SMITHTOWN, N.Y. — A Long Island man's four-legged friend got him into a sticky situation Thursday. He ended up sinking waist-deep into mud in a Smithtown park, getting stuck for nearly an hour. His ...

A man trying to retrieve his dog that had wandered onto the mud of a former Long Island lake ended up getting stuck himself, police said, and needed to be rescued as he sank into the chest-high muck.

Residents were concerned that a barge was sinking a little before 11 a.m. in New Bedford Harbor when it appeared to split in ...

A construction worker on a fishing trip dramatically rescued two Norwegian bird watchers who were sinking into a mudflat in southern Thailand, lying down in the mud to allow the pair to use his body ...