COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Police say a criminal investigation into a 2016 helicopter crash off western Norway that killed all 13 people on board has been closed after a technical probe earlier this year ruled out human error.

The Airbus EC-225 helicopter was carrying workers from an ...

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Police in Glendale say one man is dead and another seriously injured after an all-terrain vehicle accident.

They say the two men were operating the ATV Monday afternoon when they lost control, rolled and left the roadway.

Police say one man was found dead at ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A Swiss tourist accused of accidentally flying a drone into a midtown Manhattan office tower has been arrested.

Police say Paolo Prosetti went back to the building Monday to try to retrieve the drone and pay for the damage — and found himself in custody after police were ...

TOWN OF BANGOR, Wis. (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a 68-year-old man who apparently drowned in a kayaking accident while duck hunting in western Wisconsin.

The La Crosse County Sheriff’s Office identifies the victim as Jim Schuster.

Authorities say Schuster and his ...

SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — A 17-year-old girl has died from injuries she suffered when she was hit be a vehicle last week in front of Reed High School in Sparks.

Sparks police confirmed Monday the pedestrian had died from the injuries suffered on Thursday. Her name has not been ...

ST. JOSEPH, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say a 10-year-old girl was accidentally shot in the head by her twin brother in Tennessee.

WAAY-TV and other news outlets report that it is unclear what condition she is in.

Lawrence County Sheriff John Myers ...

MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man who fled a crash of a vehicle into the Delaware River that claimed the life of his girlfriend earlier this year is now headed to state prison.

Jacob Garrett recently received a 15-year sentence. The 25-year-old Burlington City man had pleaded ...

BROOKFIELD, Conn. (AP) — State environmental police say one man has died in a boating accident in Connecticut.

The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection says officers responded to Candlewood Lake in Brookfield at about 12:30 p.m. Sunday for reports of a capsized 17-foot ...

HERMANN, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri State Highway Patrol says a 55-year-old woman died in a collision with a trolley on a tour of the state’s wine region.

Two other people in the woman’s vehicle and seven people on the trolley were injured in the crash Saturday near Hermann.

The patrol ...

KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a 32-year-old man was fatally injured when his sport-utility vehicle crashed on the east edge of Kearney in south-central Nebraska.

The crash occurred around 2:40 a.m. Saturday. The Buffalo County Sheriff’s Office says the driver was ejected when his ...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Florida police say a man driving recklessly and affected by alcohol headed the wrong way on an expressway in Tampa and hit and killed another driver.

The crash happened early Sunday morning.

The Tampa Bay Times

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Four American tourists and a Costa Rican guide were killed in a weekend rafting accident in the Central American country, authorities said Sunday.

Three rafts flipped on the Naranjo river Saturday around 3 p.m. and the five victims were carried away downstream, ...

DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas police officer has been critically hurt after investigators say he was hit by an SUV while placing flares on a highway following an unrelated traffic accident.

The officer was struck shortly before dawn Sunday along westbound Interstate 20. The officer was ...

SHOEMAKERSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say an eastern Pennsylvania man and woman died after their vehicle struck a car stopped at a light.

The Reading Eagle reports that state police in ...

ROTTERDAM, N.Y. (AP) — Police have found the body of a man who apparently fell into the water and drowned while fishing in New York’s Mohawk River.

A New York state police helicopter team located the body of 55-year-old Kevin Straut in the Mohawk River near Rotterdam at 1 p.m. ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina authorities are investigating a collision that involved a school bus carrying 35 people, including the driver.

The Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol says it happened about 1:20 p.m. Friday on US-25 in Greenwood County, about 4 miles (6 ...

FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin high school football team opted to go forward with its playoff game hours after the death of a teammate — and honored him with more than a victory.

St. Mary’s Springs Academy of Fond du Lac scored 62 points. That was the jersey number worn by junior ...

NEW SALEM, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts state trooper was recovering Saturday in a state hospital from multiple stab wounds following a multi-state pursuit of a driver involved in a New Hampshire crash.

Police said that driver, an 18-year-old New Hampshire man, was shot during the incident ...

ASHTABULA, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say four people inside a car struck by a pickup truck that failed to stop at an intersection have died in northeast Ohio.

The accident occurred late Friday in Ashtabula. The State Highway Patrol has identified the victims as 18-year-old Giovanni Miller, ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Police are investigating a fatal hit-and-run and searching for a motorist.

A Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department statement issued Saturday says Eric Ryan Elsea was hit by a car that failed to stop at the scene.

His body was found in a roadway in the Hickory ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s government says at least 27 people, including small children, have been killed in a multi-vehicle accident in Limpopo province.

The statement by President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office says a minibus, truck and delivery vehicle crashed on Friday on a major ...

ELLENSBURG, Wash. (AP) — Two Central Washington University students have died in what police say was an accidental shooting followed by a suicide.

Ellensburg Police spokesman Capt. Dan Hansberry said Friday that officers responded at about 8:50 p.m. Thursday to a report of two gunshot ...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say an employee of a tree service company died after falling about 60 feet in Kansas City, Kansas.

The Kansas City Star reports the accident occurred Friday when the boom bucket ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — A Congress party leader says at least 50 people are dead after they were run over by a train in northern India.

Pratap Singh Bajwa says the victims were watching fireworks during a religious festival on Friday. They crowded the rail track on the outskirts of Amritsar, a ...

HOLTON, Kan. (AP) — A man was killed and another lost an arm when a mobile crane overturned at a roofing job site in northeast Kansas.

Jackson County Sheriff Tim Morse says the men were in a lift basket 30 feet (9 meters) from the ground Wednesday afternoon when the crane toppled over in ...

BASALT, Colo. (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped all charges against a driver who hit a drunk pedestrian in western Colorado.

Christopher Fish of Aspen had been charged with vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of a fatal accident in the death of 54-year-old Michael Campion in Basalt in ...

ROANOKE, Va. (AP) — A spokesman for a Virginia clinic says the two huskies that fell off the sixth floor of a parking garage and were euthanized were “victims of an accident.”

The Roanoke Times

MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) — A driver charged in the hit-and-run death of a 6-year-old girl in western Michigan has entered a plea in the case.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico court ruling says a worker is entitled to compensation for a trip-and-fall injury suffered at work even though the accident wasn’t linked to any particularly risky circumstances related to his job.

The state Court of Appeals’

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Police say a 10-year-old girl accidentally shot and wounded a 12-year-old boy inside a house in Milwaukee.

The shooting happened about 8:30 a.m. Thursday in the home on the city’s north side. Police say the boy suffered a non-life threatening injury and was taken to the ...

JOHNSTOWN, Colo. (AP) — A northern Colorado man has died in an accident at a manufacturer of doors and wood plank flooring in Johnstown.

Weld County officials say a piece of wood thrown from a machine at Sun Mountain Custom Doors struck 54-year-old Steven Verle Deniston in the chest on ...

GOSHEN, Ind. (AP) — A northern Indiana couple has pleaded guilty in a hit-and-run crash that killed two children and an adult.

Elkhart County prosecutors say 43-year-old Leonard Grosswiler of Elkhart pleaded guilty Thursday to leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death, ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia regulators say a coal mine employee has died in a machinery accident.

The Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training says 33-year-old Roger W. Herndon of Rainelle was struck in the side by a piece of steel auger drill. The accident occurred ...

NEW ULM, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say one man was killed and another critically injured in separate farm accidents in south-central Minnesota.

The Brown County Sheriff’s Office says authorities were called Wednesday afternoon to a farm accident near New Ulm. Authorities say family members ...

LODI, Calif. (AP) — Officials say a Colorado woman was killed in a weekend skydiving accident in Central California.

The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office says 62-year-old Nina Lowry Mason of Dillon, Colorado, died Sunday when her parachute failed to open at the Lodi Parachute Center ...

SEATTLE (AP) — The lead attorney for over 40 victims of a deadly crash in Seattle involving a duck boat said during opening statements of a civil lawsuit that the crash was not an unforeseeable accident.

The Seattle Times

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A 10-year-veteran sheriff’s detective who fled a hit-and-run and then elaborately staged a fake crime scene involving his unmarked car has been sentenced to 11 months’ probation.

The Florida Times-Union

OSMOND, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say three students were injured when a semitrailer ran into the rear of their school bus in northeast Nebraska.

The accident occurred around 3 p.m. Tuesday after the bus stopped at a railroad crossing on U.S. Highway 20 near Osmond. The Nebraska State Patrol ...