Asbestos-related diseases have been falling for a decade, but warnings from a pair of U.S. insurance giants about new claims raise questions about the industry’s ability to put the scourge behind it. While medical evidence suggests fewer new cases of …
Law enforcement officials in Racine are investigating whether a serial arsonist is behind a rash of suspicious fires on the south side of the city and in Mount Pleasant. The Journal Times of Racine reports that since June 6, police …
A new study of tornado destruction in Tuscaloosa found that relatively minor changes in construction – things like better shingles, more anchors and thicker vinyl siding – could have prevented much of the damage to houses on the fringes of …
Letters written by Helen Keller. Forty-thousand photographic negatives of John F. Kennedy taken by the president’s personal cameraman. Sculptures by Alexander Calder and Auguste Rodin. The 1921 agreement that created the agency that built the World Trade Center. Besides ending …
Police say a motorist who plummeted off a San Diego freeway overpass during the evening rush-hour may have been attempting suicide. Officer Dave Gibson says the car crashed through a guardrail Friday and landed in the southbound lanes of Interstate …
A Maricopa County pilot program is giving some restaurants more responsibility for their own food safety and cutting back on the number of full inspections of those eateries. County officials say the program is getting into full swing and is …
The newly renovated Georgia Theatre begins a series of grand opening concerts Monday, with reminders of a devastating 2009 fire still visible in the charred bricks and the blackened front doors. Owner Wilmot Greene said workers managed to save some …
H-E-B issued has a voluntary recall of four sizes of H-E-B brand cottage cheese, dip, yogurt and sour cream over concern that foreign material may have made its way into the product. The statement issued Thursday by the San Antonio-based …
A St. Louis jury has awarded $320 million in punitive damages in the lawsuit against the former owners of a lead smelter in the eastern Missouri town of Herculaneum. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the jury awarded the punitive damages …
Bank of America and two former executives lost a bid on Friday to dismiss securities fraud claims alleging they misled investors about the bank’s 2008 acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co. U.S. District Court Judge P. Kevin Castel ruled that …