a commuter service between Stockton and San Jose.
Nine people were transported to the hospital, five of them with…

Russian emergency officials say that an explosion of natural gas in a Moscow apartment building has left one person dead and injured 13 others. Thursday's explosion hit an apartment on the 8th floor of a 14-storey building in eastern Moscow and a fire has…

A tugboat crashed into a barge on the Hudson River north of New York City early Saturday, killing one crew member and leaving two missing and presumed dead. The 90-foot tugboat named Specialist hit a barge around 5:20 a.m. near where the new Tappan Zee Bridge…

A truck used to deliver feed to a business where cattle are fattened hit a train track and shifted it at least a foot before an Amtrak train derailed in southwest Kansas and injured at least 32 people, an investigator said Tuesday. National Transportation…

Authorities say an Amtrak train struck a piece of construction equipment just south of Philadelphia, and some injuries are being reported. Service on the Northeast Corridor between New York and Philadelphia has been suspended. Amtrak said Train 89 was heading…