A powerful Atlantic storm, named Xynthia, struck along the western coast of Europe Saturday night and most of Sunday, leaving at least 50 people dead in its wake. The storm packed sustained winds over 140 kmh (87.5 mph) as well …
One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck the central coast of Chile early Saturday morning, February 27. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) measured the magnitude at 8.8 with severe “shaking intensity” extending nearly 500 kms (app. 300 miles) from …
A U.S. congressional panel has found evidence Toyota routinely withheld company records it should have turned over in court and settled personal injury cases to avoid revealing key engineering data dubbed the “Books of Knowledge,” the panel’s chairman said Friday. …
A financial firm that lost more than 650 employees in the Sept. 11 terror attacks says it also took a $1 billion financial hit. Cantor Fitzgerald said in a recent in a court filing that it estimates that it suffered …
It’s been nearly five years since carnival operator Frank Sutton bit into a chicken sandwich at a McDonald’s at a truck stop in Virginia. The legal world is still dealing with the ramifications. In February month, a federal appeals court …
Emergency management officials say the Pittsburgh region will face major flooding in the coming weeks as record-breaking amounts of snow begin to thaw. Allegheny County Emergency Services Chief Bob Full said at a meeting in Sharpsburg on Friday that “the …
Authorities say two men are seriously injured after falling 30 feet from a construction site in Washington, D.C. Fire department spokesman Pete Piringer says officials believe a wind gust shook the scaffolding around the Safeway store on Wisconsin Avenue in …
Delaware fire officials have charged a Pennsylvania business owner with setting fire to one of his own ice cream trucks. Officials with the Delaware fire marshal’s office arrested Brahin Bethea of Chester, Pa., on Thursday and charged him with second-degree …