A Vermont firefighter has been accused of setting his own car on fire to defraud his insurance company. Police were called to the fire on Aug. 12 on Route 7 in Brandon. Jeremiah Shaw of Brandon told police he was …
A Toledo councilman says the northwest Ohio city is looking at areas of potential sinkholes to ensure road safety after one large sinkhole swallowed a moving car and briefly trapped the driver. WTOL-TV reports the city council agreed Tuesday to …
An Oklahoma woman and her pet kangaroo have found a new home after battling a city council over her right to keep the animal. Two years after fighting a city council in northeastern Oklahoma over her right to keep a …
Where there’s wildfire, there’s smoke—a lot of it. And those vast, carbon-laden clouds released by burning biomass can play a significant role in climate change. However, not much is known about the different types of particles in wildfire smoke and …
Federal authorities have extended the amount of time New Yorkers can stay in hotels or motels if they can’t return to their homes because of damage from Superstorm Sandy. The Federal Emergency Management Agency said Tuesday officials have approved extending …
Despite the NFL’s $765 million settlement with retired players, there still is no credible scientific evidence that playing football causes Alzheimer’s disease or other neurological disorders, according to Loyola University Medical Center clinical neuropsychologist Christopher Randolph, PhD, who has published …
Billion-dollar flood losses were recorded in China, Russia, Philippines and Pakistan during August, causing an initial combined estimate of $10 billion in economic losses, according to Impact Forecasting’s latest edition of its monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report, which reviews the …
Plaintiffs’ attorneys who brokered a multibillion-dollar settlement with BP following the company’s 2010 Gulf oil spill have asked a federal appeals court to uphold a judge’s approval of the deal. Only a “paltry few objectors” have raised the “narrowest of …
The Hawaii Supreme Court ruled that a party host can be held liable for serving alcohol to a minor who dies from alcohol poisoning, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Wednesday. The unanimous ruling revives a lawsuit by the family of a …
If a monster earthquake struck off Alaska’s coast, tsunami waves would rush toward California, swamping the nation’s largest port complex and causing major economic damage. That’s according to a hypothetical scenario released Wednesday by the U.S. Geological Survey and others …