There have been delays rebuilding a tornado-damaged high school gym in southern Illinois. A tornado ripped off part of a wall of Gillespie High School gym last May. Superintendent Joe Tieman says there have been setbacks in the effort to …
About 85 percent of residents who were displaced by the large and deadly tornadoes that decimated Joplin, Mo., and Moore, Okla., have rebuilt or intend to, the communities’ mayors said Monday. It’s been almost three years since the town of …
A state police fire marshal says a candle caused a fire that destroyed a 10-unit apartment building in central Pennsylvania that left about 35 people homeless. Nobody was hurt in the fire reported just after noon Saturday at the Seven …
A federal agency is granting $20 million to a rural Central Texas town to help rebuild two schools destroyed in last year’s deadly fertilizer plant explosion, town and federal officials said Monday. The Federal Emergency Management Agency will provide the …
A flavoring manufacturer in Oakdale, La., has been cited by the U.S. Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration after a fire last year severely burned a worker. OSHA on Monday cited Carol Callahan, doing business as Natural Advantage, for …
A Dallas firefighter has died after falling from an icy highway overpass as crews responded to numerous accidents reported across the region, officials said early Tuesday. Firefighters were responding to a major accident along Highway Spur 408 on Monday night …
School board documents say the Scottsbluff Public Schools district has settled a lawsuit filed over a 2011 “huffing” incident at Westmoor Elementary School. The Scottsbluff Star-Herald reports that a memo in the board meeting packet says the lawsuit was settled …
A New York City chemistry teacher has been reassigned pending an investigation after two of her students suffered burns during a lab experiment. According to the New York Post, school officials say Anna Poole has been removed from class to …
A contract worker has been sentenced to a fine and community service for an explosion at a suburban New York college that hurt eight people. The Journal News says Douglas Walker of South Nyack pleaded guilty to a violation Monday …
The state’s highest court is upholding the assault conviction of a driver who was reading a text message as his car drifted across two lanes and into oncoming traffic. The court’s ruling means that 30-year-old Chad Belleville will continue serving …