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A yacht racing off the coasts of California and Mexico apparently collided at night with a much larger vessel, leaving three crew members dead and one missing, a sailing organization said early Sunday. It was the state's second ocean racing tragedy this month....

Five people died and at least 34 were injured -- four of them critically -- in a crash involving a Greyhound bus and two other vehicles on a highway in Fresno, California, early Thursday, the California Highway Patrol said.

A truck crossed a Kentucky interstate median and slammed head-on into a Mennonite church van headed to a wedding, killing 11 people, state police said Friday.

Two commuter trains collided at rush hour in a Brussels suburb Monday, killing a number of people, officials said.

A Coast Guard plane collided with a Marine helicopter over the Pacific Ocean near Southern California on Thursday evening, officials said.

Two choppers collide in the south, and a third goes down in the wake of a firefight in the west. Among the dead are three civilian contractors.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Eleven U.S. troops and three American civilian contractors were killed in two separate helicopter crashes today, inflicting one of the war's heaviest one-day losses on U.S.

Between 15 and 20 people died Saturday when two trains collided outside of Cairo, Egypt, and officials expect the death toll to rise, the country's Interior Ministry said.

Murky water hampers the search for victims after the crash of the private plane and sightseeing copter, which occurred in uncontrolled airspace.

Several dozen people were injured when two San Francisco light-rail trains collided Saturday afternoon at the West Portal Station, ...

Investigators also find evidence that the train was in automatic mode, meaning the onboard computer should have slowed it down.