A grand jury on Wednesday declined to indict the driver of a float involved in a train collision that killed four U.S. military veterans in a West Texas parade. Dale Andrew Hayden, the driver of the truck pulling the float, …
An arbitrator has ordered the city of Portland to pay more than $1,100 in back wages to two firefighters who were punished after damaging the city’s $3.2 million fireboat. The Maine city revealed the results of the arbitrator’s decision Tuesday. …
Italian police have arrested the driver of the snowmobile that crashed into a ravine during a nighttime outing on a steep ski slope, killing six Russians being pulled behind the vehicle on a sled. Trento prosecutors said Azat Yagafarov, 58, …
Baker High School needs more than $4 million in repairs and upgrades. That’s according to a new report by Baton Rouge, La., engineering consulting firm Volkert Inc. The Baker School Board agreed in August to pay the company $10,000 to …
Two Republican state senators from Oklahoma are visiting Arkansas this week to study that state’s administrative workers’ compensation system. Senate Judiciary Chairman Sen. Anthony Sykes and Sen. Josh Brecheen both were in Arkansas on Wednesday to learn how that state …
With the popping of cables and the snapping of metal, a crane collapsed onto a building under construction near New York’s East River waterfront Wednesday, injuring seven people, three of whom needed to be extricated from underneath the fallen machinery. …
It was supposed to be a thrilling ride down a ski slope inside a giant inflatable ball that is to be one of the symbols of next year’s Winter Olympics; it ended in tragedy for the two Russian men inside. …
Poland is launching a government program to reduce traffic fatalities and improve its horrible road safety record. In 2011, Poland had Europe’s worst road safety statistics, with 110 deaths per 1 million citizens, or almost 4,200 people killed, Interior Minister …
The United States set an off-the-charts heat record in 2012. A brutal combination of a widespread drought and a mostly absent winter pushed the average annual U.S. temperature last year up to 55.32 degrees Fahrenheit (13 Celsius), the government announced …
New York City lawyers say the death of a woman in the 2010 blizzard was “solely an act of God.” Kathleen Thomas died the morning after the Dec. 27, blizzard in Lower Manhattan. According to court documents, after slipping twice …