Arrest reported Casey Tush, 36, Iola, was arrested by Iola police officers May 20 for suspicion of theft in the 2200 block of North State Street. Pickup hit An unknown motorist struck a pickup owned…

GIRARD — A two-vehicle head-on collision in Crawford County claimed the life of an Arizona woman and left another with serious injuries. The Pittsburg morning Sun said Judith E. Keener of Kayenta, Ariz., died after…

Cyclist injured in crash Jillian M. Ward was injured when the bicycle she was riding collided with a car driven by Carolyn Whitcomb in Iola Aug. 28. Iola police officers said Ward was westbound on…

MENDON, Mo. (AP) — An Amtrak passenger train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago struck a dump truck Monday in a remote area of Missouri, killing three people and injuring dozens more as rail cars…

EDISON, Neb. (AP) — A wildfire in southern Nebraska fueled by dry conditions and strong winds forced the evacuation of the small village of Edison, destroyed several homes and factored into the death of a…

WUZHOU, China (AP) — Mud-stained wallets. Bank cards. Official identity cards. Poignant reminders of 132 lives presumed lost were lined up by rescue workers scouring a remote Chinese mountainside Tuesday for the wreckage of a…

BEIJING (AP) — A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in a remote mountainous area of southern China on Monday, officials said, setting off a forest fire visible from space in…

CHARLESTON, Mo. (AP) — The number of deaths has risen to six from a series of fiery chain-reaction crashes involving dozens of vehicles on a fog-covered interstate in southeast Missouri, officials said Friday. The Mississippi…

TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico (AP) — Rescue workers arriving at a road accident in southern Mexico found a horrific scene: A tractor-trailer jammed with as many as 200 migrants crashed into the base of a steel…

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — One person was killed and two others were critically injured Thursday when a vehicle hit two pedestrians and crashed into a Walmart in Kansas City, Kansas, police said.  The crash…