Would you rent your home to a total stranger? This may seem like a daunting prospect at first, but internet companies like Airbnb, HomeAway and VBRO have helped millions of people to do just that. Reassured by social media tools …
Federal regulators are investigating whether Ford Motor Co. should expand a 2013 safety recall of diesel trucks. The previous recall involved 2,951 F-350, F-450 and F-550 trucks sold with ambulance packages. The trucks were equipped with 6.7-liter diesel engines that …
At least 14 people were killed over the weekend when the island nation of Madagascar was battered by a tropical storm, officials said Monday. Tropical storm Chedza has displaced more than 36,000 Madagascans, said the National Office of Risk and …
A Georgia food company has recalled more than 850 pounds of beef and chicken because of misbranding and exposure to potential allergens. Officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture say Kabob’s Acquisition Inc. recalled about 869 pounds of meat that …
A fitness model and actor who previously shot workout videos on railroad tracks was struck and killed by a train during filming in Southern California. Two men were videotaping George Plitt Jr., 37, on the tracks north of the Burbank …
After increasing rapidly over the past three years, the pace of earthquakes in Oklahoma held steady in 2014 at a rate higher than California and far higher than the historic average in Oklahoma. Oklahoma experienced 567 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 …
A state group says a steep increase in earthquakes in south-central Kansas likely is caused by the disposal of wastewater from an oil and gas extraction process often called fracking. The state recorded more than 120 earthquakes last year, up …
Firefighters responding to an electrical malfunction on the Washington subway system had difficulty communicating by radio and some had to use cellphones instead, according to a preliminary report released by the city Saturday. The report says fire officials notified transit …
A woman who was injured when her son’s gravestone fell on her at a Joplin, Mo., cemetery has lost her lawsuit. The Joplin Globe reports that a part of the monument that weighed 450 pounds toppled off its base on …
A Tennessee man has pleaded guilty to his role in the burning of an occupied Rhode Island apartment building in what prosecutors called an arson-for-profit. Federal authorities and Providence officials on Thursday announced that 27-year-old Gbabia Kollie of Johnson City, …