State regulators have fined a south-central Washington lumber company more than $244,000 for dozens of safety and health violations after a worker got caught in machinery and was seriously hurt. The SDS Lumber Co. of Bingen has appealed the citations …
Police in Anne Arundel County are teaming with the Maryland Transportation Authority police to conduct commercial vehicle safety inspections to help keep unsafe vehicles off the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. On Tuesday, both agencies began the joint initiative. Transportation Authority Officer …
Saco’s police chief says insurance money will only cover the cost of replacing one of the town’s three police cruisers totaled when a Massachusetts woman rammed them during a chase in July. Chief Bradley Paul told the city council Monday …
Surging waters in Colorado swept away barns, silos and fences and left houses covered in mud in this northern agricultural town. The flood waters were so powerful they uprooted irrigation pipes and spread them around the fields here, leaving lakes …
Real estate developer Larry Silverstein can’t recoup any of the $1.2 billion recovered by World Trade Center insurers in settlements with airlines and airport security companies over the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack that destroyed the office complex, a judge …
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said on Wednesday that it is devoting significant resources to help smaller, community lenders fend off cyber attacks, after hackers attacked many major U.S. banks last year. Community banks often rely on …
n 1983, a group of concerned citizens led by Pascagoula, Miss., pediatrician Dr. Clifford Seyler decided to do what they could to reduce injuries, sometimes fatal, suffered each year by children. The result was an organization called CANDY, also known …
Honda Motor Co said it is recalling about 405,400 vehicles, including the Odyssey minivan in the United States and three other countries, due to a glitch in the computer chip used in the airbag system. Some 342,000 Honda Odysseys from …
The massive fire that destroyed part of a Jersey shore boardwalk and dozens of businesses began accidentally in wiring damaged in Superstorm Sandy, and should prompt coastal property owners to inspect their own equipment for similar danger, officials said Tuesday. …
A workplace safety inspection prompted by the death of an Indianapolis trash collector has resulted in 10 violations and proposed fines of $80,000 for the city’s public works department. The Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration is proposing the largest …