Archive for the ‘Disaster Accident’ Category

Obama daughter safe after Mexico earthquake

Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

Mexico Earthquake

WASHINGTON The White House said Tuesday that President Barack Obama's 13-year-old daughter Malia was safe after an earthquake hit Mexico where she is on spring break vacation with friends. ...

Argentina train crash: an avoidable tragedy?

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
Argentina Train Crash

The train crash at Once station in the heart of Buenos Aires, with forty-nine dead and more than six-hundred injured, is the worst in Argentina in more than forty years. ...

Russia’s lost heroes: Nation mourns a sporting tragedy

Sunday, September 11th, 2011
Airline Baby Ban

Occasionally, a wail of despair rang through the air, but mostly they stood in silence. Throughout the day yesterday, thousands of fans of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl made their way to the ice hockey team's stadium to pay their respects, their faces set grimly in expressions of shock. They carried bunches of red carnations and lit candles ...

Swat on top of hurricane preparedness

Thursday, September 1st, 2011
Best Floor Cleaners

News Print | Published September 1, 2011 Best Floor Cleaners ...

Bam Performs Lil Wayne RAP at Ryan Dunn Tribute

Friday, August 5th, 2011
Bam Margera

Bam Margera rolled to Pennsylvania this weekend to help raise money for the widow of the passenger killed in Ryan Dunn's car crash last month ... by RAPPING to a Lil Wayne song! Bam surprised everyone at The Note in West Chester, PA on Saturday ... when he hopped up on the stage, grabbed the ...

Maria Sharapova

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
Maria Sharapova

Caroline Wozniacki, Maria Sharapova, and Li Na will soon begin working to help tsunami and earthquake victims in Japan. The three tennis talents will participate in charity events before headlining the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo in September. ...

Oil spill contaminates Emigrant Creek

Monday, June 13th, 2011
Sheen Dumped

CASPER, Wyo. Malfunctioning equipment at an oil well storage site dumped an undetermined amount of crude oil into Emigrant Creek south of Rawlins, the Bureau of Land Management announced Friday. ...

Victim of hit and run dies

Sunday, June 5th, 2011
Jerry Springer

LORETTO, TENN. - An investigation into a May 10 hit-and-run accident in Loretto has turned into a vehicular homicide case now that the person struck has died, authorities said Friday. ...

Too soon to rush back to deepwater drilling

Sunday, April 17th, 2011
Mexico Earthquake

A year has passed since the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig killed 11 workers and triggered the worst environmental disaster in the nation's history. The pictures of oil slicks and spoiled beaches have given way to scenes from the earthquake in Japan and the floods in North Dakota. But while the nation's memory ...

Earthquake hits southern Mexico

Sunday, April 10th, 2011
Mexico Earthquake

Southern Mexico was struck by a 6.2 magnitude earthquake early Wednesday morning, leaving one man dead. Tremors were felt miles away in the capitol Mexico City, where buildings were visibly shaking and swaying back and forth. ...