A Gulfstream G100 carrying six people was flying from Bermuda to Boston when it lost contact near the Massachusetts island. A search for survivors has ended.
The man was trapped under a boulder that the police said likely weighed a “literal ton” and could not reach his phone. He used Apple’s Siri to call 911, his mother said.
At least three people died after the vessel sank in the Mona Passage, a dangerous stretch of sea often traveled by migrants from Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
A 15-year-old whose mother identified him as Derek Parker Aghnaanga was pulled to safety from the overturned hull of his skiff on Monday by the crew of a fishing vessel.
Welles Remy Crowther, an equity trader and volunteer firefighter, is credited with saving 18 people at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 before being killed.
Paige Crowther Charbonneau, left, and Alison Crowther accepted a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Trump on behalf of their brother and son, Welles Remy Crowther.
The city’s Fire Department said it received a call just after 4 a.m. on Wednesday reporting that a person was stuck in the vehicle after it collected trash from a dumpster.
Racing against the darkness, rescuers in California on Saturday saved a man who had become stranded on a ledge perched atop a soaring peak on the Sierra Nevada.
The Cessna aircraft was carrying two pilots, two U.S. Army engineers and four contractors to Cape Newenham from Anchorage when it crashed near a U.S. military site, investigators said.
A Cessna 441 had taken off from Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport and was headed to Cape Newenham, in Western Alaska, when it crashed around 11:45 a.m. Thursday, officials said.
The tidal bore that rockets up the Turnagain Arm south of Anchorage can carry a surfer for an hour; it can also kill. Now that the secret is out, how long will authorities allow surfers to catch the wave?
The man had been traveling the Continental Divide Trail, which goes through five states and is described by a hiking group as one of the “most challenging landscapes in North America.”
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