Search and rescue efforts
Ugandan athlete missing from training camp in Japan

By Mari Yamaguchi Jul. 16, 2021 05:35 AM EDT
TOKYO (AP) — Local officials are searching for a Ugandan athlete who went missing in western Japan on Friday in a case raising questions over Japanese...

FILE - In this July 24, 2018 file photo, Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman listens to testimony during a Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing in Washington. Raisman is looking for her beloved dog, who ran away scared during a weekend fireworks show in Boston. "My dog Mylo was terrified of fireworks and ran off," she tweeted Saturday, July 3, 2021, "He has a tag on and a leash. Please let me know if you see him." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Gymnast Aly Raisman reunites with dog who went missing

Jul. 10, 2021 03:34 PM EDT

Angelica Pulido looks at a makeshift memorial with photos of some of the missing people near the site of an oceanfront condo building that partially collapsed in Surfside, Fla., Friday, June 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Remembering the dead and missing in Florida condo collapse

By Kelli Kennedy And Michael Tarm Jun. 27, 2021 12:50 PM EDT

Leo Soto, who created this memorial with grocery stores donating flowers and candles, pauses in front of photos of some of the missing people that he put on a fence, near the site of an oceanfront condo building that partially collapsed in Surfside, Fla., Friday, June 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Friends, family describe missing in Florida condo collapse

By The Associated Press Jun. 26, 2021 05:56 PM EDT

A Miami-Dade Fire Rescue team sprays water onto the rubble as rescue efforts continue where a wing of a 12-story beachfront condo building collapsed, late on Thursday, June 24, 2021, in the Surfside area of Miami.(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Death toll in Florida collapse rises to 4; 159 still missing

By Terry Spencer And Adriana Gomez Licon Jun. 25, 2021 12:00 AM EDT

This photo taken from video provided by ReliableNewsMedia firefighters rescue a survivor from the rubble of the Champlain Towers South Condo after the multistory building partially collapsed in Surfside, Fla., early Thursday, June 24, 2021. (ReliableNewsMedia via AP).
Many feared dead after Florida beachfront condo collapses

By Wilfredo Lee, Terry Spencer And David Fischer Jun. 24, 2021 04:12 PM EDT

Search and rescue calls on the rise in Utah's outdoors

Jun. 01, 2021 05:22 PM EDT
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Search and rescue calls are on the rise this spring along the Wasatch Front. Salt Lake County Search and Rescue...

U.S. Coast Guard suspends search for 10 missing Cubans

May. 30, 2021 12:44 PM EDT
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for 10 Cuban migrants who went missing last week after their boat capsized 16 miles...

In this image released by the U.S. Coast Guard, a Coast Guard crew rescues eight people from the water approximately 16 miles south of Key West, Florida, on Thursday, May 27, 2021. A search for 10 Cubans missing from a boat capsize continued Friday, a day after the U.S. Coast Guard rescued other passengers and pulled two bodies from the water. (U.S. Coast Guard via AP)
US Coast Guard continues search for 10 Cubans missing at sea

By Adriana Gomez Licon May. 28, 2021 02:09 PM EDT

Lava from the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo cuts through Buhene north of Goma, Congo Monday, May 24, 2021. Residents returned to destroyed homes and searched for missing loved ones on the outskirts of Goma as officials called for vigilance amid small tremors after the large volcano erupted Saturday May 22, 2021 .  Mount Nyiragongo sent torrents of lava into villages after dark with little warning, leaving at least 15 people dead amid the chaos and destroying more than 500 homes. (AP Photo/Justin Kabumba)
Death toll from Congo volcano eruption rises to at least 32

By Jean-Yves Kamale May. 24, 2021 11:30 AM EDT

Ford pickup trucks built lacking computer chips are shown in parking lot storage in Dearborn, Mich., Tuesday, May 4, 2021. Automakers are cutting production as they grapple with a global shortage of computer chips, and that's making dealers nervous. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Edmunds: Less choice, higher car prices in chip shortage

By Ronald Montoya May. 19, 2021 06:51 AM EDT

This photograph provided by Indian navy shows, one of the men rescued by the navy from the Arabian sea being brought for medical attention at naval air station INS Shikra in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, May 18, 2021. The Indian navy is working to rescue crew members from a sunken barge and a second cargo vessel that was adrift Tuesday off the coast of Mumbai after Cyclone Tauktae, struck the western coast. (Indian Navy via AP)
India scours sea after barge sinks, 2nd adrift after cyclone

By Sheikh Saaliq May. 18, 2021 02:24 AM EDT

The body of a victim is carried after a speedboat overturned Monday morning after hitting a cargo boat in River Padma at the Kanthalbari ferry terminal in Madaripur, central Bangladesh, Monday, May 3, 2021. More than two dozen people were killed. (AP Photo/Abdul Goni)
At least 26 die when speedboat overturns in Bangladesh river

May. 03, 2021 03:00 AM EDT

Israeli security officials and rescuers stand around the bodies of victims who died during a Lag Ba'Omer celebrations at Mt. Meron in northern Israel, Friday, April 30, 2021. The director of an Israeli ambulance service has confirmed that nearly 40 people died in a stampede at a religious festival in northern Israel. (Ishay Jerusalemite/Behadrei Haredim via AP)
Stampede at Israeli religious festival kills nearly 40

By Joseph Krauss Apr. 29, 2021 07:27 PM EDT

Emergency services carry dead bodies of migrants from a wooden boat after arriving at the port of Los Cristianos in the south of Tenerife, in the Canary Island, Spain, Wednesday, April 28, 2021. Spanish authorities have brought to shore the bodies of 24 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, among them two minors. The migrant boat was spotted on Monday by a Spanish military plane 265 nautical miles from the island of El Hierro, three survivors were airlifted, the others are believed to have died from thirst and hunger during the perilous migratory journey from the West coast of Africa to the Canary Islands. (AP Photo/Andres Gutierrez)
Spain recovers 24 bodies from migrant boat off Canaries

Apr. 29, 2021 04:59 AM EDT

The intensive care unit at the Ibn al-Khatib hospital is damaged following a fire that broke out last Saturday evening killing over 80 people and injuring over 100, in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Medical staff who witnessed the first moments of a Baghdad hospital fire described horrific scenes: deafening screams, a patient who jumped to his death to escape the inferno and relatives who died because they refused to abandon coronavirus patients tethered to ventilators. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
Iraqi medics recount horrors from Baghdad's hospital inferno

By Samya Kullab And Abdulrahman Zeyad Apr. 27, 2021 08:41 AM EDT

CORRECTS TO KARI, NOT KERI - Kari Wegg is reflected in a sliding glass door as she looks outside her home in Westfield, Ind., on Monday, March 22, 2021. The Indiana nurse came down with COVID-19 in the summer of 2020; her condition spiraled downward, and her life was saved only by grace of a double lung transplant. The road to normal is a long one, but she's bolstered by the love and support of her husband and sons, and by her own indomitable spirit. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Searching for footing in a life nearly extinguished by COVID

By Adam Geller Apr. 22, 2021 01:15 AM EDT

People affected by recent flooding gather at an aid distribution point in Ile Boleng on Adonara Island, East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia, Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Multiple disasters triggered by Tropical Cyclone Seroja in eastern Indonesia and neighboring East Timor have left a number of people dead or missing. (AP Photo/Rofinus Monteiro)
Indonesia landslides death toll rises to 140, dozens missing

By Ricko Wawo And Niniek Karmini Apr. 07, 2021 11:14 AM EDT

Graphic looks at the college sports that have been cut by school due to the pandemic; 2c x 5 inches
Olympic gold: Colleges, Team USA search for new ways to win

By Eddie Pells Apr. 06, 2021 12:47 PM EDT

Liang Wannian, the Chinese co-leader of the joint China-WHO investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, speaks during a press conference in Beijing, Wednesday, March 31, 2021. Chinese health officials pushed Wednesday for expanding the search for the origins of COVID-19 beyond China, one day after the release of a World Health Organization report on the issue. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
China pushes to expand virus origin search beyond its border

By Ken Moritsugu Mar. 31, 2021 08:55 AM EDT