A bus plummeted 50 feet from an elevated road in Venice, killing 21 people in a fiery crash

VENICE (AP) — A bus carrying dozens of people plummeted 15 meters (50 feet) from an elevated road in Venice, causing a fiery crash that killed 21 people and injured at least 15, mostly foreign tourists returning to a nearby campsite. Those who died in the Tuesday night crash...

Bus crash across lagoon from Venice's historic center kills 21 people, including Ukrainian tourists

ROME (AP) — At least 21 people were killed and 18 injured in a fiery bus crash in a borough of Venice, Italy, across the lagoon from its historic center, where firefighters and other emergency responders worked into the night trying to extract bodies and squelch the flames. The bus...

Italian authorities say a bus crash has killed at least 20 people near Venice

Sleater-Kinney announce new album ‘Little Rope’ — shaped by loss and grief — will arrive in 2024

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a video introducing Sleater-Kinney’s last album, 2021’s “Path of Wellness,” the duo of Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker ask a psychic if they’ll ever record another album. She initially says yes, then changes her answer to “That’s really up in the air.” ...

A Florida death row inmate convicted of killing a deputy and 2 others dies in prison, officials say

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida death row inmate convicted of killing a deputy and two other people more than 40 years ago has died in prison, officials said. Paul Beasley Johnson, 74, died Saturday while receiving ongoing medical treatment while in the custody of the Union...

5 died of exposure to chemical in central Illinois crash, preliminary autopsies find

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Five people died from exposure to a chemical that spilled after a semitruck overturned in central Illinois, according to autopsies conducted Monday. Effingham County Coroner Kim Rhodes said official results from the autopsies won't be available for several...

Attempt to pass a tanker may have led to the deadly chemical crash in Illinois, official says

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The tanker truck crash in central Illinois that killed five people may have started when another vehicle tried to pass the chemical-laden truck, a federal transportation official said Sunday. The tanker truck was carrying caustic anhydrous ammonia when it...

10 Cuban migrants are killed in a freight truck crash in southern Mexico, 17 seriously injured

TAPACHULA, Chiapas (AP) — At least 10 Cuban migrants died and 17 others were seriously injured after a freight truck they were riding in crashed on a highway in southern Mexico near the border with Guatemala. The National Immigration Institute said all of the dead Cuban migrants...

4 in stolen car flee attempted traffic stop, die in fiery Maryland crash, police say

MITCHELLVILLE, Md. (AP) — Four people in a stolen SUV died in a fiery crash in Maryland after the driver fled from an attempted traffic stop and later crashed into a tree, police said Sunday. Officers were working to identify the victims, whose ages and genders were not yet known...

Authorities: 5 people killed, 5 others seriously injured in Illinois after crash of truck carrying toxic substance