A U.S. military helicopter crashed at an American base on the southern island of Okinawa, Japanese and U.S. officials said Monday.

A skydiving instructor on a tandem jump in Mississippi died after his parachute failed to open.

There have been dozens of attacks on trainers by orcas in marine parks around the world. These are not bad whales; they just come with all the instincts of predators.

Flying shrapnel from a power plant demolition injured spectators who were gathered to watch the buildings go down on Saturday in Bakersfield, California. According to the Bakersfield Californian, several bystanders were hurt, including a 43-year-old man who could lose both his legs.

A 35-year-old woman on a first date plummeted to her death early Thursday morning when she fell from the balcony of her 17th floor New York City apartment.

At least eight people - four of them critically - were injured after several large propane tanks exploded late Monday night at a gas plant in Tavares, Fla., sending "humongous" flames and smoke into the sky, according to officials.

A helicopter crash in a rugged, wooded area of northeastern Pennsylvania claimed the lives of five people, including one child, officials said Sunday. The crash happened Saturday night after the pilot told air traffic controllers he was losing altitude, according to the county coroner.

A coach has "ripped through a guard rail" and plunged off a flyover in southern Italy leaving at least 38 people dead.

A bus trip back to an Indianapolis church ended in tragedy Saturday afternoon with bloodied bodies, luggage strewn everywhere and three dead, in addition to at least 19 injured, after the vehicle flipped over.

Wild weather has already taken an $85 billion toll on the world so far in 2013. Believe it or not, that's actually a pretty typical sum for the first six months of the year.

New video has surfaced from inside the Southwest 737 airplane the moment the nose gear collapsed on landing into LaGuardia Airport Monday.

A high-speed passenger train derailed as it hurtled around a curve in northwestern Spain on Wednesday, killing nearly 60 people and injuring more than 100.

Asiana Airlines Flight 214 passenger Ye Mengyan died of injuries she received from being run over by a vehicle, and she was alive when she was hit, coroner said.

The 16-year-old girl who was run over by a vehicle after the crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 was alive when she was hit, two sources close to the investigation into her death told The Chronicle on Thursday night. San Mateo County coroner's investigators determined that Ye Meng Yuan died of blunt force trauma as a result of being hit by a vehicle, said the sources, who spoke on condition they not be identified because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the case...

At least 22 children have died after eating eating free school lunches in Bihar state in northeastern India

The long-term plan for rehabilitating damaged resources has yet to be implemented a full quarter century after the Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spewing more than 11 million gallons of crude oil into the surrounding ecosystem.

Power outages. Disrupted communications. Diverted airplanes. How business is coping with big risks from outer space.

At least seven people were killed and tens of others were injured Friday when a train derailed in Bretigny sur Orge, the French interior minister says.

Natural-gas extraction, geothermal-energy production and other activities that inject fluid underground have caused numerous earthquakes in the United States, scientists report today.

The stunning news has been spreading through the city of Greenville, South Carolina, shaking residents in a way they hadn't felt in recent memory.