The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited five companies for serious safety and health violations following a combustible dust flash fire that released hydrogen sulfide at the Eustace Gas Processing Plant in Eustace, Texas, and …
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Baton Rouge, La.-based Lion Copolymer LLC for one willful, 19 serious and three other-than-serious violations for exposing workers to possible fires, explosions and other hazardous conditions. Proposed penalties …
A West Texas family is dealing with the loss of their home after one fire slightly damaged the place and then a blaze the next day destroyed the house. Casey and Jamie Jones of Brownwood and their five children were …
The New Jersey Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal from ExxonMobil over $7 million awarded to a woman who claimed she got cancer from her husband’s asbestos-laden clothes. A jury in 2008 found Bonnie Anderson had contracted mesothelioma from washing …
Police say a former Kiln man is accused of defrauding a Biloxi resident of more than $127,000 in what started as home-repair fraud and escalated to an investment scam. The Sun Herald reports the arrest Wednesday of 44-year-old Ernest Christopher …
The parents of a 13-year-old Tampa girl who hanged herself after enduring classmates’ taunts over a revealing photo texted to a boy have sued the school district. The parents of Hope Witsell filed a federal lawsuit this week, accusing the …
Under pressure from government safety regulators, Ford Motor Company is expanding a recall of the popular F-150 pickup truck to include nearly 1.2 million vehicles that may have defective air bags. The additional recall, announced Thursday by the National Highway …
The Applebee’s restaurant chain publicly apologized Wednesday after a 15-month-old boy was served alcohol mislabeled as apple juice when his family dined at one of its Detroit-area restaurants, but it questioned conflicting reports about the child’s blood alcohol level. The …
A California woman is suing a popular Internet dating site, saying she was sexually assaulted by a man she met on Match.com. Attorney Mark L. Webb says he filed the Los Angeles Superior Court civil lawsuit on Wednesday on behalf …