Nature is pummeling the United States this year with extremes. Unprecedented triple-digit heat and devastating drought. Deadly tornadoes leveling towns. Massive rivers overflowing. A billion-dollar blizzard. And now, unusual hurricane-caused flooding in Vermont. If what’s falling from the sky isn’t …
Cooler temperatures and precipitation on Sunday helped calm a grass fire that destroyed 11 homes and led to the evacuation of many others in southwestern Oklahoma, authorities said. An evacuation order was lifted, allowing residents in several housing additions near …
A painter is dead after backing one step too many on the roof of a Houston school building and falling 40 feet to his death. Spring Branch school district Police Chief Chuck Brawner tells the Houston Chronicle that the man …
The theft of $425 worth of copper managed to inconvenience hundreds of electric customers in northeast Kansas. Officials with Kaw Valley Electric Cooperative say a citizen reported a gate to a power substation open around 8:30 p.m. Thursday. The Topeka …
A Sheboygan woman whose car was totaled after vandals flipped it over says her nightmare turned into a dream when a local car dealer offered her a replacement for $1. Cristina Earls is a 40-year-old single mother of four. She …
Twenty years after the worst industrial accident in North Carolina history, there are signs that progress in worker safety made after the deaths of 25 people in a chicken plant fire is beginning to wane. The Charlotte Observer reported Sunday …
A northern Idaho woman is suing a Salvation Army community center in Coeur d’Alene, saying she suffered injuries and emotional distress after she was tripped by a negligent employee at the facility last year. Sheri Stone filed the lawsuit with …
An Ohio man who missed his weekly work lottery pool while out injured is suing his co-workers for a share of the $99 million jackpot. Edward Hairston, a logistics agent at the KraftMaid company, says that every month for the …
Maine’s highest court will hear arguments on whether a woman’s lawsuit should go forward against a former Catholic priest she says abused her in the early 1970s. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court will hear oral arguments Sept. 13 in Christine …
Connecticut is negotiating with several insurance companies to waive hurricane policy deductibles for coastal homeowners whose properties were damaged or destroyed by Tropical Storm Irene, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Friday. More than 163,000 electric customers in the state remained …