New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday ordered state agencies to review and update emergency response plans for rail shipments of crude oil that pass through the state in the wake of recent derailments out of North Dakota’s energy patch.In …
Google Glass is getting glasses. Google is adding prescription frames and new styles of detachable sunglasses to its computerized, Internet-connected goggles known as Glass. The move comes as Google Inc. prepares to make Glass available to the general population later …
The Johnstown Area Heritage Association and its partners are planning a season full of events to mark the 125th anniversary of the 1889 Pennsylvania flood. It’s being billed as the area’s largest commemoration of the event since flood centennial celebrations …
Monroe, La., officials say they plan to build a $1.4 million fire station at the airport to house a special truck designed to respond to aircraft emergencies. The News-Star reports the city council will vote Tuesday whether to open the …
Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. may have to return $16 million to homeowner customers who, for years, were charged a $65 application fee without their knowledge. Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon ordered the application fees returned Dec. 12, saying Citizens broke …
A North Texas university is one of six programs in the country helping the Federal Aviation Administration design rules regulating how drones and other unmanned aircraft can share airspace with airplanes and other manned flying machines. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram …
Floridians would get a 15-day sales tax holiday on hurricane preparedness supplies ranging from portable generators to radios this coming June under a proposal outlined Monday by Gov. Rick Scott. Scott, making the announcement at a Miami lumber and hardware …
A Chinese company supplied hundreds of thousands of bolts of the wrong size for the seismic retrofitting of a San Francisco Bay Area bridge, according to a California Senate report. The 250,000 incorrectly sized bolts for the Carquinez Bridge to …
The University of Toledo Medical Center has agreed to pay $200,000 to a southeastern Michigan woman who says radiotherapy was applied to the wrong sites to treat her cervical and endometrial cancer. The Court of Claims of Ohio announced the …
The company behind a chemical spill that contaminated the water supply of 300,000 people now estimates some 10,000 gallons of chemicals leaked, up from an earlier figure of 7,500 gallons, state regulators said Monday. West Virginia’s Department of Environmental Protection …