A Connecticut fire official says a blaze that has destroyed several abandoned cottages on a Stratford beach was obviously set. The fires that burned downed four cottages Sunday hit beach-front cottages on Long Beach, on the Bridgeport-Stratford town line. Bridgeport …
Fire has struck in the Coatesville, Pennsylvania area again, but officials says it’s not believed to be connected to the recent string of arsons in that area. The fire erupted just after midnight Monday in what is believed to be …
A manufacturing company in Branford, Connecticut is facing sentencing over toxic discharges released into the Branford River and Long Island Sound. Officials say Atlantic Wire’s repeated discharges of toxic wastewater between 2005 and early 2008 killed hundreds of crabs. The …
The first round of Vinton, Iowa’s flood-damaged homes are set to be torn down next month. City leaders have approved demolishing the first chunk of homes in the city’s flood buyout program. The spaces now occupied by the 16 uninhabited …
Crews doused a brush fire near Badlands National Park Sunday after it charred an estimated 500 acres about five miles east of Scenic. It started in the north ditch along Highway 44 and spread quickly to the northeast across private …
Forty-four people covered by the Oregon’s workers’ compensation system died on the job during 2008. The new figures were announced today by Oregon OSHA Administrator Michael Wood during his opening remarks of the 2009 Oregon Governor’s Occupational Safety and Health …
A federal appeals court has reversed a lower court ruling against a former Beatrice bank worker who said he lost his job because of his rare voice disorder. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled in a …
Emergency management officials in Fargo and Grand Forks are ordering pumps, topping off levees and planning dikes after forecasters predicted record flooding this spring along the Red River Basin. “The magnitude of the expected flooding has not been seen in …
The damage estimate from last summer’s flooding at the University of Iowa has nearly tripled to $743 million. University officials released the new estimate on Friday. It includes all building and content damage and the costs to relocate building complexes …
Global warming should lift sea levels along the U.S. Northeast nearly twice as fast as global rates this century, putting New York City at risk to damage from hurricanes and winter storm surges, scientists said. “The northeast coast of the …