A unit of Quality Bicycle Products is voluntarily recalling approximately 6,500 bicycle handlebar stems because they can crack or break, which could lead riders to fall. Salsa Cycles said that it has received one report of a handlebar stem breaking, …
The manager of a Brooklyn cemetery says 21 gravestones were toppled by snow that was dumped by sanitation department crews. Washington Cemetery manager Marisa Tarantino tells the New York Post that the snow was probably dumped sometime over the New …
BP and its partners made a series of cost-cutting decisions that ultimately contributed to the oil spill that ravaged the Gulf of Mexico coast over the summer, the White House oil spill commission said Wednesday. In its final report on …
Officials say San Diego city and county suffered at least $10 million in damage from December’s storms. The City Council and the county Board of Supervisors declared states of emergency this week, a step toward seeking state and federal funding. …
Illinois state insurance fraud officials have launched an investigation of a southwestern Illinois prison where nearly $10 million in worker’s compensation and paid medical leave have been paid out to more than half the staff over the past three years. …
There has been a drop in unnecessary hospitalizations in California, but state officials say a lack of regular health care shows blacks are being hospitalized too often. Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development director Dr. David Carlisle says reports …
Nearly one out of every five no-fault auto insurance claims closed in the New York City area in 2010 appears to have elements of fraud, according to a new study from the Insurance Research Council (IRC). And as many as …
Indianapolis, Ind.-based property loss adjusting and claims management services provider National Catastrophe Adjusters Inc. announced that it has acquired T.M. Mayfield & Co. of North Carolina. The addition of T.M. Mayfield significantly expands NCA Group’s commercial loss adjusting capabilities and …
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued Speedy Rooter Inc. in South Sioux City, Neb., citations for one willful and five serious violations after two workers who entered a municipal sewer manhole were overcome by …
An official with the Oklahoma Climatological Survey says the number of tornadoes in the state in 2010 was the third-highest since the National Weather Service began keeping records in 1950. Associate State Climatologist Gary McManus says a tornado near Westville …