A jury says Volkswagen isn’t to blame for the injuries suffered by a Vermont man in a 2002 wreck that paralyzed him. The suit stemmed from a Christmas Eve accident in Hanover, New Hampshire, in which a 1999 Jetta driven …
A Maryland family plans to appear in Annapolis to ask state lawmakers to approve a ban on handheld cell phone use and text messaging while driving. Russell Hurd says his 26-year-old daughter Heather was killed last year in Florida when …
Traffic deaths have increased in New Hampshire for three years in a row, though the numbers remain below what the state experienced earlier this decade. According to the state Highway Safety Agency, 137 people died in car crashes in New …
A few weeks after a flock of birds disabled a jetliner and forced it to make an emergency landing in New York City’s Hudson River, Bangor International Airport in Maine has been taking steps to remove ducks that might pose …
Was last Saturday kids’ day on Kansas highways? The Highway Patrol reported two single-vehicle crashes involving underage drivers, landing both youngsters in hospitals. Troopers said a 9-year-old St. George boy rolled a pickup truck Saturday night as he tried to …
State lawmakers are considering new food safety rules in Georgia, where a peanut plant has been linked to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds of people nationwide. The Senate Agriculture Committee is to consider a bill Monday that would …
The U.S. government has increasingly relied on food-safety inspections performed by states, where budgets for inspections in many cases have remained stagnant and where overburdened officials are trained less than their federal counterparts and perform skimpier reviews, an Associated Press …
Ohio continues to log new salmonella cases from the nationwide outbreak linked to peanut butter. The state Department of Health says in an update that 89 cases have been reported in the state, with patients reporting the onset of symptoms …
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has lowered its long-term counterparty credit and senior unsecured debt ratings on Toronto-based specialty insurance provider Kingsway Financial Services Inc. S&P also lowered the debt ratings on Kingsway’s subsidiaries to ‘B’ from ‘BB’, and has …
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has revised its implications to negative from developing on the CreditWatch placement of its ‘A’ long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Fortis Insurance Belgium (FIB). “The negative implications reflect increasing uncertainties about …