SAN DIEGO (AP) — Alan DeWeese had just finished watching a fireworks display aboard his 26-foot Sea Ray when he heard an engine roar behind him in San Diego Bay. He turned around, but it was too late to dodge the Coast Guard boat heading toward him in the dark. ...more

December 21, 2009

A Los Angeles County coroner's official says it appears actress Brittany Murphy died of natural causes. ...more

December 20, 2009

An ambulance driver lost control of his vehicle Monday night and crashed into a pickup truck on Busch Boulevard, Tampa police said, closing the road in both directions for hours. ...more

October 20, 2009

The St. Petersburg Fire Department is working a gas leak at 8th Street and 22nd Avenue South. ...more

August 25, 2009

A fire that raged through an apartment complex building this morning was arson, investigators said, the second in less than a month at Waterman's Crossing. ...more

August 3, 2009

Officials say the mobile home where a repeat sex offender raped and murdered a 9-year-old Florida girl in 2005 has burned down. ...more

February 16, 2009

The Boston Red Sox's season isn't quite up in flames — but a small fire at one of the most visible landmarks near Fenway Park can't be a good omen. ...more

October 15, 2008

Firefighters backed by water-dumping helicopters and planes gained ground Sunday on a wildfire that destroyed two homes and forced the evacuation of about 1,200 people in a rugged area 20 miles north of downtown Los Angeles. ...more

October 13, 2008

A Fourth of July fireworks shell misfired in a northern Iowa town, sending a fireball skidding down a street into a crowd of spectators and injuring 37 people, officials said Saturday. ...more

July 6, 2008

The dark, filthy water that flooded Iowa's second-largest city finally started to recede Saturday after forcing 24,000 people to flee, but those who remained were urged to cut back on showering and flushing to save the last of their unspoiled drinking water. ...more

June 15, 2008