A Clarendon County jury has awarded $890,000 in damages to a South Carolina man after members of the governing board at his condominium wrongly identified him as a registered sex offender. James E. King thinks the situation stemmed from a …
Government workers had visited a St. Louis, Mo., building at least three times in the eight months before a musician stepped into an open elevator shaft and fell to his death. But the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that a review …
A new survey by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) revealed that nearly half of drivers surveyed say speeding is a problem on our nation’s roads, and one in five drivers surveyed admitted, “I try …
Members of a West Virginia board have decided to gather more industry and labor proposals on so-called proximity detectors before they require mine operators to install the equipment. The Thursday meeting of the Board of Coal Mine Health and Safety …
Federal experts will spend the next two months examining safety compliance and safety culture at a commuter railroad that operated a train that derailed and killed four people this month. The effort will assess a broad range of practices at …
An attorney for the woman found dead in a San Francisco General Hospital stairwell disputed on Saturday a coroner’s report saying her death was probably due to a chemical imbalance related to chronic alcohol abuse. Haig Harris asserted that Lynne …
The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract to build a floodwall on top of the existing Mississippi River levee in Plaquemines Parish, La., from Augusta to Oakville. The project is designed to reduce the risk of riverine flooding …
An Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling could cost the state Department of Public Safety $11 million in refunds to drivers in alcohol-related cases. The court upheld a lower court ruling that said affidavits used in DUI breath tests did not comply …
The Obama administration last year took longer than normal to clear rules ranging from environment protection to food safety, a shift that an advisory body says may have been politically motivated. The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, which reviews …
Two U.S. senators say federal railroad officials lack the funds to properly inspect safety systems at railroads around the country. Sen. Charles Schumer of New York and Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut are holding a news conference Sunday at Grand …