Nearly 2 million Summer Infant video baby monitors were recalled Friday after being linked to the strangulation deaths of two infants. The Consumer Product Safety Commission says the electrical cords on the monitors can be dangerous for babies if placed …
Sen. Charles Schumer of New York warned on Sunday that national air safety regulations proposed after a Buffalo airliner crash two years ago are being watered down in Washington. Schumer told The Associated Press he will call on the Federal …
The parents of a Pennsylvania woman who died shortly after attending a “Polar Bear Plunge” charity event in southern New Jersey two years ago have sued the city where it was held and the group that organized it. Also among …
The cost of flood control in North Dakota’s Devils Lake region has surpassed $1 billion, but the worst could be yet to come this spring if forecast predictions of rises in the lake’s level prove accurate, cautions Paul Todhunter, University …
Missouri lawmakers have endorsed a bill that lets homeowners choose whether to install fire sprinklers in their homes. House members voted 149-9 to approve House Bill 46, which would bar local governments from requiring residential sprinklers. State law currently prevents …
The city of Cleveland, Ohio, had just five fire fatalities in 2010, the lowest number in more than a century. Cleveland Fire Chief Paul Stubbs says the deaths came in a year when city received more than 60,000 fire alarm …
California Attorney General Kamala Harris has reported that Martin Vasquez, 43, one of the ringleaders of a million-dollar Southern California car theft ring, has been arraigned in Los Angeles Superior Court. All three men named in a complaint filed last …
A thunderous gas explosion devastated a rowhouse neighborhood, killing five people, and suspicion fell on an 83-year-old cast-iron gas main. The fiery blast was the latest natural-gas disaster to raise questions about the safety of the nation’s aging, 2.5-million-mile network …
Vermont firefighters say no one was hurt in a Colchester fire, but a home on Red Rock Road was destroyed. Firefighters were called to the home at about 6:30 a.m. Wednesday and they struggled to find water they could use …
Connecticut agriculture officials say more than 300 buildings on about 100 farms have partially or totally collapsed due to heavy snow and ice, more than double a previous estimate last week. The buildings include barns, greenhouses, sheds and fabric-covered hoop …