Labor Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis announced a final rule to strengthen safety in the nation’s most dangerous mines. Solis said that the rule, which revises the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s pattern of violations regulation, seeks to ensure …
Dry weather should continue through at least the end of January in the drought-stricken U.S. Plains and a blast of Arctic cold air in the Midwest early next week poses a threat to unprotected livestock and possibly some wheat, an …
A man who received multiple injuries while being arrested by two former Chattanooga, Tenn., city police officers has filed a $50 million lawsuit. Attorney Robin Flores told the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the lobby floor at the Salvation Army building …
A California study shows drivers’ licenses for illegal immigrants would make streets safer. The Department of Motor Vehicles report says unlicensed drivers in the state, most of them illegal immigrants are nearly three times likely to cause a deadly crash. …
Seven years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, inspectors taking the first-ever inventory of flood control systems overseen by the U.S. government have found hundreds of structures at risk of failing and endangering people and property. Levees deemed in unacceptable …
Prosecutors say a series of robberies by a suspect called the “fake beard robber” cost stores in Hampton Roads, Va., more than $47,000. A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted 38-year-old Ronald Wayne Carr of Newport News on charges of …
The main battery beneath the cockpit of the Boeing 787 forced to make an emergency landing in Japan was swollen from overheating, a safety official said Thursday, as aviation regulators worldwide joined the U.S. and Japan in grounding the technologically …
Lithium batteries that can leak corrosive fluid and start fires have emerged as the chief safety concern involving Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner, a problem that apparently is far more serious than company officials acknowledged less than a week ago. The Federal …
A Leelanau County, Mich., jury has awarded $650,000 to a teenager whose leg was crushed in a cherry orchard accident two summers ago. Colton Brooks was 17 when he lost control of the cherry catcher he was operating on July …
Vermont State Police and tourism and ski industry officials are trying to come up with a plan to deal with skiers who ignore warning signs and get lost in the woods. In the last several weeks, first responders have had …