According to Montgomery County Fire and Rescue spokesperson David Pazos, the department's Swift Water Rescue Team was ...

The crash occurred around 9 p.m. before search and rescue efforts began in the nearby Potomac River for the 60 passengers and four crew members from the plane and three soldiers from the helicopter.

A man and child were rescued Friday afternoon from the rushing Potomac River during a fast-moving water emergency near the ...

WASHINGTON — As floodwaters from this week’s torrential rains begin to recede, they are leaving behind a grim aftermath along the Potomac River: vast rafts of logs, twisted lumber, household ...

The bodies of 55 of the 67 victims killed when a plane and helicopter crashed near Reagan National Airport have been recovered from the Potomac River, officials said in a news conference Sunday.

Crews remove more wreckage of the American Airlines jet from the Potomac River as they continue recovery efforts from last week's fatal midair collision that killed 67 people near Ronald Reagan ...

Officials say the conditions of the Potomac River are complicating recovery efforts of the bodies of the 67 presumed dead in a mid-air collision between American Airlines flight 5342 from Wichita ...

Washington, D.C., is in no hurry to make swimming in the Potomac River legal despite significant improvements made in the river’s water quality and bacterial levels. Under Washington law ...