Officials say the U.S. government has opened a criminal investigation into the salmonella outbreak. Stephen Sundlof, head of the Food and Drug Administration’s food safety center, said Friday the Justice Department will investigate possible criminal violations by the peanut processing …
U.S. makers of toys and other children’s products will get an extra year to comply with certain lead and chemical testing rules. Members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission voted unanimously Friday to hold off on a Feb. 10 deadline …
A serial home arsonist, an elected judge who made phony auto injury claims, and dentists who did worthless root canals on children were among the nine swindlers elected to the Insurance Hall of Shame. The Coalition Against Insurance Fraud’s Hall …
The Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle and a New York-based Catholic order have agreed to pay $14.2 million to two dozen men who were sexually abused at a Kent orphanage in the 1950s and ’60s. The men attended the Briscoe Memorial …
A small earthquake has been recorded near Carney, Okla., in northwest Lincoln County. The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake struck at 6:57 p.m. Jan. 29 with a preliminary magnitude of 2.4. A magnitude 2.5 to 3 quake is generally …
Damage assessment teams headed to north Arkansas as warm winds from the Plains melted away the ice that encapsulated trees and cut power to thousands in late January. “Every day is a blessing now,” said Travis Boyd, emergency management director …
Local and federal authorities are investigating the theft of personal information of 17,000 people who stayed at San Antonio,Texas, hotels. Credit card receipts were stolen from at least three hotels, then used in an identity theft scam to make fraudulent …
UPS has been ordered to pay $10,000 to a Jersey City, New Jersey man denied a job because his Rastafarian religious beliefs forbid him from shaving his 1-inch beard. The verdict was handed down Friday by a federal jury in …
The Rhode Island town where a nightclub fire killed 100 people in 2003 says it needs help from the state to pay a $10 million settlement to survivors of the blaze and relatives of those who died. West Warwick plans …
A 33-year-old suspect has been indicted on an arson charge arising from an early morning fire in September that left much of downtown Milo, Maine in ruins. Officials said the indictment Thursday against Christopher Miliano follows a lengthy investigation by …