Boat Disaster News

A Madison Heights couple was rescued Monday night by a good Samaritan boater and Macomb County Sheriff's deputies when a large wave swamped their small boat in Lake St. Clair near Metropolitan Beach in Harrison Township.

Seattle police Harbor Patrol officers rescued a dog that had become trapped last night on a capsized boat on Lake Washington.

A 14-year-old Otter Lake resident died after clinging to a capsized boat for hours with his father and another man following an accident in the Saginaw Bay, according to Michigan State Police at the Tri-City Post.

Iredell County emergency officials say a fisherman drowned and two friends were rescued after their boat began taking on water in Lake Norman.

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A portion of Velp Ave. in Howard is closed at this time as crews investigate a serious accident between a car and a motorcycle.

Alex Prang spent his entire day on Lake Harriet waiting for fish to bite, but shortly after six on Sunday evening a storm moved through providing his biggest catch of the day.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen.

A Coast Guard report says a passing tugboat helped spark the massive explosions that rocked the Mobile River and injured three people in April.

Monsoon woes gripped several parts of north India today as heavy rains wreaked havoc in the hill states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, leaving over 50 people dead and hundreds stranded, while several parts in Haryana were flooded after water level of Yamuna rose alarmingly.

Philippine authorities said Monday they had abandoned hope of finding alive seven people missing from a ferry which sank last week with dozens on board, after three days of searching in strong currents.

Whether they wore striped bandanas, corsets, regular clothing or swords attached to their hips, thousands of people made it out to the 7th annual Northern California Pirate Festival by the Vallejo waterfront on Saturday.

San Antonio police process the victims' white car at the scene of the fatal crash Sunday on the West Side.

The proponent and opponents of the Northern Gateway pipeline will make their final pitches to a federal review panel starting Monday, at the last stage of public hearings before the panel issues its decision later this year.

Bill Schwindamann, Marshall County emergency management director, is gathering information from the county's townships and communities to access the damage to public infrastructure from two tornadoes and flooding in late May. The estimates will help determine if the county meets the federal or state thresholds for disaster aid.

The Bartlett man who was under the influence of cocaine and alcohol when he ran over Libertyville 10-year-old Tony Borcia with his boat last summer was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison - matching the age of Tony's life.

Malda , June 14 : At least three persons lost their and over forty others went missing after a boat capsized in river Ganga at Manikchak in West Bengal's Malda District this morning.

Six more people were hauled out of the sea after a ferry sank in the Philippines with dozens onboard, officials said Saturday, as navy divers were called in to hunt for survivors.

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Authorities say a fire that engulfed a sprawling building near downtown Indianapolis has prompted the evacuation of a five-block area and rattled surrounding neighborhoods with exploding propane tanks.