Boat Disaster News

Two St. Louis County men have been rescued from a cabin cruiser after it hit a navigation barrier called a wing dam in the Mississippi River.

Four Michigan fishermen whose 19-foot boat capsized in western Lake Erie have been rescued.

Despite a fractured collarbone, a teenage girl clung to the wreckage of a plane for more than 13 hours before rescuers found her floating in the Indian Ocean, authorities said.

A 14-year old girl is the only known survivor so far of the 153 people on the Airbus A310 from Sana'a, Yemen, which crashed at sea after missing its first attempt at landing in the Comoran capital, Moroni, in bad weather.

Two people were injured in a helicopter crash Thursday south of Quandary mountain at an elevation of about 13,000 feet.

The Navy's second littoral combat ship, Independence, put to sea for the first time Thursday for builder's trials, three days later than scheduled after its shipyard crew dealt with early engineering problems.

North Korea on Thursday test-fired four short-range missiles, South Korean military officials said, further fuelling tension sparked by its nuclear standoff with the international community.

Curious passersby gathered on a picturesque eastern Ontario bridge Wednesday trying to piece together the shocking mystery of how three teenage sisters and one of their relatives ended up dead in a car in the Rideau Canal.

In this photo provided Sunday June 14, 2009 by the French Army shows a small inflatable boat of French oceanographic survey ship Pourquoi Pas during searches Thursday for debris of the Air France plane that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean.

Crewmembers hooted and applauded as the last boat in Honolulu's failed city ferry service sailed into another gorgeous Hawaii sunset to end one of the seas' best bargains for tourists and commuters.

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands - An amphibious tour bus veered off a road Wednesday, injuring about 30 cruise ship passengers who were taking a shore excursion in the U.S. Virgin Islands, police said.

Three Moroccans who survived a migrant boat accident are accused of organising the journey from North Africa and have been charged with manslaughter.

A GRANDFATHER who lied to police after a high-speed smash that killed his friend has been jailed for five years.

The dramatic moment when a rescuer, suspended from a crane, pulled a drowning woman to safety from the raging waters at the foot of a dam has been captured in pictures.

One person died and 29 are missing after a ship capsized and quickly sank in stormy Persian Gulf waters off the Qatari capital Doha, the vessel's operator said Wednesday.

A 14-year-old girl was rescued alive in the sea amid debris and dead bodies after a Yemeni Airbus jet crashed in the Indian Ocean as it tried to land in the Comoros islands with 153 people aboard.

Recipients of Carnegie Hero medals, which were awarded Thursday: _Terry Ray Odom, 49, of Naples, Fla., and _Richard S. Cameron, 36, of Naples, Fla., saved Ray J. Davis, 55, from drowning when his sport utility vehicle crashed into a golf course lake in East Naples, Fla.

Four New Brunswickers were injured after their car struck a guardrail and fell more than 30 metres into the Jacquet River.

Oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. has decided not to appeal hundreds of millions of dollars in interest on punitive damages resulting from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.

CLEARWATER: A Tarpon Springs man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for crashing a boat into a dock while drunk and causing the death of a passenger.