Hurricane Irene buffeted Puerto Rico with winds and torrential rain Monday, knocking out power and downing trees as it churned westward on a track that will threaten Florida by the end of the week. Local media in the U.S. Caribbean …
A chartered Boeing 737-200 plane crashed as it was approaching an airport in Canada’s Arctic region, killing 12 people and injuring three, police said. Residents of the tiny hamlet of Resolute Bay in the Arctic territory of Nunavut and soldiers …
A Chinese authority says the local unit of ConocoPhillips has found nine oil spill sources amid intensifying pressure on the company to clean up oil spills in the Bohai Bay. The North China Sea branch of the State Oceanic Administration …
Austin’s housing authority has spent nearly $40,000 over the past year to combat bedbugs in 15 of its 19 facilities. Sylvia Blanco of the agency told the Austin American-Statesman that the authority has been treating the insects since September 2010. …
Prosecutors have charged a former Lincoln Public Schools employee with second-degree arson in a fire that destroyed the district’s office building. Sharon Brewster was charged on Wednesday. A Lancaster County judge set her bond at $1 million. A preliminary hearing …
Three siblings arrested in Colorado following a nationwide crime spree are being identified as the primary suspects in the thefts of two cars in Utah. The Daily Herald of Provo reports 29-year-old Lee Grace Dougherty, 26-year-old Dylan Dougherty Stanley and …
Experts have determined that the February collapse of an under-construction parking garage in San Antonio happened due to lack of grout. Two workers were injured in the University Hospital parking garage accident. Copies of the report, by structural and engineering …
A lawyer for a Vermont teenager accused of hitting a pedestrian with her car while texting says it’ll be tough to prove. Eighteen-year-old Emma Vieira, of Colchester, pleaded not guilty Thursday to grossly negligent operation of a motor vehicle with …
A thick cloud of dust has swallowed Phoenix at sundown three times this summer, covering the city with grit and baffling even longtime residents who can’t remember seeing so many dramatic “haboobs” during a monsoon season. A 1,000-feet-high wall of …
Lawmakers worried a lawsuit by a hunter will prompt landowners to close their lands to hunting and other recreational activities will meet Tuesday to discuss how to tighten New Hampshire’s law protecting landowners from liability. State Rep. Gene Chandler said …