Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov’s son Maxim, who medaled in the U.S. Championships in Wichita, was not on the plane that crashed into the Potomac River Wednesday. He flew home earlier in the week.

The European figure skating championships carried on Thursday in Tallin, Estonia, even as the skating world mourned athletes ...

The crash of an American Airlines jet that collided with an Army helicopter was the latest to strike the sports world in the U.S. and globally.