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Two dancers for the popular boy band were hospitalized, a local news outlet reported. Hong Kong officials promised an investigation. The Hong Kong authorities will investigate why a large, heavy [...]

The death of a mentally ill veteran in an overheated cell at Rikers Island this year was accidental, the New York City medical examiner's office ruled on Friday in a [...]

Investigators say the fatal shooting of a South Florida girl on a school bus on Tuesday appears to have been an accident. A 15-year-old boy was in juvenile detention on [...]

A five-story shopping center built earlier this year in a bustling suburb of Accra, Ghana's capital, collapsed Wednesday, killing at least one person and leaving several dozen people trapped in [...]

The United States attorney for South Dakota said Tuesday that prosecutors would re-examine the circumstances surrounding dozens of deaths that occurred on or near the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, many [...]

In the wake of Dan Wheldon's death at a race in Las Vegas last Sunday, IndyCar officials have been all but silent. No formal statements, beyond an expression of regret [...]

GREENLAWN, N.Y. (AP) -- A baby sitter was found unconscious and lying on top of a 1-month-old boy on a couch, and both died, the police said Friday. The Suffolk [...]

A manufacturer of decorative firepots and pourable fuel gel that were involved in two horrific accidents in New York asked retailers on Monday to stop selling its products nationwide. The [...]

The coroner of British Columbia has ruled that the death of a Georgian luge athlete in a training run before the Vancouver Games was accidental, but he called on the [...]

A young man jumped from the balcony at the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, N.Y., on Wednesday night and plunged 25 feet to the seats below, the New [...]

Search-and-rescue teams combed the waters of Manila Bay on Thursday for at least 27 people missing after a passenger ferry collided with a fishing boat, the coast guard said. At […]

A 36-year-old man surfing off Rockaway Beach in Queens died on Thursday after getting caught in pounding surf churned up by a passing tropical storm, the authorities said. A Fire […]

In the mid-19th century, the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote, 'I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth, I knew not where.' The mystery facing the police […]

Eight miners and an elevator operator died when an elevator in a mine about 31 miles west of Johannesburg plunged almost 200 feet to the bottom of the shaft. Andrew […]

Three New Jersey men who died after becoming trapped in a sunken ship while scuba-diving off the coast of Key Largo, Fla., were carrying spools of line to find their […]

He was a fixture in the busy lobby of a Garment District building, the sort of man whose smile prompted workers to stop on their way to the elevators, smile […]

The giant helium balloon that crashed into a light pole in Times Square during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade last year injuring two people was traveling in an area significantly […]

A Brooklyn woman was struck and killed by a bus yesterday near her home in East Flatbush, the authorities said. The victim, Anna Dymburt, 79, a Holocaust survivor, was crossing […]

A 65-year-old Brooklyn man was killed on Friday night when a garbage truck crossed over the double yellow line on a busy thoroughfare and collided with his car, the police […]

A severely disabled 9-year-old boy who died after becoming trapped in a laundry chute at an East Harlem health care center suffocated, city officials said yesterday, and his death has […]

A 44-year-old man on a moped was killed when he was struck from behind by a hit-and-run driver near his home, the police said. The man, Cesar Lorenzana, was heading […]

The retired detective came into the Queens deli every day, always buying his Lotto tickets and two packs of Parliament cigarettes, employees said. The former detective, John R. Malik, 60, […]

A 3-year-old boy who plunged to his death on Friday night may have been left alone in his family's sixth-floor apartment, an official of the city's child welfare agency said […]

A Queens woman was killed yesterday after the ambulance that was carrying her and her husband was struck head-on by a 2003 Honda S.U.V. in Queens, the police said. The […]

The day after two workers were severely burned in an explosion on the campus of the Pfizer Corporation here, neighbors were told that another explosion was looming and asked to […]

New Hampshire International Speedway in Concord is investigating its second fatal crash in two months, and one critic said yesterday that Nascar should consider suspending races there. The driver Kenny […]

With broken bits of prayer they begged God to save them as the smoke thickened and the orange glow beneath their door brightened. The three young women, cowering against their […]

It was human error, not mechanical problems, that caused two rear cars of a Metro-North train to separate earlier this month, a spokesman for the commuter railroad said. The incident […]