A 16-year-old North Texas girl who plummeted more than 3,000 feet to the ground in a skydiving accident in Oklahoma says she panicked then blacked out after her parachute malfunctioned and doesn’t remember striking the ground. Makenzie Wethington of Joshua …
Federal investigators said Tuesday that they have ruled out accidental causes such as a gas leak or electrical malfunction in a deadly house explosion in Tennessee and were trying to figure out what triggered the blast. Agents with the U.S. …
American International Group Inc. is cutting about three percent of its staff as Chief Executive Officer Robert Benmosche targets the property/casualty unit for reductions. Severance costs cut fourth-quarter earnings by $265 million before taxes, AIG said in a statement today. …
Following a U.S. Department of Transportation call to require vehicle-to-vehicle communication technology for all cars and light trucks on the nation’s highways, the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute has been tapped to design the delivery integration framework that will allow vehicles …
A Butte, Mont., company has paid a $2,000 fine for failing to make a timely report of an employee’s death last fall. Big Sky Rentals employee Jay F. Bickford was in the bucket of a lift on Oct. 18 when …
After two decades of planning, California has scrapped a plan to turn a legendary Grass Valley gold mine into a tourist destination. The Sacramento Bee reports Thursday that officials recently announced they would spend no more money on the Empire …
Britain’s weather service says it sees the tentacles of climate change in a spate of storms and floods battering the country, but has stopped short of saying that global warming directly caused the extreme conditions. The latest round of bad …
An underground gas line in rural southern Kentucky exploded early Thursday, sending two people to the hospital and destroying two homes, a county official said. The explosion happened around 1 a.m. Thursday in a hillside about 100 feet off the …
A bill to add more stretches of Utah highway with a speed limit of 80 miles per hour is closer to becoming law. The Salt Lake Tribune reports a Senate committee unanimously approved the bill Wednesday. It advances to the …
An appeals court has upheld a bus driver’s convictions for a Virginia crash that killed four passengers, injured dozens and cast national attention on low-fare carriers operating on the East Coast. Kin Yiu Cheung dozed off as he was driving …