A storm brought heavy rain and strong winds across northern Europe overnight and into Friday, bringing down trees and prompting warnings of flooding on the North Sea coast. A woman in Belgium was fatally injured by a falling Christmas tree, while another tree killed a person in the Netherlands.
The pilot of a single-engine plane was killed Thursday when he crashed into a parking lot at the Lake Lanier Islands Resort in Buford, Georgia, about 60 miles north of Atlanta.
A Philadelphia television news helicopter returning from an assignment photographing Christmas lights earlier this week plunged into a southern New Jersey forest "at very high speed," broke apart, then caught fire after it crashed, killing both occupants, a federal crash investigator said Friday.