The California Highway Patrol says it’s seeking criminal charges against a trucking company over a poorly maintained fuel tanker that burst into flames on a Los Angeles County freeway in December. The fire burned an overpass so badly it had …
A yellowfin tuna product used to make dishes like sushi and sashimi sold at restaurants and grocery stores has been linked with an outbreak of salmonella that has sickened more than 100 people in 20 states and the District of …
A California weightlifter says he accidentally shot himself by dropping a dumbbell on a bullet. The man was wounded in the shoulder. He told Modesto police officers he was lifting dumbbells in his home Wednesday night when he dropped one …
State investigators have determined that a natural gas utility committed safety violations before an explosion that destroyed a southern Indiana home and injured six people. The state Pipeline Safety Division’s review found crews for a subsidiary of Evansville-based Vectren Corp. …
The Governor’s Highway Safety Program says state and local police across North Carolina caught nearly 13,500 lead-footed drivers during a weeklong effort to reduce speeding. Program director Becky Wallace said Thursday that police recorded more than 39,000 traffic and criminal …
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has declared a state of emergency in 12 counties following storms that included a tornado that’s blamed for the deaths of five people in Woodward. Fallin toured the Woodward area by helicopter on Sunday and said …
Dole Food Co. said that its fresh vegetables division is recalling 756 cases of bagged salad, because they could be contaminated with salmonella. The bags of Seven Lettuces salad are stamped with a use-by date of April 11, 2012, UPC …
Investigators are trying to determine the cause of a fire at an automobile dealership that damaged nine cars and caused major losses. The damage from the fire Thursday at Bozarth-Miller Chevrolet Buick was estimated at hundreds of thousands of dollars. …
State foresters are hoping that recent rains will limit the 2012 wildfire risk in East Texas, where drought factored in several disastrous fires last year. Mark Stanford is associate director of forest resource protection for the Texas Forest Service. He …
Ohio’s attorney general says a man has been charged in southwest Ohio with stealing from at least nine storm victims in Ohio and Kentucky by taking their money to repair storm damage and not doing the work. Ohio Attorney General …