Jan. 28, 1986, 7 spacefarers were killed when shuttle Challenger exploded midair after launching from Kennedy Space Center in Florida ...

Madel, the attorney known for defending State Trooper Ryan Londregan and advising ICE agent Jonathan Ross, called Operation ...

On Feb. 5, 1856, the steamboat Belle exploded while heading upriver from Sacramento to modern-day Red Bluff, Read the Plaque ...

One year ago, the nation’s deadliest plane crash in decades occurred over the Potomac River when a plane crashed with a helicopter near Reagan National Airport.

Twenty years ago "An Inconvenient Truth" received a standing ovation at the Sundance Film Festival. Though it was full of ...

Rescue teams from the UK, Brazil, and South Africa were called into action to help thousands of people to safety in ...

White County is currently facing its "worst natural disaster" after a severe ice storm devastated the local power grid. The ...

During the series premiere episode of "History's Deadliest with Ving Rhames" Rhames will take viewers on an extraordinary ...

Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades ...

Tragic slips in the Bay of Plenty highlight how geology, heavy rainfall and climate change are combining to amplify a largely ...

The Schoolchildren's Blizzard of 1888, which killed an estimated 235 people, was one of the most deadly disasters. But the deadliest was likely the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. The Schoolhouse Blizzard or ...

During New Year's celebrations, a fire started in a bar at a Swiss ski resort and turned into a huge blaze that killed at least 40 people, and injured more than 100. The fire broke out at around 1:30 ...