Federal regulators say a Florida company has been marketing an untested inhaled formula as a flu remedy in violation of drug safety regulations. The Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission issued a warning letter to Flu and …
Two boulders dislodged during heavy rain tumbled about 20 feet down a Kalihi Valley hillside, damaging a home and narrowly missing four people sleeping inside. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser says emergency personnel got a call from the home’s residents on Monday …
State insurance regulators have rejected a request by State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. to raise homeowners’ rates by 16.6 percent. The rate revision would have affected more than 300,000 policyholders and generated an estimated $71.2 million in additional premiums …
Minnesota lawmakers plan to consider new safety requirements for the state’s thousands of home day care providers, including posting providers’ inspection records online for parents to peruse. State regulators proposed the new safety measures in response to an increase in …
Jason O. Klein Coshocton County pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud after the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) received two complaints about him on its anonymous fraud hotline. Klein appeared before Judge Pollitt in the Franklin County Municipal Court …
Police in eastern Kentucky say copper thieves have been cutting power lines and creating an electrocution risk for themselves and anyone walking near the poles. Letcher County Sheriff Danny Webb told The Mountain Eagle that thieves have taken neutral conductor …
To Sue Bonham, it was as if the world were coming to an end: A wall of flame had suddenly engulfed her West Virginia neighborhood. Amid a deafening roar, objects began crashing through her ceiling. Her home began melting around …
A U.S. judge accepted an agreement by BP Plc to plead guilty for its role in the Deepwater Horizon disaster and pay a record $4 billion in criminal penalties for the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. The company …
Toyota Motor Corp will recall nearly 1.3 million cars globally for two separate defects, including 752,000 Corolla and Corolla Matrix vehicles in the United States to fix airbags that could be deployed inadvertently, the automaker said on Wednesday. It is …