Carnival Cruise Lines says it is cancelling another 12 voyages for the disabled ship that is being towed to Alabama after an engine room fire left it powerless at sea. The cruises aboard the Triumph were to take place from …
Just eight of the 1,300 insurance companies doing business in California have holdings in Iran’s energy, military and nuclear industries, state Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones said Wednesday, down from 50 in 2009 when the department began publicly naming them. The …
Government investigators said Wednesday a decades-old pipe that leaked and fed a massive fire at a Chevron refinery in California was corroded, and the company knew it should have been replaced. The report issued by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board …
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved legislation Tuesday that would provide liability protection for Oklahoma’s agritourism professionals. Under Senate Bill 931, by Sen. Ron Justice and Rep. Scott Biggs, agritourism professionals would not be liable for any participant injuries or deaths …
Superstorm Sandy was the deadliest hurricane in the northeastern U.S. in 40 years and the second-costliest in the nation’s history, according to a report released Tuesday. The storm’s effects reached far and wide, according to the National Hurricane Center report. …
The latest proposal to again make helmet use mandatory for all Maine motorcyclists was couched Tuesday by supporters as a public safety issue and by opponents as a matter of personal freedom. Medical groups joined brain injury survivors and others …
Federal authorities are investigating a series of small fires that were apparently set at a $216 million residential complex under construction at Temple University. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives says it’s investigating the blazes at Morgan Hall …
Gov. Lincoln Chafee says teams of federal, state and local officials have begun assessing damage across Rhode Island caused by the blizzard. Chafee says the four teams began working Tuesday on compiling a preliminary disaster assessment that will be used …
An Albanian appeals court on Wednesday reduced sentences for several top defendants convicted in a deadly ammunition factory blast and acquitted one defendant. The decision was met with dismay by relatives of the deceased. The explosion at Gerdec near Tirana …
Fired Minnesota Senate aide Michael Brodkorb faces drunken driving and other charges after a January crash that left him injured, a city attorney said Wednesday. Lilydale City Attorney Thomas Lehmann said he filed a criminal complaint charging Brodkorb with four …