Late last month, a construction worker on site near the Melbourne, Australia, airport was walking by a huge mud pit when he ...

He caught a mucky break. A Long Island hiker who sank into a freezing, chest-high mud pit while chasing after his dog last week thanked the cop who rescued him at a heartfelt reunion Wednesday ...

Necessity is the mother of invention, as they say, and some Russians have created an ingenious though not entirely elegant solution for traversing these mud pits. Called an On-Ground Ferry ...