Nearly two dozen people were injured when a Metrolink commuter train carrying nearly 200 passengers crashed into a semi truck on Tuesday morning in Los Angeles, fire department officials said.
General Motors Co (GM.N) said on Monday it settled the last two so-called bellwether cases stemming from a faulty ignition switch linked to 124 deaths and 275 injuries.
Hurricane Newton smashed into Mexico’s western coast early Tuesday, battering the upscale resorts of Los Cabos with 90-mph winds and driving rain. The Category-2 storm was generating hurricane-force winds 40 miles from its center as it rolled over the Baja California Peninsula just before 2 a.m. local time (5 a.m. ET), according to the National Hurricane Center.
The former owner of a Darby Borough auto body shop was sentenced to 23 months of intermediate punishment Thursday after pleading guilty to insurance fraud and receiving stolen property.
Thousands of Pittsburghers will be going back to work Tuesday morning following the long Labor Day weekend, but they’ll be coming into city without the benefit of the Liberty Bridge. The span has been closed since a fire last Friday.
A 6-year-old boy died in a crash after his mom says she swerved to miss a deer but hit a tree instead. The accident happened in Lower Burrell, Westmoreland County, around 8 a.m. Thursday.
One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded in Oklahoma rattled the area northwest of Pawnee on Saturday, fuelling growing concern about seismic activity linked to energy production, a federal agency said.
Hermine, a storm that raked Florida with hurricane-force winds last week, lingered on Tuesday off the U.S. East Coast where it was expected to produce heavy gusts and rain over the next two days.
The Federal Aviation Administration drone regulations that went into effect Monday are expected to usher in a new and dramatic period of change for the commercial use of unmanned aerial vehicles — one that spells potential profit for insurance professionals.
More than 2,100 properties across the U.S. enrolled in the National Flood Insurance Program have flooded and been rebuilt more than 10 times since 1978, according to a new analysis of insurance data by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
Colorado weather is not always kind to its residents. When it isn’t hail battering homes, denting cars and shattering glass - like during last month’s major storm - it’s Monday’s river of water and hail rushing down streets, washing away structures, clogging drainage systems, tearing down fences, flooding homes and leaving a path of destruction in its wake.
The August downpours that dumped more than 30 inches of rain in two days on parts on Louisiana have left as many as 100,000 insured cars and trucks damaged, the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) in the United States said on Thursday.
Forecasters on Wednesday downgraded Hurricane Madeline to a tropical storm as it veered past Hawaii’s Big Island, but officials reiterated warnings to prepare for heavy rain and strong winds. The National Weather Service downgraded the storm as its winds decreased to 70 mph.
An explosion took place during a SpaceX fueling operation at its launch site in Florida. An engineer at Kennedy Space Center told ABC News that Space X was in the process of conducting a fueling test on Launch Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral when the incident occurred.
It was JetBlue’s plane stupidity that got a Manhattan boy lost. A 5-year-old returning home alone from a family visit in the Dominican Republic was placed on the wrong flight — and ended up 214 miles away in Boston while his panic-stricken mom waited at Kennedy Airport.
