MIDDLESBORO, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky man is accused of crashing his truck into a radio tower and silencing the local station before fleeing the scene.

News outlets report Joshua Lee was arrested Monday night on charges including criminal mischief, failure to report a traffic accident and ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Agriculture groups and Nebraska state officials have created new guidelines for taking care of livestock on trucks that are pulled off the road due to an accident or a failed safety inspection.

The new procedures announced Monday are designed to ensure that animals ...

CHASKA, Minn. (AP) — A medical examiner says two missing teenage cousins whose bodies were pulled from a pond in Chaska died of accidental drowning.

The Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office on Monday identified the victims as Bushra Abdi and Zeynab Abdalla, both 19.

Family members and ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chilean authorities say two young Americans and a Chilean who went missing over the weekend have been found dead in a river estuary, the apparent victims of accidental drowning.

Divers on Monday recovered the bodies of 23-year-old Rose Simonsen Franke and 25-year-old ...

LINDEN, N.J. (AP) — An off-duty police officer has been killed in a crash on Route 1 in Linden.

The crash occurred in the northbound lanes at about 2:15 a.m. Monday when the officer’s car collided with a tractor-trailer.

Another person in the car suffered serious injuries and was ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say an Iowa man was killed, another was injured and another was suspected of driving drunk in causing a collision on the north side of Omaha.

The accident occurred around 7:30 p.m. Saturday on Nebraska Highway 36 near Glenn Cunningham Lake. Police say an ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A crash involving two motorcycles and three other vehicles on Interstate 85 in South Carolina killed two people — the driver of one motorcycle and a passenger on another.

ADMIRALTY ISLAND, Alaska (AP) — Federal investigators closed their investigation into a decade-old fatal plane crash mystery on an Alaska island, concluding the pilot accidentally flew into a mountain.

The National Transportation Safety Board last week issued its final report in the 2008 ...

HOBBS, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico State Police say two men have been killed after a rollover accident west of Hobbs.

They say the crash occurred around 7 a.m. Saturday and 29-year-old Andrew Beatty of Carlsbad, New Mexico, and 31-year-old Alan Knight of Rexburg, Idaho, were declared dead at ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A tractor-trailer driver is facing charges following a crash in Pennsylvania that killed three people, including a toddler, and injured seven others, state police said

Police in Dauphin County said vehicles on Interstate 83 in Lower Paxton Township had slowed or ...

ALVIN, Texas (AP) — Authorities say a 2-year-old girl was fatally mauled by her family’s dog in their Houston-area home.

The Brazoria County Sheriff’s Office says deputies went to a home in Alvin on Friday afternoon after getting a 911 call.

At the home, located about 30 miles south ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A 48-year-old Kansas City man accused of being involved in a hit-and-run crash has pleaded guilty to illegally possessing a firearm that was found in his car when he crashed during a police chase.

James C. Coleman pleaded guilty Friday to being a felon in possession ...

CROYDON, Pa. (AP) — A quiver of anger crept into James Fonde’s voice as he surveyed the bleak, littered patch of woods where his mother’s life ended, an overlooked corner of Croydon between Route 13 and a residential neighborhood.

“She wasn’t supposed to die back here,” he said. “I hate it ...

LAKE ELMO, Minn. (AP) — Rowan Malmberg was biking to her boyfriend’s house one morning this summer when she thought she could dash across Lake Elmo Avenue and beat a semitractor-trailer that was headed north.

She couldn’t.

The truck driver slammed on his brakes before he dragged ...

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — Johnson County prosecutors have charged a 45-year-old Olathe man with leaving the scene of a crash that killed two young men in Overland Park.

Bradley Woodworth is charged with leaving the scene of a fatality accident. His bond is set at $100,000.

Woodworth is ...

CLIFTON, Maine (AP) — Maine State Police are looking for the driver of a truck after it crashed and sparked a power outage.

Trooper Joshua Lander told WABI-TV that the ...

BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — The city of Burlington and the Iowa Criminal Investigation Division broke a state law by refusing to turn over all records after investigating a city police officer’s accidental fatal shooting of a woman, a judge said.

Administrative Law Judge Karen Doland said in a ...

BARNSTABLE, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts woman has been sent to jail for a year in connection with a hit-and-run that killed a 62-year-old man.

The Cape Cod Times reports that ...

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee sheriff’s deputy says a man working to spread gravel at a farm near Greeneville was run over by his own truck and killed.

Green County Sheriff’s Deputy Billy Walters

ELWOOD, N.Y. (AP) — A woman whose daughter survived a limousine accident that killed four women on Long Island in 2015 says Saturday’s deadly crash in rural upstate New York is a reminder that strict legislation is still needed for stretch vehicles.

After the 2015 crash, a special grand ...

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Officials with the New Hampshire Fish and Game on Thursday defended shooting dead two bears that were running to a busy roadway, saying they posed a danger to motorists.

New Hampshire Fish and Game Executive Director Glenn Normandeau said a biologist shot the bears ...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Overland Park police have arrested a suspect in a hit-and-run collision that killed two students.

The Kansas City Star reports the 45-year-old Olathe man was arrested Thursday and ...

HAWTHORNE, Nev. (AP) — The Nevada Highway Patrol has identified a 78-year-old woman from Washington state who was killed in a single rollover crash on U.S. Highway 95 in the high desert about 140 miles (225 kilometers) southeast of Reno.

The patrol says Edna Mae Hammack of Black Diamond, ...

BENKELMAN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a man was struck and killed while walking along a highway in southwest Nebraska.

The accident occurred around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, about 3 miles (5 kilometers) northeast of Benkelman.

Authorities say a pickup truck hit 46-year-old Douglass Singer ...

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — Police say a contractor who fell while working on the roof of a Connecticut warehouse has died.

Capt. Tom Barcello told the Stamford Advocate the 59-year-old man fell about 30 feet through a skylight on the Stamford building Wednesday and died at the hospital later ...

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Police in Glendale say a suspect in a fatal hit-and-run involving a van and a bicyclist seven months ago has been arrested.

They say 39-year-old Margarito Valencia Rodriguez is accused of leaving the scene of an accident causing death plus misdemeanor counts of ...

AMITE, La. (AP) — A truck driver has been killed in a crash involving an Amtrak train in Louisiana.

A press release from the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office says the accident happened around 2 p.m. Wednesday at a railway crossing on Louisiana Highway 51. Details have not been ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say one of two longtime pilots hurt when a small plane flipped at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport has died.

The Southeast Missourian reports 74-year-old Lowell Peterson, of ...

WALTERBORO, S.C. (AP) — Authorities in South Carolina say a teen intentionally shot his cousin for eating his potato chips, but lied and called it an accidental shooting.

Colleton County sheriff’s deputies said once the 17-year-old victim recovered, he told investigators the truth about ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Authorities say a teenage driver struck and injured six students near a Pittsburgh high school.

But it’s not yet known what caused the accident, which occurred around 2:45 p.m. Tuesday.

The University Prep students were being treated at hospitals for undisclosed ...

SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a driver died after a collision in the Nebraska Panhandle.

The accident occurred around 4 p.m. Tuesday, just northwest of Scottsbluff. The Nebraska State Patrol says a car entering U.S. Highway 26 from a county road collided with a car on the ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Inupiat community in far northern Alaska is mourning the deaths of two whale hunters who died when their boat capsized while they were towing a bowhead whale home to help feed residents.

Despite their grief, locals still had to butcher the animal when it reached ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say a 6-year-old girl accidentally shot herself in the foot with a gun she found in north Philadelphia.

Police say the child was playing in the basement of a house in the Olney neighborhood shortly after 4:30 p.m. Tuesday when she found a gun in a school ...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Prosecutors say a man convicted of manslaughter and vehicular homicide in a fatal carjacking crash in New Jersey last year has been sentenced to 23 years in prison.

The Essex County prosecutor’s office says a judge sentenced 21-year-old Mutah Brown of Newark on Friday ...

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Eleven people died and 29 were injured Tuesday in three multi-vehicle crashes in Serbia.

Dense morning fog led to two of the crashes on the main north-south highway in central Serbia, leaving seven people dead and 27 injured, according to a police ...

COLTS NECK, N.J. (AP) — Authorities have released the names of two people killed when a tanker truck they were in overturned on a highway in central New Jersey, spilling hundreds of gallons of diesel fuel oil.

Colts Neck police say the truck’s driver, 37-year-old Maurice Boatwright of ...

MOORCROFT, Wyo. (AP) — A motorcycle collided with a car in northeast Wyoming, killing the drivers of both vehicles.

The Wyoming Highway Patrol says the accident occurred about 8:30 p.m. Friday on U.S. 16 near Moorcroft in Crook County.

KTWO-AM in Casper

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A driver accused of crashing an SUV leaving one passenger dead and another injured injuring before fleeing from the scene is charged with vehicular homicide and kidnapping in Hennepin County.

An arrest warrant has been issued for 31-year-old Andre Ogburn, of Minneapolis. ...