Tornadoes touched down in the upper Midwest and northern Arkansas on Tuesday, killing at least two people, as a spring-like storm system posed a risk to 45 million people.
A former Cromwell police sergeant was arrested today and charged with Workers’ Compensation Fraud after he was seen doing construction work at his home after an on-the-job injury supposedly left him unable to work.
Damage to the crippled West Point wastewater-treatment plant in Seattle could cost more than $25 million to repair and might have happened after a power surge knocked out two pumps, resulting in major flooding, according to new details from King County.
The mold assessor thought his efforts were competent. His assignment? An expansive home complemented with tasteful contents accumulated over five decades of Florida living.
People sparked most US wildfires in recent decades, causing longer fire seasons and increasing the amount of scorched earth, according to a new study published Monday. Researchers found that humans caused 84 percent -- or four out of five -- of the total 1.5 million wildfires studied between 1992 and 2012.<br /><br /><br /><br />In addition, human actions tripled the length of the fire season during those two decades and were responsible for 44 percent of the total acreage burned, researchers reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado with winds up to 110 mph touched down in western Massachusetts. Meteorologists say the EF-1 tornado touched down Saturday evening in Conway in Franklin County.
One person was killed and 26 others were injured Monday when a charter bus collided with two vehicles on State Route 58 in the Mojave Desert, authorities said.
A small plane crashed into two houses in Riverside, Calif., Monday evening, killing at least fou person and injuring two others. The Cessna 310 aircraft crashed shortly after taking off from Riverside Municipal Airport.
Nolan Mullins was just trying to change lanes when the steering wheel of his mother’s Ford Flex locked up and aimed him right into the chilly waters of Lake St. Clair.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a worker was “acting in the course and scope of his employment” when he fell while leaving work, and therefore can receive workers compensation benefits.
A claims service specialist (CSS) in the Dayton service office received the 2016 Fraud Finder of the Year award Jan. 26 from BWC’s Special Investigations Department (SID).
Four people have been hospitalized with burns after a truck hit a gas line in Wagoner County Thursday night. Emergency personnel say private contractors were working with a track hoe when they struck a natural gas pipe, causing the explosion.
An Auburn home was completely destroyed by fire Sunday morning, according to the Valley Regional Fire Authority. Firefighters received a call of smoke in the 30700 block of 124th Avenue Southeast about 6:15 a.m. and found a 5,000-square-foot two-story home fully involved, spokeswoman Kimberly Terhune wrote in a news release.
A car plunged from the rooftop of a parking garage and landed onto a shopping center in west Houston Sunday afternoon. The vehicle flipped and landed upside down, causing the roof of the restaurant to cave in.
