JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers are searching for 30 people reportedly missing after a ferry caught fire off Indonesia's main island of Java.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say more than two dozen people have been injured in a light rail train derailment in Northern California.

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have identified the driver of a car killed in a collision with a semitrailer south of North Platte.

Officials tell station KNOP that the crash happened...

NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say an elevator accident in a New York city high-rise has killed a man who was apparently pinned between the elevator car and the shaft.

LONGMEADOW, Mass. (AP) — Massachusetts State Police say two people suffered potentially life-threatening injuries in a crash involving a pickup and a mail delivery truck near the Connecticut...

STAMFORD, N.Y. (AP) — State police say a 62-year-old man has died after the propane truck he was driving crashed in upstate New York.

The accident happened Wednesday afternoon in the...

TITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A 13-year-old boy was accidentally shot in the torso by a 40-year-old man who was attempting to unload a handgun in a central Florida home.

FRANCONIA, N.H. (AP) — Authorities say a 4-year-old boy has been injured in an ATV accident in New Hampshire.

The Fish and Game Department says the boy, from Island Pond, Vermont, was riding...

BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) — Investigators say a Union Pacific worker has died after being pinned between two railway tanker cars in Southeast Texas.

NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire woman accused of leaving her 6-year-old stepson behind in a car crash after she fled from police said she thought there was a warrant out for her...

MONROE, La. (AP) — Louisiana State Police say a man has been arrested in the death of a bicyclist who was hit by a car in April, while riding at night in dark clothes and without lights.

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) — A Maryland police department has confirmed an on-duty officer struck and injured a pedestrian with a patrol car.

Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing did an internal review of the opening-lap crash at Pocono Raceway and absolved driver Takuma Sato of causing the accident.

BOSTON (AP) — The director of the state agency that stopped processing alerts from other states about Massachusetts drivers who had broken traffic laws has been fired.

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — Three men have died in highway accidents in western Montana.

The Montana Highway Patrol says a 77-year-old Hot Springs man died at 11:45 a.m. Monday when his...

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Two 12-year-old Reno children were injured, one critically, when they were struck by an SUV while walking to school.

Reno police said both victims, a boy and a girl, were...

BURLEY, Idaho (AP) — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined an Idaho tree-trimming company after an employee was killed and another was injured when the work platform of a...

RIVERTON, Wyo. (AP) — The body of an Illinois man has been recovered in Wyoming mountains by authorities after he died in a climbing accident.

LAFAYETTE TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a large weapons cache was found at a New Jersey man's home after he was involved in an auto accident last month.

POMPANO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A Florida bicyclist died after being struck by a high-speed train, at least the 15th person killed on that line this year.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Police say a man accidentally struck and killed his 5-month-old son as he drove into a driveway in Indianapolis.

Officer Genae Cook says the boy was in an infant seat...

MORRIS, Ill. (AP) — A Cook County sheriff's deputy helping a motorist on a northern Illinois street was killed when the stalled vehicle was struck by another vehicle.

BAILEY, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man faces felony charges after an all-terrain vehicle accident injured eight people Saturday night.

Lauderdale County Sheriff Billy Sollie tells The...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita police say two people who are suspected of drunken driving hit patrol cars in separate incidents during the weekend.

USHUAIA, Argentina (AP) — A Venezuelan man who lost his left leg in a traffic accident has walked to the bottom tip of South America, hoping to inspire his daughter and his compatriots to pursue...

ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. (AP) — A crash on an interstate highway in northern New Jersey has left a teenage girl dead and two other people injured.

LOWER SOUTHAMPTON, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a tree struck by lightning fell on a tent at a Pennsylvania swim club, injuring nine people.

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — At least 20 people have been killed in two separate motor accidents in Uganda, including an explosion involving a fuel tanker in the country's west, police said Monday, in...

LONG POND, Pa. (AP) — The black clouds that enveloped Pocono and officially brought the IndyCar race to a premature end didn't appear until the halfway point. But they've really been hanging over...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Former NFL running back Cedric Benson, one of the most prolific rushers in NCAA and University of Texas history, has died in a motorcycle accident in Texas. He was...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia police officer has been arrested for falsely reporting an abandoned car as stolen after a wreck.

Authorities tell the Ledger-Enquirer that 27-year-old Columbus...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Police in Kentucky say a 1-year-old boy has died after falling into a pool.

News outlets cite a Louisville police news release that said the toddler was found...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a man was killed while cutting down trees for firewood in central Pennsylvania.

State police in Centre County say the man was cutting trees in Penn...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana National Guard says one of its soldiers has died during training at Fort Hood, Texas.

It says 29-year-old Staff Sgt. Andrew Michael St. John of Greenwood died...

PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) — State police are investigating a highway onramp accident that killed a pedestrian in Pawtucket.

Troopers say 76-year-old Joao Daveiga, of Pawtucket, was struck while...

DAYTON, Nev. (AP) — A suspect has been arrested as a suspect in a hit-and-run accident that killed a 59-year-old Dayton man and five dogs he was walking when they were struck by a driver who fled...

RIVERTON, Wyo. (AP) — One person has died and another has been injured after both fell last weekend in a mountain climbing accident in western Wyoming.

BETHEL, Maine (AP) — In a story Aug. 15 about a drowning in Maine, The Associated Press misidentified the river in a headline. It was the Androscoggin River, not the Saco River.

ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. (AP) — Dale Earnhardt Jr. will take the weekend off from broadcasting to be with his wife and daughter after the three were in a plane crash landing Thursday near Bristol Motor...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A teenage deckhand, roused awake by water flooding his sleeping area aboard a fishing tender last summer in southwest Alaska, recalled taking a gulp of air as he cast about...

FLORISSANT, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say 4-year-old has been wounded in an accidental shooting in suburban St. Louis.

KSDK-TV reports that police say the child was in a Florissant home with a...

DAYTON, Nev. (AP) — The Nevada Highway Patrol is looking for a suspect in a deadly hit-and-run accident in Dayton that claimed the lives of a pedestrian and five dogs.

SOUTH LYON, Mich. (AP) — A suburban Detroit manufacturing facility has been fined after the death of an employee who fell into vat of sulfuric acid.

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A man charged with manslaughter in connection to an off-road vehicle crash that killed a 19-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to lesser charges.

PHENIX CITY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama high school's senior class president who was involved in a collision with a school bus has died.

News outlets report 17-year-old Christopher Rogers died...

MOSCOW (AP) — A deadly explosion at a naval weapons testing range in northwestern Russia. A brief spike in radiation levels. An evacuation order issued, then rescinded, for a nearby...

LONDON (AP) — Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala and his pilot were exposed to dangerous levels of carbon monoxide before their small plane crashed in the English Channel, killing them both,...

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the death of a Michigan man who was trapped under part of a water tank he was working to disassemble in western Pennsylvania.