A backhoe operator in middle Tennessee was saved on Tuesday after a pit of rocks and dirt he was digging collapsed and buried him alive for almost half a day, officials said. Firefighters responded ...

JACKSONVILLE — Luke Avery finally brought home the gold to Jacksonville’s Wastewater Department by placing first in an “equipment rodeo” in Hot Springs on April 30. Avery, who has been a backhoe ...

The man who operated a backhoe at the site of Wednesday's deadly building collapse in downtown Philadelphia had an extensive criminal history prior to his most recent arrest. Since 1994, Sean Benschop ...

A backhoe operator had a right to be on train tracks periodically on the weekend an Amtrak train slammed into it, killing the operator and a supervisor, federal crash investigators said Monday. The ...

ELLENSBURG – Fossil remains of a mammoth have been found near Yakima – unearthed by a backhoe operator building a private road – and scientists are hoping the find will be a largely intact fossil ...

ST. PETER, Minn. (WCCO) -- Authorities said an operator of a backhoe that fell into a creek while clearing ice jams between St. Peter and Mankato is presumed dead. Michael Struck, 39, was a nine-year ...

The blood pressure of the man who claimed to have driven the backhoe to the site of the 2009 massacre in Maguindanao shot up under defense questioning, prompting the abrupt suspension of Wednesday’s ...

A man doing work for Jordan-based S.M. Hentges & Sons was killed Monday, Oct. 22, when a backhoe fell on him near the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. The accident happened around 10 a.m., ...