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The bodies of 16 of the 39 Vietnamese who died when human traffickers carried them by truck to England last month were repatriated to their homeland on Wednesday and have been taken to their families. The bodies arrived on a flight that landed in Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital, the news website VNExpress reported. The website published photos of ambulances that transported...

About 80 homes have been evacuated after a tractor trailer carrying compressed natural gas overturned on an upstate New York highway

A U.S. Postal Service tractor-trailer tumbled off a busy South Jersey highway Friday morning, leaving it perched nearly upright off an overpass.

The driver of the public works truck that flipped over an overpass near the Lincoln Tunnel helix Wednesday, creating a shocking spectacle and wreaking traffic havoc for hours, described a harrowing few moments in which he desperately tried to save lives on the ground while doing what he could to keep his own.

The driver, Eulalio Diaz, said he was trying to save lives by aiming for the fence in a last-ditch attempt to slow the out-of-control truck down. Thankfully the people hurt only suffered minor injuries. NBC 4 New York’s Drew Wilder reports.

A body believed to be a missing 5-year-old Utah girl was found Wednesday less than a block from her home, bringing a wide-ranging search to a grim close five days after the child was taken from her home and killed by her uncle, police said. The body believed to be Elizabeth “Lizzy” Shelley was found hidden under trees and brush...

Four people died after a semi-truck hauling lumber plowed into vehicles on a crowded section of Interstate 70 near Denver, causing a fire so intense that it melted the roadway and metal off of cars, authorities said Friday. Authorities had to wait until daylight to confirm the death toll from Thursday afternoon’s 28-vehicle pileup because of the devastation caused by...

A Queens man has been arrested in connection with a hit-and-run that killed a 72-year-old cyclist, police say.

A pedestrian who was hit by a tractor-trailer when he tried to take a shortcut and scooted underneath the vehicle last week in New Jersey has died.

Authorities say a pedestrian who tried to take a shortcut by scooting underneath a parked tractor-trailer was critically injured when the driver started up the vehicle and drove away.

A 72-year-old bicyclist was killed after being run down by a driver in midtown. Jamie Roth reports.

A New Hampshire state worker had a deep gash on his face after a large piece of ice came flying off a truck, smashing right through his windshield. William Taylor of the New Hampshire Department of Transportation has eight to nine stitches, a fat lip and other cuts on his face.

Four friends no older than 24, including two brothers and a U.S. Marine, died in a collision involving a car and an oil tanker on the Garden State Parkway early Wednesday, family members and authorities say.

Four young men, including a U.S. Marine and two brothers, died when their crashed into an oil tanker on the Garden State Parkway. Brian Thompson reports.

A 61-year-old NYC woman was killed in NJ when she was struck by two different vehicles, and police have arrested the driver who fled the scene.

Police say two different vehicles slammed into a woman in NJ, killer her, and one driver didn’t even bother to stop. Checkey Beckford reports.

Five people were hurt, one of them critically, when a tractor-trailer carrying cement careened into a discount store and deli in New Jersey, cops say. Brian Thompson reports.

Five people were hurt, one of them critically, when a tractor-trailer carrying cement careened into a discount store and deli in New Jersey Thursday, cops say.

Lawyers for a man charged with killing eight people when he drove his truck onto a New York City bike path said Tuesday that the death penalty should be ruled out because President Donald Trump was “uninformed and full or rage” when he called for it.

JWoww of “Jersey Shore” has filed for divorce from her husband of less than three years. The divorce complaint was filed Sept. 12 in Ocean County Superior Court, citing irreconcilable differences between JWoww, whose real name is Jenni Farley, and Roger Mathews. The Asbury Park Press reports the 32-year-old Farley is starring in “Jersey Shore: Family Vacation” and the spinoff...