Highway safety officials say traffic deaths are down in Maine. The Maine Bureau of Highway Safety says 42 people have died on Maine roads so far this year. There were 53 deaths at this time last year. But officials caution …
The dangers of distracted driving have been widely reported, but few consider distracted crossing of streets and roads to be a major safety risk in this country. According to the Liberty Mutual Insurance Pedestrian Safety Survey, 60 percent of pedestrians …
Hungary was set to contain the Danube river from overflowing in Budapest while the economic toll grew in eastern Germany, where thousands of people have been forced to evacuate along the Elbe River. Hungarian authorities are “in control” of the …
Federal investigators say a Union Pacific freight train involved in a collision with another freight train had a signal to stop at the rail intersection where the crash occurred in southeast Missouri. The May 25 accident occurred when the UP …
Like most industries, the workers’ compensation industry has hurdles that challenge growth and operational effectiveness. Now, a number of workers’ comp executives have come together to produce an operational assessment tool to help industry claims leaders. The research will focus …
A New Mexico man will serve five years in prison for torching the landmark Hitching Post Inn in Cheyenne, Wyo., a federal judge ordered Thursday. U.S. District Judge Nancy Freudenthal also ordered Robert Rodriguez of Albuquerque to serve three years …
Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes in a region of eastern Germany where the Elbe river has flooded and burst through a dam, officials said Sunday. At least 21 people have been killed by a week of …
A heavy equipment operator who is accused of being high on marijuana when a building collapsed onto a thrift store, killing six people in the U.S., is in custody after surrendering to face charges in the deaths, police said. Sean …
Federal transportation regulators ordered a discount bus service between Boston and New York to shut down Thursday, saying its vehicles and drivers were a threat to public safety and that it once dispatched a bus with a large hole in …
Authorities say gusty winds sweeping through the Denver, Colo., area Saturday caused several hot air balloon crashes that injured at least five people. The four unrelated accidents all happened within miles and about an hour of each other. In rural …