Hobbs Bonded Fiber Inc.’s company facility in Waco was cited with 29 serious violations by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Proposed penalties total $161,100. Violations include: failing to develop and implement a respiratory program …
Wildfires that devastated East and Southeast Texas last week not only destroyed homes but also millions of cubic feet of forest timber, authorities said. According to the Texas Forest Service, a fire in Grimes County that burned 5,280 acres, 30 …
Six people are injured after a horse leaves the track and jumps into a crowd of spectators during a Hispanic rodeo in southeast Kansas City. Police say none of the injuries were serious after the incident shortly before 4 p.m. …
A judge has ruled that the maker of tear gas used in a 2006 Jackson police raid must pay $1.1 million to five children of a woman who died after inhaling the fumes. Hinds County Circuit Judge Winston Kidd ruled …
An Indiana high school basketball standout who survived a plane crash that killed his father and stepmother is in a drug-induced coma as doctors monitor the badly injured 16-year-old’s brain swelling, his father’s business partner said Sunday. Austin Hatch suffered …
Hollywood actor and Minot N.D., native Josh Duhamel has been named honorary chairman of a fund set up for the city’s flood recovery. In a statement, Duhamel said he grew up in Minot and his sister and her family lost …
A berm holding the flooded Missouri River back from a Nebraska nuclear power station collapsed early Sunday, but federal regulators said they were monitoring the situation and there was no danger. The Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station shut down in early …
$10,000 has been donated to a memorial fund honoring two Louisiana investigators who were killed in the line of duty June 7 by the International Association of Special Investigation Units (IASIU). Louisiana Insurance Department investigators, Rhett Jeansonne and Kim Sledge, …
A member of a publicity-seeking hacker group that sabotaged websites over the past two months and has announced it is dissolving itself says his group wasn’t disbanding under pressure from the FBI or enemy hackers. “We’re not quitting because we’re …
A wave of pharmacy robberies is sweeping the United States as desperate addicts and ruthless dealers turn to violence to feed the nation’s growing hunger for narcotic painkillers. From Redmond, Washington state, to St. Augustine, Florida, criminals are holding pharmacists …