Firefighters in northern Kentucky have been responding to a rash of mulch fires. Officials say unusually warm and dry weather has created conditions in which mulch catches fire easily – usually from carelessly discarded cigarette butts. The Kentucky Enquirer reported …
Investigators are asking the public for help in solving more than 40 suspicious fires in Huntington, W.Va. Assistant state fire marshal Reed Cook says tipsters should provide license plate numbers, clothing descriptions, names or other details that could help investigators. …
An earthquake far off the Oregon coast has not caused any reported damage. The 5.9-magnitude quake was reported at about 3:40 p.m. on Wednesday about 160 miles west-northwest of Bandon, Ore. Doug Gibbons of the U.S. Geological Survey says the …
A strong earthquake struck off the coast of Mexico on Thursday, waking up residents living near the Gulf of California, only hours after a separate temblor swayed tall buildings in Mexico City, causing evacuations. Authorities said neither quake left major …
Rain and Hail, the agricultural insurance division of the ACE Group headquartered in Johnston, Iowa, announced several promotions among its executive management team. Bob Haney has been appointed chairman. Through his nearly thirty-year career with the company, Haney has held …
More than 200 years after Benjamin Franklin declared the only things certain in life are death and taxes, Canadian researchers have discovered a grimmer connection: U.S. auto fatalities spike on the deadline day for filing income tax returns. The number …
Car owners with warranty claims faced a setback on Wednesday when a federal appeals court withdrew a controversial ruling that had struck down a requirement for arbitration, saying it would now wait for the California Supreme Court to decide on …
U.S. movie studios, drug manufacturers and other companies that depend heavily on copyrights, patents and trademarks to protect their creative works support 40 million jobs, or about 28 percent of the U.S. workforce, a U.S. report said on Wednesday. “Today …
Officials say a bad wood stove connection caused a fire in Canterbury, Conn., that destroyed a three-story home built in the 1700s. Tuesday morning’s fire leveled the home on North Canterbury Road and drew responses from five fire departments. No …
The co-owner of a Big Island zip line course where a construction worker was killed while testing the attraction says the business will remain closed until it’s completely safe. The KapohoKine Adventures course has been closed since the Sept. 21 …