OSWEGO, N.Y.—A body that washed up on the shores of Lake Ontario in 1992 has been identified as a Buffalo man who is believed to have died going over Niagara Falls. Vincent Stack went missing in Niagara Falls State Park on Dec. 4, 1990. DNA technology helped identify his remains, which drifted 15 miles (24 […]
BRUSSELS—A woman was killed and two people were injured by a large Christmas tree that fell over during stormy weather in the Belgian city of Oudenaarde, authorities said on Friday. Security camera footage on Belgian news media showed a brightly lit 20-metre (66 ft) high Christmas tree slowly leaning over, then collapsing next to a […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Police in Kansas City, Missouri, are investigating the circumstances that led to a child’s death in a fall from a downtown apartment building. Police have not confirmed the child’s name but say it was a boy under age 12. Capt. Corey Carlisle said Tuesday that police are still working to determine how far […]
BOSTON—A man who was rescued by the crew of a commercial fishing boat after he fell overboard from a tanker has died, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office said Wednesday. The crew of America pulled the man from the water Tuesday morning, and Boston Fire Department and Coast Guard personnel came aboard to assist as […]
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz.—A 13-year-old North Dakota boy has survived a fall of nearly 100 feet at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon during a family trip. Authorities said it took emergency crews two hours to rescue Wyatt Kauffman after he slipped on a cliff Tuesday and plunged nearly 100 feet at the […]
A California woman died after falling off a mountain in the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, the National Park Service said. Before dawn on Friday, hiker Joy Cho of Simi Valley, California, fell off the west side of Teewinot Mountain, part of the Teton Range, the park service said in a news release. The […]
RIO DE JANEIRO—An apartment building condemned for more than a decade but used by homeless people collapsed in Brazil’s northeastern state of Pernambuco, killing 14 people, including six children, firefighters reported Saturday. The building in Recife’s Paulista suburb crumbled in the early hours of Friday, prompting a frantic search for victims. Searchers combed through the […]
President Joe Biden fell on stage during the Air Force Academy graduation on Thursday, according to video footage, while a White House official stressed that the president is fine. Biden appeared to fall to his knees, but he was quickly helped back to his feet by White House officials during the event in Colorado Springs. Biden, […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that every second of every day, an adult 65 and older suffers a fall in the United States. A team of engineering students in Houston has designed a possible solution for tackling that risk.
A Chinese acrobat has fallen to her death during an aerial silks performance, sparking horror and outcry on social media over the lack of safety measures. The woman, surnamed Sun, fell to the stage while performing a mid-air routine on Saturday with her husband in a village near the city of Suzhou in central Anhui […]
Anaheim Police said they are investigating the circumstances of the death of a woman who fell off a Disneyland parking structure Saturday night. Anaheim Police and Anaheim Fire and Rescue responded to the Mickey and Friends Parking Structure at the Disneyland Resort around 6:50 p.m. for reports of someone having “jumped or fallen” off the […]
A 4-year-old girl, a 9-year-old boy, and two adults survived after the car they were traveling in plunged 250 feet off a cliff in California on Monday. The four people were inside a Tesla sedan that “traveled off the main portion of the roadway” and plummeted over the cliff, according to a San Mateo County […]
BANGKOK—An Irish national taking a tour in western Thailand died Tuesday after falling out of a moving train, police said. The man was identified as 45-year-old Patrick Ward, whose Irish passport said he was born in New Zealand. His current place of residence was not immediately known, but he entered Thailand on Monday on a […]
GUWAHATI, India—A truck carrying Indian soldiers skidded down a steep slope into a gorge in India’s remote northeast on Friday, killing at least 16, the army said. Four other soldiers were injured in the accident in Chatten, 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of Gangtok, the Sikkim state capital, it said. The accident occurred when the […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.—A man who was serving in the Air National Guard died after he fell while snowboarding at an indoor ski park inside a New Jersey mall, officials and family members said. Peter Mathews, 24, of Bay Shore on New York’s Long Island, fell Dec. 8 as he snowboarded at the Big Snow American […]
A Kenyan security guard who reportedly fell while on duty at Qatar’s Lusail Stadium has died in hospital, his family and officials have confirmed to CNN. His employer had notified the migrant worker’s family on Saturday that 24-year-old John Njau Kibue had fallen from the 8th floor of the stadium while on duty, his sister […]
An Alabama man who rescuers pulled from the Gulf of Mexico hours after he was reported missing from a cruise ship doesn’t know how he wound up in the water, he told ABC. James Michael Grimes, who treaded water for a large part of Thanksgiving Day before he was rescued, doesn’t remember falling off the […]
After six years of preparation, struggle, and sacrifice, Felix Baumgartner found himself quite literally on the edge of the world. “I’m standing there on top of the world outside of a capsule in space and in the stratosphere. I looked around the sky above me was completely black,” Baumgartner told CNN Sport’s Patrick Snell as […]
The family of a 12-year-old Little League World Series player who suffered a fractured skull after falling from a bunk bed with no safety rails is suing the league and the company that made the bed, according to court documents. Easton Oliverson of Utah’s Snow Canyon Little League fell from a bunk bed while sleeping […]
