We have a need to classify stuff—including all living things. For example, the scientific approach to an orderly classification of plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships is called taxonomy.
Two people were killed Sunday morning after a red Porsche went airborne and crashed into the second floor of a commercial building in Toms River, police said.
As the Wu-Tang Clan famously said, "pizza rules everything around me." Err, uh, something like that. Pizza is everywhere, including, quite possibly, your stomach right now. So, it’s worth checking if any of the toppings you’ve got in the fridge are part of a recall on sausage and pepperoni made specifically for pizzas.
A 48-year-old San Jose man pleaded guilty this week to orchestrating a series of fires as part of a scheme to collect millions of dollars in damages, authorities said.
The pilot of a single-engine plane died after crashing into a house in Upland Thursday morning, sparking a massive fire, officials said. The San Bernardino County Fire Department responded to the residence on West 15th Street where flames were seen shooting through the roof.
Patrick and Michele Mowrey are stuck in Chesapeake. The couple has been traveling the country for the last six years in their RV, but after a tornado touched down in the Edinburgh area November 1, they have been unable to travel.
For the past few years, retailers have been confronted with a tidal wave of litigation alleging that their websites are inaccessible in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Indeed, in 2018 alone, one analysis determined that there were at least 2,258 web accessibility cases filed in federal court, a 177 percent increase from the previous year.
A Buffalo Wild Wings employee died and at least 10 people checked themselves into hospital after being exposed to a strong chemical cleaning agent at a restaurant in Burlington, Massachusetts, authorities said on Thursday.
For many people trying to put their lives back together in the wake of California’s catastrophic wildfires, the process of rebuilding can feel like a second hardship — one not inflicted by nature, but rather, by the insurance company they thought would protect them.
Simmons Prepared Foods is recalling more than 2 million pounds of chicken products that may be contaminated with metal. The recall was announced Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.
Pacific Gas & Electric has agreed to extend by two months the deadline to file claims against the company for damages suffered from a series of wildfires in California.
A new report based on claims data collated by AmTrust Financial Services has found that injuries to retail workers cause employees to miss an average of about 24 days of work.
Every morning when he goes to work in the freezer room of a warehouse in eastern Pennsylvania, Jack Westley throws on a hooded sweatshirt to keep warm and grabs a radio to talk to his coworkers. He was recently given a new piece of equipment to wear, which he attaches to a harness over his shoulders.
The mother of a 10-year-old boy who suffered serious injuries after falling from a zip line in September has filed a lawsuit. Kimberly Barnes, of Lakeland, Florida, is suing Urban Air Adventure Park, also in Lakeland.
