Nov 12 - By Associated Press
Authorities say an early morning blaze swept through a house in Dallas, killing a couple and their 5-year-old son.
Nov 12 - By Associated Press
A Tanzanian government official says a landslide has killed 11 children and nine adults near Mt. Kilimanjaro.
Nov 9 - By Associated Press
Oklahoma City police say a fire that swept through a home where four people were found dead was intentionally set.
Oct 22 - By Associated Press
The director of a circus arena says an ice-skating bear turned on its trainers, killing one and seriously wounding another.

Oct 21 - By Jim Gomez, Associated Press Writer
The World Health Organization will send an emergency team to help the Philippines fight a bacterial disease outbreak that has killed at least 148 people and sickened nearly 2,000 in and around the flood-hit capital, officials said Thursday.

Sep 27 - By Robert Imrie, Associated Press Writer
Waterways across the upper Midwest are increasingly plagued with ugly, smelly and potentially deadly blue-green algae, bloomed by drought and fertilizer runoffs from farm fields, that's killed dozens of dogs and sickened many people.
Sep 18 - By Associated Press
A man fell to his death from a third-story hotel window while re-enacting an Ultimate Fighting Championship move during a night of drinking.
Sep 17 - By Juan Zamorano , Associated Press Writer
The death toll from contaminated medicine sold three years ago in Panama could be higher than previously believed after 1,155 bottles of tested positive for a chemical commonly found in antifreeze and brake fluid, investigators said Thursday.

Sep 11 - By Emery P. Dalesio, AP Business Writer
Lance Cpl. Patrick Malone was relaxing on his bunk at an Iraqi combat base when a direct superior interrupted his late-night movie.
Sep 4 - By Associated Press
Police in Texas say a group of teenagers were trying to break into a home when a resident opened fire and killed two of the youths.
Aug 30 - By Associated Press
Officials say one person was killed and three police officers were injured in an early morning fire at a hotel in central New Jersey.

Aug 18 - By Kate Brumback, Associated Press Writer
Sherry Schweder worried about a group of mixed-breed dogs she saw wandering near her home, a pack that authorities say mauled her and her husband to death along a rural road in northeast Georgia.
Aug 5 - By Associated Press
Officials in Florida say a corrections officer shot and killed an inmate who tried to escape from jail by climbing a razor wire fence.
Aug 4 - By Associated Press
Five people have died after their sport utility vehicle crashed and caught fire on an Orange County freeway in Mission Viejo.

Aug 1 - By Jonathan M. Katz, Associated Press Writer
LIMONADE, Haiti — When Alix Charles slipped out of his tin-roofed shack at night, he didn't say where he was going, only that he would be back soon.

Jul 27 - By Joan Lowy, Associated Press Writer
The risk of commercial airplanes crashing because they've struck large birds is increasing and design standards should be strengthened so that aircraft can withstand the collisions, federal safety officials said Tuesday.
Jul 14 - By David N. Goodman, Associated Press Writer
Icy winter roads and vacation-clogged summer highways might seem the most dangerous for motorists, but new research says fall is when driving is at its deadliest.

Jul 12 - By Peter James Spielmann, Associated Press Writer
War is hell, it's long been said. But just how hellish it can be is a more difficult question, judging from disputes among researchers at several highly respected international peace institutes. They cannot agree on whether war is becoming more or less deadly — or even on how to count the dead.

Jul 8 - By R.K. Misra, Associated Press Writer
Opposition leaders accused police of abetting bootlegging in western India, saying they were partly responsible for the recent deaths from illegally brewed poisonous liquor. The death toll rose to 112 on Friday.
Jun 4 - By Associated Press
A storm with gale-force winds killed 22 people and seriously injured 117 in central China, state media said Friday.

May 8 - By Associated Press
A powerful typhoon dumped heavy rains, triggered landslides and left at least 10 people dead and four missing in the northern Philippines, officials said Friday.
May 7 - By Jon Gambrell, Associated Press Writer
A bus driver involved in a crash that left four people dead in 2007 pleaded guilty Thursday to misdemeanor negligent homicide after prosecutors acknowledged they couldn't prove their case against him.
Apr 17 - By Associated Press
Three young siblings were found dead after a fire swept through their home early Friday morning, just three months after another fire killed two children in this rural central Missouri town.
Apr 9 - By Murray Evans, Associated Press Writer
An extensive investigation has failed to determine how E. coli bacteria was introduced into a northeastern Oklahoma restaurant linked to hundreds of illnesses and one death, the state health board said in a report released Thursday.
Mar 19 - By Associated Press
A spider found in a Tulsa grocery store might not have been as deadly as initially thought.