Jurors have sided with school bus manufacturers in a 2005 Missouri crash that killed two motorists and critically injured two schoolchildren. The Kansas City Star reports that Clay County jurors came to the same conclusion as federal safety officials. Both …
The eastern Wisconsin city of Neenah is considering an ordinance that would require bartenders to show up for work sober – and ban them from drinking on the job. The ordinance would let police hold bartenders accountable if they fail …
An Oregon couple and their landlord are being sued for almost $500,000 for an alleged 2011 attack by the couple’s old dog on a passing pedestrian. But one of the dog’s owners said Harley, the dog, never attacked the woman. …
Damage from a weekend fire at a food ingredient plant in central Wisconsin is estimated at $1 million. Marshfield fire officials say the blaze at Quality Ingredients Corp., was contained to a drying unit inside one of the company’s buildings. …
Several businesses have pledged a total $8 million to help cash-strapped Detroit pay for a new fleet of emergency vehicles including 23 EMS units and 100 police cars to boost public safety and reduce response times, Mayor Dave Bing announced …
Albany, N.Y., mayor Jerry Jennings says it’s time National Grid reviewed the city’s aging underground infrastructure, after the third incidence of exploding manhole covers downtown. Fire officials and National Grid say an underground electrical fire sparked an explosion early Saturday …
A federal engineer examining the lessons from Hurricane Sandy says findings after the October storm closely track the disaster of Hurricane Katrina seven years earlier. John Ingargiola says elevating generators and pumps is a good idea, but enclosing elevated foundations …
Esri announced that the Catastrophe Services Department of the Property Loss Research Bureau (PLRB) has released a mobile version of PLRB Map, a mapping service that provides real-time severe occurrence data and information to members of PLRB, an association of …
Two years after the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan and caused millions of dollars in damage to California coastal communities, the state’s Emergency Management Agency and the California Geological Survey continue to work with their local, state and federal …
Investigators are blaming a 1980s-era computer monitor for a fire that ravaged a Clearfield church this week. The Standard-Examiner reports the old monitor had overheated and sparked the Tuesday afternoon blaze in the Clearfield Community Church library. North Davis District …