Over an October weekend, a friend of my boyfriend visited us from California. Since I wasn’t in the mood to drive across the city to the Philadelphia airport to pick him up, he did what most people would do. He pulled out his phone and called an Uber.

The family of one of the men who died when the Hard Rock hotel collapsed two weeks ago in downtown New Orleans has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the building’s developers.

A man and a woman died Wednesday morning when the vehicle they were in fell from the fourth floor of a parking garage near City Market, officials say.

A two-vehicle crash in southern Crawford County sent one pickup truck into a home Monday morning, knocking the house partly off its foundation. "I’m waiting for the (insurance) adjuster to look at it," said Lisa Peterson, the home’s owner told the Tribune on Monday.

The cost of automobile accidents has risen significantly over the past few years. From 2015 to 2017, bodily injury loss costs increased by 12.4 percent, property damage by 11.4 percent and personal injury protection by 6.4 percent, according to the Insurance Information Institute.

U.S. traffic deaths fell 2.4% in 2018 to 36,560 although the number of pedestrians killed rose to its highest level in nearly three decades, the U.S. auto safety agency said Tuesday.

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Internet-connected products have become enmeshed in many aspects of daily life, both at home and in the workplace. According to the consumer trends research firm Park Associates, 36% of homes with a broadband internet connection have a smart speaker, and 8% have a video doorbell, with another quarter of respondents saying that they plan to buy a video doorbell in the future.

As costs from this spring’s ransomware attack on Baltimore continue to come due, city officials will buy $20 million in cyber liability insurance to cover any additional disruptions to city networks over the next year.

On January 23, 2017, Noah Ravenscroft killed his wife, Kristy Jo, by stabbing her 24 times, striking her in the chest 13 times. At the time of the homicide, the couple had three minor children. Prior to the homicide, Mr. Ravenscroft had been experiencing auditory hallucinations and paranoid beliefs.

Power lines are suspected to have been involved in a major wildfire that led to evacuation orders for 100,000 people and was blamed for two deaths in Los Angeles County last week, authorities said Monday.

A 10-year-old girl has died after she fell off a carnival ride in New Jersey, according to police. The girl was on a ride called "Extreme" at the Deerfield Township Harvest Festival Saturday around 6 p.m. in south New Jersey when she fell off the ride, according to a news release from the New Jersey State Police.

Numerous crashes took place on roads across the Denver metro area Thursday morning as snow fell and temperatures dropped on Colorado’s Front Range.

Welterweight boxing champion Errol Spence Jr. was thrown from a Ferrari early Thursday while driving in Dallas, but he is expected to survive, police say.

A Philadelphia jury on Tuesday hit Johnson & Johnson with an $8 billion verdict over its marketing of the anti-psychotic drug Risperdal, siding with a Maryland man who argued that the health care giant downplayed risks that the drug could lead to breast growth in boys.