Drivers of older cars can gain some of today’s technology when Verizon Communications Inc. introduces a product linking them with its wireless network for help in a breakdown and advice on how to fix their aging set of wheels. For …
Highway regulators have failed to act on more than 100 recommendations to improve truck safety at a time when fatalities have risen for four straight years, according to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board. Priorities must change in 2015, with …
Jackson town councilors want landowners involved with a huge landslide to help pay to stabilize it. But the landowners are balking, saying it’s a problem for the whole town. The bill for the planned work, after subtracting anticipated state funds …
Officials in Minot, N.D., say a building boom following the 2011 Souris River flood is leveling off. The city issued $182 million in building permits last year, down from $261 million in 2013. City Building Inspector Mitch Flanagan tells the …
A cybersecurity research lab is opening at the University Research Park in Madison. It’s located in a building owned by the Wisconsin Security Research Consortium, which is a public and private mix of entities dedicated to improving the state’s climate …
Vicksburg, Miss., police are hoping to purchase cameras to keep a better eye on officers and suspects in the field. Police Chief Walter Armstrong said he’s examining funding options for purchasing bodyworn cameras for the department’s more than 70 officers. …
A state report says a propane leak led to a home explosion last year in Victoria in which a 26-year-old woman was killed but her infant daughter survived. The Victoria Advocate reports that the Texas Railroad Commission found that two …
Traffic flowed normally on California’s Golden Gate Bridge during the Monday morning commute after a weekend closure to install a safety barrier designed to reduce the dangers of head-on crashes. The bridge reopened at 9:30 p.m. Sunday, more than six …
The husband of a New Hampshire woman who died in 2013 when a tire from a truck trailer slammed into her SUV on Interstate 93 in Hooksett has sued the companies that operated the unit. The accident killed 40-year-old Kerry …
Authorities say nine people were taken to the hospital over the weekend after a carbon monoxide leak in a Provo, Utah, fourplex. Provo fire officials were called to The Boulders at about 2:30 p.m. Sunday when people in the apartments …