Damage is estimated at a half-million dollars after lightning sparked a blaze at a Vail Valley, Colo., home. No injuries were reported in the fire that broke out on August 16, 2008. Eagle River Fire Protection District Chief Charlie Moore …
Eighteen hospitals in California were fined for state health code violations, including leaving surgical instruments inside patients and causing the death of one patient by improperly inserting an intravenous catheter. The fines follow investigations from the California Department of Public …
More than 250 residents and tourists have evacuated an American Indian village in a remote, scenic offshoot of the Grand Canyon after weekend flooding that wrecked trails and nearly washed away some river rafters in the rugged gorge. Helicopters on …
The New Mexico Supreme Court has ruled that contractual prohibitions on class actions for small consumer claims violates public policy and is therefore unenforceable. According to Robert Fiser, individually and as a representative of a class of persons within the …
As of 8 a.m. the National Weather Service said Tropical Storm Fay was centered near Cape Canaveral and headed slowly in a northerly direction. A tropical storm warning remains in effect from north of Jupiter Inlet, Florida, northward to Altamaha …
Tennessee investigators believe a weekend house fire in which five children and two adults died was an accident, but they don’t know how it started, the Memphis Fire Department said. “Sometimes when you have that amount of fire, you can’t …
Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch announced that cleanup of up to 600 housing units contaminated by lead paint is now going out to bid and said the work would target properties in poorer neighborhoods of the state and should …
Tennessee authorities cut open a slain bear and found a Florida man’s shoe lost while fighting off a bear that attacked his 8-year-old son in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The footwear was discovered in the black bear’s stomach …
Wilshire Insurance and Innovative Value Agency, based in Fayetteville, announced that their North Carolina segmented private passenger automobile program will now be available on the Jenesis Agency Management system quote control rating feature. IVA — conducting business in North Carolina …
Residential sprinklers can be effective in putting out fires caused by dry Christmas trees, according to federal safety officials. The United States Fire Administration and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have completed a report, Impact of a Residential …