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 ...

Volunteer divers have revitalised a dive trail to the site of a Georgian warship, which sank off the Isles of Scilly in 1798. HMS Colossus was a 74-gun warship built in Kent in 1787. Historic England ...

After years of spiraling costs and missed deadlines in British naval procurement, the Type 31 frigate program has stunned the industry by reaching its third ship milestone in record time. The December ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trainer Michael McCarthy has a plan for Formidable Man that will hopefully take him to a victory in this year's Breeders' Cup Mile (G1T) after a second in it last year. That plan involved the May 25 ...

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 ...

There are times when the English language, as rich as it is, is inadequate to express precisely the meaning that we wish to convey. On such occasions we grope in the direction of foreign tongues to ...