MOKPO, South Korea — A ferry carrying 462 people, mostly high school students on an overnight trip to a tourist island, sank off South Korea’s southern coast on Wednesday, leaving more than 280 people ...

As the ferry sank, some crew members gave their lifejackets to passengers. One refused to leave until she shepherded students off the ship, and was later found dead. Others worked from rescue boats to ...

SEOUL, South Korea -- Thousands of South Korean police officers stormed a church compound Wednesday in their hunt for a fugitive billionaire businessman over April's ferry sinking that left more than ...

BEIJING — Hopes had dimmed Wednesday that the nearly 300 missing passengers who were trapped aboard a sunken ferry had survived after divers spent hours searching the vessel and had yet to find anyone ...

For more than 40 minutes as their ship foundered last Wednesday, crew members of the South Korean ferry Sewol spoke with local maritime traffic services about a possible rescue. The conversation ...

new video loaded: One person found dead in sinking South Korean ferry - coast guard One person has been found dead in a South Korean ferry that is sinking off the southwest coast. Sarah Toms reports.

Cellphone video emerged from the South Korean ferry disaster on Thursday, as the president of the company that runs the ferry ...