The mother of a 16-year-old boy who was paralyzed after breaking two vertebrae during high school wrestling practice has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a Wyoming hospital that treated him. The lawsuit from Melissa Plumley alleges Cheyenne Regional Medical …
Stamford, Conn., firefighters have redoubled their efforts to prevent fires since three sisters and their grandparents died in a Christmas Day house fire in 2011. The Advocate of Stamford reports that Public Safety Director Ted Jankwoski says firefighters have inspected …
Assumption Parish, La., officials say that the levee around the 26-acre Bayou Corne sinkhole has cracked during a wave of underground micro-tremors. The Advocate reports it’s the same area where the earth-and-limestone levee sank a bit and cracks developed in …
Christmas Eve is usually a night of anticipation and excitement, of big-eyed kids wondering what the morning will bring. That same sense of anticipation sparkled in the northern Lake County community of Silver Lake in 1894, when between 160 and …
Kentucky is on track for its lowest number of traffic fatalities in decades. The Courier-Journal reports fewer than 600 fatal crashes had been reported by mid-December. The last time the number was that low was in the 1940s. The newspaper …
The Badwater 135, a sweat-lathered endurance race that runs through the hottest place in the world in the middle of the summer, will be taking a detour in 2014 after Death Valley National Park placed a moratorium on cycling and …
Indiana has submitted an expanded request for federal assistance to help pay the cleanup costs of storm damage in six Indiana counties two weeks after a request to have the hardest-hit county declared a major disaster area was rejected. Gov. …
While residents in Oklahoma are busy cleaning up from a weekend of freezing rain and ice, at least one county in southwest Oklahoma is seeking help to repair damage caused by another wintry onslaught. Comanche County commissioners approved an emergency …
As a second New Year since Superstorm Sandy approaches, many coastal residents are still waiting for New York, New Jersey and New York City to distribute billions of federal dollars that were intended to go directly to people struggling to …
A cave discovered near the source of Indonesia’s massive earthquake-spawned tsunami contains the footprints of past gigantic waves dating up to 7,500 years ago, a rare natural record that suggests the next disaster could be centuries away – or perhaps …