The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Pasadena Refining Services Inc. with 21 serious violations for exposing workers to multiple safety and health hazards at the company’s facility in Pasadena, Texas Proposed penalties total $115,650. …
Gov. Mike Beebe has declared two Arkansas counties affected by a tornado and severe storms as state disaster areas. Severe weather on Dec. 31 caused three deaths and eight injuries, along with damage to more than 30 homes and businesses …
A small southern Indiana town expects work to start next spring on a project to prevent flooding similar to that which damaged several homes in 2008. The $725,000 federal grant to the Jackson County town of Medora will pay for …
Two Kanawha County residents who claim their children were hurt playing full-contact football during gym class are suing the county Board of Education. One lawsuit alleges a child broke his leg at McKinley Middle School in 2008. It says an …
Ten police officers used to roam the busy stretch of highway that slices through the tiny northwest Georgia town of Arcade, writing traffic tickets that helped pay for a spacious city complex but also infuriated local businesses and repulsed drivers. …
Some of the United States’ top trading partners are aggressively fighting to stop the Obama administration from treating lithium batteries as hazardous cargo because they say that would disrupt international shipping and cost businesses hundreds of millions of dollars. The …
A ShopRite grocery store in Wilmington, Delaware is recalling store-made ground meat. The New Jersey-based supermarket chain said Friday that ground meat processed at its store in the Christina Crossing shopping center on Wednesday may contain small pieces of black …
The U.S. Geological Survey says a 2.6 magnitude earthquake rattled the New Hampshire Lakes Region this weekend. There were no reports of damage from the quake, which was reported at 11:46 p.m. Sunday. The quake was centered about 15 miles …
Military flights rushed Monday to restock an Australian city before it is cut off by floodwaters that have turned a huge swath of the Outback into a lake, while police confirmed two more deaths in the crisis. Drenching rain that …
A Tampa Bay-area police department is the latest to buy into new technology that uses cameras to scan license plates and checks the numbers against a database of stolen cars and other vehicles used in crimes. Clearwater police said the …