State officials are still investigating the causes behind wind-swept fires that burned last year in a number of Detroit neighborhoods, and the response by a city utility to reports of power outages and downed wires. The Michigan Public Service Commission, …
Irvine, California, September 2011 – The Insco Dico Group announced that Steve Murray, Regional Vice President, now oversees a significant portion of their nationwide branch network. In addition the offices under his current management; St. Petersburg, Atlanta, Charleston, Baltimore and …
A Hillsborough County Sheriff’s deputy was injured in an altercation with a man who tried to steal a pickup truck from a witness at the scene of a crash that killed two people. Authorities say 20-year-old Colby Wade Cardoso stopped …
The Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Seattle is replacing 300 glass panels on its high-rise condo balconies after broken glass rained down on the street below for the third time in a year. The Seattle Times reports no one was …
Researchers in Austin are testing new technology that could predict flash floods days in advance. The project by engineering researchers at the University of Texas and IBM is designed to monitor thousands of miles of rivers and predict flash flooding …
Heavy rains and mudslides from powerful Typhoon Talas killed at least 15 people in Japan as the storm moved northward Sunday past the country’s western coast. At least 43 others are missing, local media said. Evacuation orders and advisories were …
Three men were injured when the metal balcony of a third-floor apartment gave way beneath them at a North Texas complex. The incident happened early Saturday at The Grove, a recently opened Denton apartment complex marketed largely to students from …
Honda Motor Co. says it will recall a total of 962,000 cars worldwide to fix power windows and computer systems. Honda will recall 936,000 units of the Fit subcompact, CR-V crossover and Fit Aria in North America, Asia, Europe and …
Strong winds on Monday fanned a fast-moving wildfire that was ignited by a deadly plane crash, forcing residents to flee and threatening 650 homes in this mountain community. The fire, which destroyed at least one house after the single-engine Cessna …
Driving along the back roads of Bertie County, it’s hard sometimes to tell one disaster’s damage from another. That huge old tree, its limbs chopped and stacked after falling across a road, was definitely toppled by Hurricane Irene. But what …