The snowpack in Utah is melting, and it’s causing water runoff that has emergency management personnel alert for possible flooding. “Flooding is the most common natural disaster," said Joe Dougherty, PIO for Utah Emergency Management.
Nearly eight months after the Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled more than 500,000 “hoverboard” scooters from eight manufacturers over fire hazards posed by the devices’ lithium-ion battery backs, the agency has opened an investigation into a fire that killed a 3-year-old girl in Pennsylvania on Friday.
Every eight minutes in the U.S., a child under three has an accident related to baby products like strollers, carriers, cribs and walkers, a study suggests. That adds up to more than 66,000 injuries a year on average, and it only counts infants and toddlers who visit the emergency room.
Seven people were taken to the hospital late Monday after 35 vehicles were involved in two separate chain-reaction crashes less than a mile apart on the Kennedy Expressway.
A federal safety official called on the rail industry to move faster to upgrade aging rail tankers following a fiery train derailment in rural Iowa that spilled ethanol into a creek and was still burning nearly two days after it erupted.
Police and federal investigators are searching for two burglars who stole more than 30 weapons from a gun shop in Rockville, Md. Montgomery County police said they received an alert about an alarm going off around 3:50 a.m.
A former longtime deputy and K-9 trainer for the Bannock County Sheriff’s Office, Clint Brown, will be sentenced Monday in the Bannock County Courthouse after pleading guilty to insurance fraud.
First the flood, now the mold — and for many San Jose residents the coughing and sneezing has already begun. It takes only 48 to 72 hours, most experts agree, for fungi to invade a home.
Investigators are seeking the public’s help in catching two men who were caught on camera robbing a jewelry store in Deerfield Beach while disguised as women, last week.
The insurance and risk underwriting workforce is baby boomer heavy, and in the next decade, many of those industry professionals will retire. Millennials are not beating down doors to take over those jobs for a lot of reasons, said Tony Cañas, a 34-year-old self-described insurance nerd who writes for the blog InsNerds.com.
A fire that started in Lane County around noon Monday and spread into Hodgeman and Ness counties, was confirmed Wednesday morning to have scorched 57,000 acres over two days, contributing to what already has been a record year for grass fires in Kansas.
