St. Louis, Mo., police are trying to figure out exactly what thieves plan to do with 100-pound blue-glazed grotesque terra cotta theater masks stolen from outside the old Sun Theater on Grandel Square. Fifteen of the giant masks were taken …
A jury has ruled that a southern Indiana fire department must pay $225,000 to the estate of a 75-year-old woman killed when an ambulance hit her car in 2009. The Clark County jury reached the verdict after a trial last …
A new state report shows mixed results when it comes to serious errors, injuries and accidents in Maine hospitals and other health care facilities. The Department of Health and Human Services has required hospitals, surgery centers, kidney centers and intermediate …
A second Oregon lawsuit has been filed this month over an inverted therapy table. The tables allow people to hang upside down, strapped to the flat surface, in hopes of relieving pain. The Eugene Register-Guard reports Donald Walken says in …
Wichita, Kansas, storm chaser Jim Reed was leaving a Chick-fil-A last week when he was stopped by an elderly couple. “Are you the severe weather man?” one asked, seeing his specially marked chase vehicle. They asked about the coming rain …
The number of railroad crossing deaths in Iowa this year already is higher than what is typical for an entire year, but it’s not clear why 2013 is proving deadlier than normal. The Des Moines Register reports that Iowa averages …
According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, the remnants of what was Tropical Storm Flossie are currently northwest of Kauai, the northernmost main island of the Hawaiian chain of islands, moving west-northwest away from the islands at about 15 miles …
BP is digging in for a long legal battle over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Chief Executive Bob Dudley said on Tuesday after compensation costs soared for a second straight quarter. The payouts, the scale of which BP is …
The Mercedes-Benz, a long recognized symbol of luxury and performance, is a favorite among car thieves with taste, according to the latest report by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) that looks at vehicle theft activity within the luxury vehicle …
Less contact during practice could mean a lot less exposure to head injuries for young football players, according to researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and Virginia Tech. Their study of 50 youth-league players ages 9 to 12 – …