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A joyous weekend took a horrifying turn when family and friends learned that three groomsmen — including the brother of the groom-to-be — were among four people killed in a boat crash, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.

An Indiana sheriff says a 4-year-old boy who was fatally shot while out fishing with his father was struck in the head. Wells County Sheriff Monte Fisher told The Associated Press on Sunday that Jacob Michuda was shot in the head late Friday night while he and his father were fishing from a pier at a pond outside Ossian.

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver's 13-year-old son Christopher is in the hospital after suffering serious injuries in a surfing accident last weekend. According to TMZ, Christopher has been in the ICU in a Los Angeles-area hospital; he suffered broken bones and a collapsed lung after having the accident in Malibu.

An investigation is under way into a roller coaster accident in upstate New York that killed a U.S. Army veteran who had been trying to rebuild his life after losing both legs in Iraq....

A small plane crashed into a central California hospital's unoccupied office building and burst into flames just after takeoff.

Mexican rescuers were scouring the Gulf of California on Tuesday for seven U.S. tourists whose fishing boat capsized two days ago, saying they were extending their search because the missing tourists could still be alive in the warm, calm waters....

An accident involving a so-called "bounce castle" in Long Island, NY, over the weekend that sent 13 to the hospital illustrated the perils of the popular inflatable amusement rides.

A joyful spring carnival turned into a nightmare yesterday when three inflatable bounce houses full of happily jumping kids suddenly lifted into the air and toppled over, injuring 13 people.

An 11-year-old girl died Friday after falling from a Ferris wheel while on a class trip to an amusement park in New Jersey, police said.

A Yale University student has died in an apparent accident in a chemistry lab machine shop, an official said.