Stories tagged "tragedy"

TWO of the teenagers in Friday night's horrific car crash that left three dead and two fighting for their lives were teenage sweethearts. To learn more about this tragedy between the young love couples visit www.13above.com

A Spanish emergency rescue official says there are only 26 survivors after an airliner with 173 people aboard crashed on takeoff from Madrid's airport.

After 10 months in hospitals, five operations and excruciating physical therapy, 6-year-old Duaa Al Ghaithi had just one wish. "Play with my sisters," said the avest little girl in New York.

For the many who were there that day, the pain of the Crandall Canyon Mine collapse in Emery County, Utah on Aug. 6, 2007 is still being felt to this day.

One inevitable measure of a mountain is simply how often climbers escape with their lives. By that standard, K2 stands almost alone in the world.

In all, 11 lives were lost in the worst episode on K2 since 13 climbers died over a two-week span in 1986.

Read on for a list of actors whose untimely deaths cast a pall over opening weekend, caused a surge of macabre publicity, and, in some cases, forced the critics to bite their tongues.

Divers pulled seven bodies out of the Sava River and fought strong currents Friday to search for five other missing people after two canoes were crushed running over a dam in southeastern Slovenia.

There is nothing in the Constitution that allows the government to bailout someone whose house burned down, or a car company, or someone with medical problems, or someone who spent too much on a house they could not afford, or a bank that made bad loans.

A man who led police to the charred remains of his two children was charged with capital murder on Monday.