Today’s technology news is dominated by articles about the promise of 5G—it was one of the top stories coming out of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. 5G, so named because it’s the generation following today’s 4G, could bring mobile phones information 600 times faster than today’s speeds.

A 30-vehicle crash closed a section of Interstate 43 for hours Tuesday morning.

Uber Technologies Inc is not criminally liable in a March 2018 crash in Tempe, Arizona, in which one of the company’s self-driving cars struck and killed a pedestrian, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

In July 2007, Dr. Cecile Rose, a pulmonologist with the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver, Colorado, wrote a letter to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration describing a case in which one of her patients was diagnosed with the debilitating lung disease Broncholitis obliterans. Dr. Rose said that the 53-year-old patient appeared to have contracted the disease from approximately 10 years of at-home exposure to diacetyl fumes from microwave popcorn.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said they are sending teams to investigate a fatal crash in Florida on Friday involving a Tesla Inc car and a semi-trailer.

Liberty Mutual may be required to defend two seafood companies from negligence claims filed by an employee who sustained injuries after a heroin overdose at work.

In recent years, the world of sports has been shaken up by an increased awareness of concussions and their long-term consequences, especially after a concussion-related settlement between the NFL and over 20,000 retired football players was reached back in 2015.

Police have charged a man accused of slamming into multiple cars with a truck outside a High Point restaurant on Wednesday.

Last year was a busy year for climate change litigation. Although a few claims already have been dismissed, the significant surge of litigation is expected to continue in 2019.

When Flint, Michigan returned to using the Flint River as its water source on April 25, 2014, the switch and subsequent treatment of the water resulted in elevated lead levels in the city’s drinking water and a major public health crisis.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) current approach to workers’ compensation liability claims is leading to consternation and confusion among many industry insiders, it has been suggested.

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. said Thursday that it was "probable" that its equipment caused the Camp fire that destroyed thousands of homes in Paradise, Calif., and killed 85 people in 2018.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Monday endorsed a state bill that would expand the state’s new privacy act to allow consumers to sue companies over their handling of personal data, despite months of tech lobbying against such a move.

Authorities have identified a 30-year-old teacher as the person killed in what is now being called the largest traffic crash in Wisconsin history.

It’s almost uniformly accepted in US society today that it’s a bad practice to drive drunk - and yet, people continue to get behind the wheel after a few drinks on a pretty regular basis.