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An athlete competing in the Ironman U.S. Championship in New York City and New Jersey died Saturday after having a medical problem during the swimming portion of the grueling triathlon, race officials said... Deaths in triathlon competitions have happened with regularity in recent years, almost always during the swim, and the Hudson River has been particularly dangerous.

A 10-year-old boy escaped through the window of a minivan and swam to shore to get help just as his mother drove the van into New York's Hudson River, killing herself and three other children, police said Wednesday....

After that flight -- dubbed "The Miracle on the Hudson" -- Sullenberger has become a celebrity, appearing on TV shows and writing a book, "Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters." He was reportedly paid $2.5 million to $3 million for the book.

Passengers of US Airways Flight 1549 could soon have a unique souvenir from their harrowing flight that ended in New York's Hudson River -- although it would be quite a large one.

Two minutes after he cleared a private plane for takeoff and a fateful flight over the Hudson River, an air traffic controller at a New Jersey airport was on the phone with a woman in the airport operations office, joking about barbecuing a dead cat.

Murky water hampers the search for victims after the crash of the private plane and sightseeing copter, which occurred in uncontrolled airspace.

Tess Sosa and her daughter have had a hard time forgetting US Airways Flight 1549's emergency landing in New York City's Hudson River in January.

The air traffic controller who handled US Airways Flight 1549 thought he was hearing a death sentence when the pilot said he ...

The crew of a US Airways jetliner disabled by birds that knocked out both its engines over New York calmly told air controllers: "We're gonna be in the Hudson" before splash landing in the river, according to tapes of the account released on Thursday.

The left engine recovered from US Airways Flight 1549 reveals evidence of bird strikes similar to the damage previously found inside the plane's right engine.