Federal safety investigators are going over the heads of aviation regulators by urging leading helicopter manufacturers to install so-called black boxes that would help determine the cause of crashes like the one that killed former NBA star Kobe Bryant.

Investigators have started studying the cockpit voice recorder of the crashed Ethiopian Airlines jet. 

The Washoe County Recorder's Office announced a new application which allows anyone who was married in Washoe County to have access to their marriage license online.

A duck boat that sank in southern Missouri, killing 17 people aboard, has been raised.

National Transportation Safety Board investigators have recovered the event recorder from the train that crashed into a rail station in New Jersey.

Search crews have recovered the "black box" from the wreckage of the freighter El Faro that sank near the Bahamas during Hurricane Joaquin.

Federal investigators say they have found the missing data recorder for the sunken cargo ship El Faro. The 790-foot freighter sank last October after losing propulsion while traveling between Jacksonville and San Juan, Puerto Rico. 

German prosecutors say the co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 appears to have researched suicide methods and cockpit door security in the days before the plane crashed last week.

French prosecutors say the second black box recorder from the Germanwings jet crash in the French Alps has been found.