Snowy weather and whiteout conditions were blamed for multiple pileups in Ohio and at least two deaths on Tuesday, a day after at least four people were killed in dangerous travel conditions caused by a snowstorm that swept through the Plains and Midwest.

Several car makers have announced ambitious plans to go electric in the next decade or two, but as more electric vehicles (EVs) hit the streets, there could be an increased insurance risk, according to one insurer.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday dealt a blow to the firearms industry, rejecting Remington Arms Co’s bid to escape a lawsuit by families of victims aiming to hold the gun maker liable for its marketing of the assault-style rifle used in the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre that killed 20 children and six adults.

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.

One person was killed and another hospitalized in critical condition Thursday after a crash involving a Tesla in Van Nuys.

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.

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.

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.

The United States district attorney’s office is looking into federal insurance fraud cases surrounding staged accidents in the New Orleans area.

The work of a Norwegian geography academic is finally bearing fruit. Richard Heede spent a decade trying to determine whether he could pin down to what degree individual companies contributed to climate change.

I was working on a blog post this morning that turns out to have been based on an entirely fictional story. Researching it a bit further, we discovered that it was what has become commonly called “fake news,” and therefore not worthy of further dissemination.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has launched an investigation into the possibility that battery defects in Tesla vehicles may have caused the cars to burst into flames.

A small plane crashed into a vehicle Thursday in Ocala, Florida, killing both people on the plane and injuring the driver. The Beechcraft Baron had just taken off from Ocala International Airport for a maintenance flight before it "crash landed" on a six-lane road, hitting power lines and the SUV, authorities told ABC News.

Slick roads made for a scary Halloween drive. One car spun around on Eastbound I-70 3rd St. at the Polk-Quincy viaduct. Other vehicles were left in the ditch or off the road. One vehicle rolled on I-70 near West Union Road. Not too far away a military style truck collided with a tow truck.