1939 — The barnstorming Renaissance Five beat the NBL champion Oshkosh All-Stars, 34-25, to win the first annual World Professional Basketball Tournament in Chicago. Sports reporters of the day make ...

Thanks to James "Easter" Heathman for opening the door to his home in 2001. In 1931, Heathman saw Knute Rockne's plane go down in a remote Kansas cattle ranch. Heathman, living nearby, eventually ...

The National Transportation Safety Board released the preliminary report on its investigation into a deadly plane crash at Scottsdale Airport, giving new details into what may have transpired.

Changes need to be made': He lost his wife and son in the DC plane crash. Now, he wants to see change. "We are now transitioning to a recovery and an investigation phase, and we are awaiting ...

The crash happened around 3:15 p.m. just south of Lancaster Airport in Manheim Township, according to police. All aboard the plane were taken to the hospital, officials said at the press conference.

Knute Rockne was much more well-known for being ... Furthermore, if not for a tragic plane crash, he might have won a few more championships along the way. Rockne is the reason why Notre Dame ...

A fatal plane crash on Long Island that left a mother dead and her daughter gravely injured was “entirely preventable” following a federal crash report citing an electrical short as the likely ...

SKATERS, INCLUDING SOME FROM BOSTON, PERFORMING IN LEGACY ON ICE, A FUNDRAISING TRIBUTE TO HELP THE FAMILIES AND FIRST RESPONDERS AFFECTED BY THE CRASH, INCLUDING SIX FROM THE SKATING CLUB OF BOSTON.

The skating world has endured tragedy before, when the entire U.S. figure skating team died in a plane crash in Belgium in 1961. “The 1961 crash really affected me. My coach passed away in that ...

Maxim's parents Evgenia Shiskova and Vadim Naumov were among the 67 victims who died in the Jan. 29 American Airlines crash Alexandra Rockey Fleming is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...

A quintet of American figure skating legends paid tribute to the 28 members of the skating world who died when an American Eagle flight c ollided with a Black Hawk helicopter in Washington, D.C ...