1 dead and 9 injured in Baltimore County shooting and fiery car crash

TOWSON, Md. (AP) — A shooting and related fiery car crash Tuesday night in a suburban area north of Baltimore killed one person and injured nine, police said. Gunshots were reported throughout a neighborhood near where the car ultimately crashed outside a funeral home that appeared...

Car crashes in foggy weather injure 33 people and force bridge near New Orleans to close for hours

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Several people were injured Tuesday morning after foggy conditions contributed to several car crashes that forced the closure of the 24-mile-long (38.6-kilometer-long) bridge connecting the north and south shores of southeast Louisiana’s Lake Pontchartrain. By early evening,...

Pakistani air ambulance delivers medicines to violence-hit district as roads remain closed

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani charity used an air ambulance on Tuesday to deliver medicines to a northwestern region where a doctor said 29 children had died in the past two months because life-saving supplies couldn't get through roadblocks following sectarian clashes. Air...

Parts of Midwest brace for ice; Michigan first responders dash to safety during major crash

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Freezing rain was expected Friday for parts of the Midwest — especially Iowa, where forecasters warned about a weekend ice storm in one section of the state. The National Weather Service said ice — combined with strong wind in places like Waterloo and...

Son charged with murder after calling 911 to drop father's body off, NY sheriff says

GENESEO, N.Y. (AP) — An upstate New York man has been charged with murder after he tried to drop his father's bullet-riddled body off at a sheriff's office, authorities said. Richard Fluegel Jr., 30, called 911 late Monday to say that he had a body to turn in at the Livingston...

Truck hits van carrying Polish tourists in Kenya, killing 2

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Two Polish tourists have died and two others, along with their Kenyan guide, were badly injured after their vehicle was involved in a collision on the Nairobi-Mombasa highway, police in Kenya said Wednesday. The five were in a van traveling from the coastal...

New Orleans attorneys accused of staging vehicle accidents in fraud scheme

Eight people and two law firms have been charged in what authorities say was more than a decade-long scheme of staging vehicle crashes in the New Orleans area and then submitting fraudulent insurance claims, leading to what prosecutors allege was the murder of one person to cover it up. ...

People jumping in front of cars to get injury payouts sparks a grim holiday warning in South Africa

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A trend in South Africa of people jumping in front of slow-moving cars to get compensation payouts for injuries drew a warning Tuesday from the government’s national Road Accident Fund. In a statement, it said the phenomenon of people intentionally...

6 Guatemalans arrested and charged with human smuggling in deadly 2021 Mexico truck crash

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Six Guatemalans were arrested in Guatemala and in Texas Monday on human smuggling charges linked to a 2021 semitrailer truck crash in Mexico that killed more than 50 migrants, authorities said. The truck had been packed with at least 160 migrants, many of them...

Guatemalan and US officials say 6 people arrested over deadly 2021 Mexico truck crash that killed more than 50 migrants