With an estimated 140 million Americans predicted to shop this past weekend, retailers bolstered security, deployed Segway patrols and put on live music to distract shoppers and avoid the deal-hunting scrums that can foster Black Friday tramplings. Malls beefed up …
A Metro-North Railroad train derailed in New York’s Bronx borough early today, killing four and injuring 63, adding to the rail line’s year of accidents. Yesterday’s accident in the Riverdale section of the Bronx left red and silver railcars on …
The National Football League should expect more injury-related lawsuits from former players, according to the executive director of the players’ union. “Reality will dictate that it’s never really the end of lawsuits,” DeMaurice Smith, executive director of the NFL Players …
A Eugene woman whose husband killed the couple’s son and himself has sued the dentist who prescribed her husband a nicotine-cessation drug and the hospital that determined he was not a danger to himself or others two days before the …
Students at Harvard University are getting a lesson about the Alabama tornado outbreak of 2011. Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox will speak at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government on Wednesday. Maddox will discuss the city’s response to the massive EF-4 twister …
The insurance industry hopes a 21,000-square-foot lab in rural South Carolina can help revolutionize the way homes are built and stem the cost of Mother Nature’s disasters. Officials at the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety say the wake …
Maine communities are criticizing new maps proposed by the federal government that show future flooding risks near the state’s coast that could impact what kind of insurance property owners must buy. The Flood Insurance Rate Maps released earlier this month …
Indiana University is creating a plan to seek federal aid to “disaster proof” its Bloomington, Indianapolis and regional campuses. A goal of the plan is to allow the university to request Federal Emergency Management Agency funds directly instead of going …
An Alaska man has been charged with driving a stolen pickup and damaging a gravel runway at the community’s airport. The incident ended with Andrew Panamarioff, 21, driving off a 40-foot drop, destroying the stolen truck and seeking medical help, …
Scientists at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory have a new project in the works that aims to better predict the intensity of storm surges on the Chesapeake Bay, Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Coast. …