Three classrooms at a New Hampshire school have been closed after concern that the ceilings might collapse. Superintendent Jim Hayes closed three first-floor classrooms at Newmarket Junior and Senior High School on Friday after a report from an engineer that …
Federal safety inspectors have ordered one of the nation’s deepest underground mines closed in northern Idaho following an investigation prompted by a series of accidents that killed two miners over the last year. The Lucky Friday Mine, one of the …
Thousands of motorists faced what could be a nightmarish commute as a 10-mile stretch of a busy freeway near Los Angeles remained closed indefinitely after a big-rig tanker erupted into flames and burned to the pavement. No one was injured. …
A nuclear reactor in southern Sweden has been shut down after a fire at the plant. Plant operator OKG’s spokesman Anders Ostberg says a fire started in a turbine hall of Reactor 2 around midnight Saturday but was quickly extinguished …
Arkansas Tech University officials say they’re trying to find a different location for theater students to continue their academic work after a Russellville Fire Department inspection found unsafe conditions at the school’s theatre workshop. Officials said in a statement Tuesday …
Orono housing officials have closed a University of Maine fraternity after finding violations including an inoperable fire alarm system, a furnace that hadn’t been serviced and trash and clutter problems. The 22 students who had lived in the Pi Kappa …
The beach at Lake Barkley State Resort Park has stayed closed for swimming, nearly a month after the traditional Memorial Day weekend opening because the waters have tested for high levels of E. coli bacteria. Park Manager John Jordan told …
Firefighters say a three-alarm blaze that caused $250,000 damage at a closed Kansas City school was intentionally set. Fire Department spokesman Joe Vitale says the fire at the former Manchester school started around 5 p.m. Saturday and quickly spread across …