Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D.—State Sen. Bob Stenehjem, who was North Dakota’s Senate Republican majority leader for a decade, was killed Monday in a one-vehicle accident in Alaska, family members said. Mr. Stenehjem, 59, had been on a halibut fishing vacation near the Alaska community of Homer on the state’s south coast. He had been visiting ... Read more

Associated Press 4:25 p.m. CDT, July 17, 2011 LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz.— Sheriff’s officials say an Illinois couple who were thrown from a boat on Arizona’s Lake Havasu is missing but presumed drowned. Authorities say the operator of a 28-foot deck boat made an abrupt turn while traveling at 70 or 80 mph Friday evening. ... Read more

A Martin County Coal Mine remains closed while state investigators try to determine what caused an accident that killed a miner Monday night. 26 year old Ryan Thatcher died from head injuries suffered inside Martin County Coal’s Voyager Number Seven Mine. Thatcher’s family and friends are mourning the loss. Ryan Thatcher lived in Magoffin County. ... Read more

Published: Monday, July 11, 2011, 6:36 PM Updated: Monday, July 11, 2011, 6:36 PM By Eunice Lee/The Star-Ledger BORDENTOWN — A concrete barrier meant to guide traffic instead crushed a truck driver to death today at a construction site on the New Jersey Turnpike. The barrier, weighing at least one ton, fell off a flatbed ... Read more

Published: Monday, July 11, 2011 1:58 AM EDT TIVOLI, N.Y. — Four people were killed and two others seriously injured early Sunday when their boat struck a concrete footing in the Hudson River and sank, according to the Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office. Just before 6:30 a.m., authorities responded to an area very close to the ... Read more