This emerging market is rapidly growing strength throughout the United States with legalized cannabis. The marijuana insurance industry has exploded since certain forms and uses of medicinal cannabis received approval.

Every 45 seconds, a car is stolen in the U.S., for a total value of $4.9 billion in stolen vehicles during 2015. And as vehicles have become more sophisticated, they’ve often inadvertently been left exposed to car theft in new ways.

New government estimates project that for the second straight year, the United States will see the largest leap in motor vehicle fatalities in 50 years. In the first nine months of 2016, the Department of Transportation estimates that 27,875 people died in motor vehicle crashes.

A New Jersey family whose son got his foot stuck in a mall escalator and had to have his toes amputated has filed a lawsuit against the mall and the company that made the escalator.

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.

Last March, Toshiba recalled the lithium-ion battery packs used in approximately 91,000 laptops that were found to overheat, posing burn and fire hazards to consumers. Now, the company is expanding the safety initiative, recalling an additional 83,000 units.

Two trolleys crashed on Lancaster Avenue in West Philadelphia on Wednesday, leaving 46 people with minor injuries, officials on the scene said. "It’s like a bomb set off," one passenger told NBC10.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation says 59 vehicles crashed in a snowy pileup along a western Pennsylvania highway, and three people were hurt.

A fast-moving blaze last week that charred six row homes and displaced 23 people was caused by careless smoking, a fire official said Wednesday. The fire began on the back porch of 440 N. Fulton St., Allentown fire Capt. John Christopher said Wednesday.

Extreme downpours — like those that flooded Louisiana, Houston and West Virginia earlier this year — will happen nearly three times as often in the United States by the end of the century, and six times more frequently in parts of the Mississippi Delta, according to a new study.

Damage to a Harmar trucking facility that burned to the ground Friday night could cost more than $1 million. Joe Luera, assistant chief at Allegheny Valley Volunteer Fire Company, said that figure could climb as the Allegheny County Fire Marshal’s office and insurance companies continue their investigation at Ideal Trucking.

A Dauphin County jury convicted a man of arson after he set a fire in April 2014. Jamat Manzoor is facing endangering persons, arson of an inhabited building and insurance fraud.

Amtrak agreed Thursday to pay $265 million to victims of a crash in Philadelphia in 2015, which killed eight and injured 200 when a train derailed in a curve at twice the speed limit.

Police are investigating a burglary at Boyds in Center City Philadelphia after the store’s front window was found smashed out. They say it appears the suspects drove a car through the window.

A Hempfield Township family is offering a hefty reward after their costly farming equipment is destroyed in a fire. Tom Logan of Logan Family Farms said his John Deere tractor and combine caught fire around 3 a.m. Sunday at a property he rents for his two sons in Mount Pleasant Township, Westmoreland County.