Northern Butte County is desolate. Few roads crisscross the wind-swept prairie where cattle and sheep and wildlife graze. But that same wind-swept prairie may make for one of the best offices in the world – but it’s one of the …
Law enforcement is concerned that the popular Waze mobile traffic app by Google Inc., which provides real-time road conditions, can also be used to hunt and harm police. Waze is a combination of GPS navigation and social networking. Fifty million …
A decision to wear a helmet is already paying off for veteran long-distance musher Brent Sass. A chunk is missing from the brim of the downhill ski helmet he now wears on the trail, the result of a crash into …
Cyber risk can be technically hard to understand, according Marty Frappolli, senior director of Knowledge Resources for The Institutes. The damage to consumer data, complicated analysis on specific technologies involved in data breaches, and keeping up with court case rulings …
An attorney defending the Boy Scouts against a sex abuse lawsuit in California says the organization acknowledges mistakes in the past but now has a robust child protection program in place. Lawyer Nicholas Heldt said Monday in his opening statement …
A pair of researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences will study how opioids are prescribed and dispensed by doctors and pharmacists. The $538,781 grant by the National Insitute on Drug Abuse will cover three years’ of study …
New Jersey officials are moving to demolish hundreds of homes that were ravaged by Superstorm Sandy. State Community Affairs Department spokeswoman Tammori Petty tells the Daily Record that the agency is identifying the owners or lien holders of roughly 600 …
State environmental regulators say the highest-risk aboveground storage tanks could face a $375 annual fee in a law to protect water supplies. Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Randy Huffman made the comments to a state Senate budget panel Monday. The …
A new analysis shows Minnesota law enforcement officers who shot and killed suspects faced volatile and varied situations, with those who were killed often holding a weapon. At least 60 people have been shot and killed by officers in the …
One prospective juror said she had a panic attack. Another claimed to have a bad back. A third is in the military and worried he would be deployed during the trial of Colorado theater shooter James Holmes. As thousands of …