Sony has hired outside investigators to help clean its networks and catch the people behind a massive breach that exposed the personal data of more than 100 million video game users. The Japanese electronics giant has retained a team from …
An Anne Arundel County crossing guard is suffering from life-threatening injuries after being struck by a school bus in Glen Burnie. County Fire Department spokesman Lt. Cliff Kooser said the 40-year-old woman was taken to a Baltimore hospital in serious …
An assisted living center has been cited with 17 safety and health violations after a nurse practitioner allegedly was hurt in a needle stick incident. Paradise Park Assisted Living center in Lake Zurich was cited by the U.S. Occupational Safety …
An Illinois company is recalling pet chews made of pig’s ears because they could be contaminated with salmonella. One illness, to a dog in Missouri, has been linked to the chews, called Pig Ears for Pet Treats. The product is …
A preliminary study of an asbestos-plagued Montana town indicates health dangers remain in some areas already addressed in a federal cleanup that, so far, has cost more than $370 million. Tuesday’s release of a long-awaited draft toxicity study for the …
Delta Sigma Phi says it will rebuild a fraternity house at Illinois State University in Normal, Ill., that was destroyed by fire last month. Mark Zappa is a fraternity brother who manages the building for the fraternity’s national group. Zappa …
Wildfires that ravaged parts of Texas in April caused at least $20.4 million in agricultural losses, destroying fences, buildings and grazing pastures, and killing livestock. A report released by the Texas Agrilife Extension Service said loss estimates for April were …
A judge has signed an order that awards the former Dogpatch USA amusement park in north Arkansas to the rider of an all-terrain vehicle who was injured on the property. Circuit Judge Shawn Womack ruled that the property is to …
A federal anti-discrimination agency says a psychiatric in-patient treatment center has agreed to pay $87,500 to settle a lawsuit claiming retaliation was the motive for firing four employees. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission announced the …
A southwest Kansas school district has a new multipurpose building designed to resist the power of tornadoes. The Fowler district said the building is a tornado-resistant monolithic dome. The steel-reinforced, concrete building will house a computer lab, band room, gym …