On August 22, 1986, the villagers near Lake Nyos in Cameroon went to sleep, unaware of the silent disaster about to strike.

Just one hour at the shore of Lake Karachay would be enough to kill. The radioactive lake ... irradiating half a million people. It was decided that work needed to be done to help those at ...

Reports of dead waterfowl surfaced over the weekend along the southern shores of Lake Michigan near Chicago ... The majority of waterfowl were red-breasted mergansers, a diving duck also known ...

1977: A bystander called it “a slow-motion horror.” The Tribune called it the worst crash in Chicago Transit Authority ...

Bounena Sidi Mohamed, deputy director of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said at least ...

While it's tragic and alarming to see a massive die-off, it's not uncommon for birds that travel in such large populations.

Mr. Sides would attempt to kill her," he said. After Sides fired shots, he sped away in his red pick up truck and attempted to flee from Lake Worth Officers. Video shows the truck narrowly missing ...

Here's what we know about three people dying from what officials believe to be carbon monoxide poisoning on a boat at Saguaro Lake on Jan. 18.

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - A stray bullet killed a man in his apartment when a driver shot at people throwing snowballs early Tuesday morning, a witness told KPLC. Tyler LeBleu, 20, was killed in the ...

RED LAKE, Minn. — A Red Lake Department of Public Safety officer was one of two people killed in a crash in the northern Minnesota community Wednesday morning. The department said officer Jesse ...

The suspect was also killed. The standoff began on Monday night. Maine State Police and the Aroostook County Sheriff's Office responded to a domestic violence report at a home in Portage Lake ...