Millionaire banker J.P. Morgan was supposed to ride on the Titanic, but he decided against it at the last minute, leading ...

Violet Jessop spent most of her working life aboard ocean liners, and three of them either sank or nearly did while she was on board. She kept going back to sea after every single one, as though none ...

HOUSTON — Two people were killed in a wreck involving an 18-wheeler on the Katy Freeway inbound near Highway 6 Wednesday morning, according to Houston police. The crash happened just after 5 a.m. on ...

ATLANTA — A plan by RMS Titanic Inc. to auction more than 100 artifacts salvaged from the wreckage of the Titanic is facing opposition from the U.S. government, according to newly unsealed court ...

Turn 1 became calamity corner again at Naval Base Coronado as a Lap 32 restart in Stage 2 of Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race sparked a multicar incident at the front of the field. Austin Hill slid the ...

HILL COUNTY, Texas (KWTX) - The Texas Department of Public Safety has identified the six people, including two children, killed in a fiery head-on collision on June 20. The scene of the deadly wreck ...

A Japanese ship was in a convoy steaming through the South China Sea on September 21, 1944, with around 1,200 British and Dutch prisoners of war crammed in its holds. US warplanes, mistaking the ...

I've done this 'racin deal for a long time, as Darrell Waltrip (D-Dubya!) would say. I've watched a lot of NASCAR races. Covered a lot of Daytona 500s. Seen a lot of nasty wrecks. A lot of nasty ...

In “The Wreck of the Mentor,” the maritime historian Eric Jay Dolin brings to life a dramatic episode from the golden age of whaling. By Blair Braverman Blair Braverman is a writer, adventurer and dog ...

Democrats are likely to retake the House and maybe the Senate in November, which is reason to ask: What would they do with that power? One emerging answer is that they seem determined to blow up the ...

Chaos erupted deep into the final quarter of the Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday night after a massive multi-car crash brought out Caution No. 9 on Lap 330 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The wreck exploded down ...

In November 1832, eight survivors of the sunken American whaleship Mentor set out into the Pacific Ocean in a pair of rickety boats. The party aimed for Ternate, an island in Indonesia, 800 miles from ...