Thousands of rock salt lamps sold at Michaels are under recall due to shock and fire hazards. The recall involves about 80,000 rock salt lamps sold under the Lumiere brand.
A school bus carrying middle school students overturned on Route 95 in Weston Wednesday afternoon. The crash happened on the southbound site of Route 95 near Route 20 in Weston. Police said the bus collided with a pickup truck, which remained on the scene after the crash.
Delivery drivers have trucks full of valuable, brand-new merchandise, and don’t have a lot of visible security protection. That may be the reason why delivery drivers for the U.S. Postal Service, UPS, and Amazon have recently been the targets of burglars, armed robbers, and even carjackers on Chicago’s South Side.
A semi crashed into an overpass on the west side of Indianapolis, causing significant damage that will leave all northbound lanes of Interstate 465 shut down for weeks.
A tractor-trailer crashed Tuesday morning into the Allamuchy General Store Cafe, according to a man who answered the phone at the business. "No one was hurt but the truck is in the store," the man said.
Six people are recovering after an explosion at a Dayton Power and Light plant in Adams County. The explosion prompted a massive response and evacuation on Tuesday.
Tier 1 OEM supplier Osram announced CES attendees could get a taste of “laser-based car lighting,” a technology that sounds expensive to replace or repair but might reduce crashes by doubling high-beam range. Osram also has in the works a “glare-free full-beam (high beam),” which should keep oncoming cyclist and vehicle traffic from crashing as well.
The United States experienced 15 “weather and climate disasters” last year — each with losses exceeding US$1 billion — for a total of US$46 billion, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported on Monday.
A powerful winter storm system Monday kicked off a week of expected wild weather in Colorado, hammering Colorado Springs with hurricane-force winds that uprooted trees and forced Fort Carson soldiers to shelter in place, and dumping so much snow in the high country that a ski area had to close.
Insurance claims in Florida from early October’s Hurricane Matthew have grown to $803 million, according to the latest numbers from the state Office of Insurance Regulation. The total, tied to 115,560 individual claims made through Friday, is up from $729 million in early December.
Fire crews battled flames and subzero temperatures at a Billings car dealer and repair shop Tuesday morning. At about 2:35 a.m. the Billings Fire Department responded to JR’s Repair and Import Sales on the 2100 block of Lampman Drive. The business was already engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived.
A seven-mile stretch of Interstate 70 was closed in both directions on Monday morning after a chain-reaction crash led to a semitruck blocking the highway and a fully loaded tanker rolling over, the Greater Eagle Fire District said.
After the damaging May 18, 2014, hailstorm pummeled roofs all over Billings, insurance companies refused to renew about 3,000 homeowners’ policies. The reason given? They had filed three claims in three years, including claims for which the insurance company paid out money — and claims for which the company paid nothing.
