NEW YORK — A woman whose remains were found in a trash compactor in the basement of a public housing building in Brooklyn this month most likely died after slipping down a garbage chute and into the ...

A man shot to death on the street in Brooklyn had learned to walk again as a boy after his foot was nearly severed in a gruesome trash compactor accident — and more recently was trying to turn his ...

ROSS TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Emergency crews handled an overnight fire in an apartment building’s trash compactor. Fire officials say a fire alarm call for the Cosmopolitan Apartments on McKnight East Drive ...