The company said an inspection of its brewery in Mills River, North Carolina, "detected a very limited number of bottles with a flaw that may cause a small piece of glass to break off and possibly fall into the bottle, creating a risk for injury."

A 150-pound pet tortoise is being blamed for a fire that caused heavy damage to the home of a neighbor on the city’s far Northwest Side.

A seven-mile stretch of Interstate 70 was closed in both directions on Monday morning after a chain-reaction crash led to a semitruck blocking the highway and a fully loaded tanker rolling over, the Greater Eagle Fire District said.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder declared a state of emergency Friday for Macomb County due to last month’s collapse of a massive sewage line that has caused a football field-sized sinkhole in one of its communities.

Twenty lawsuits later, the dust has finally settled from an explosion and fire at North Shore Marina nearly four years ago. "We’re happy to be done with it," Marina Manager Jill Kinkema said last week. "We got to the point where we wanted to put that behind us."

There are a lot of things you don’t want to happen to your car, but having it go up in flames for no apparent reason is likely close to the top of the list. Yet, that’s apparently occurred to eight Smart vehicles in the last two years.

Seven people were hurt — two seriously — when an escalator at the Atlantic Terminal Mall in Brooklyn malfunctioned Tuesday evening. According to store employees, people were walking down a non-working escalator when it began to move without warning just after 6 p.m.

The Food and Drug Administration announced a series of related recalls of products, including waffle mix, kettle chips and macaroni and cheese, because of possible salmonella contamination.

A 10-alarm blaze erupted Saturday afternoon in a dense Cambridge neighborhood, destroying or damaging at least 11 buildings, and displacing at least 60 people in a conflagration that Fire Chief Gerald Reardon described as looking like a "ball of fire" in war zones.

Toys R Us is pulling a toy off the shelves after a scary situation for a Bellingham family. The Hardens bought a Tonka truck from Toys R Us as a Christmas present for their grandson Friday night. On the drive home, they say it ignited in flames.

More details have been released regarding a multiple-vehicle crash that happened in Eau Claire Wednesday morning. It happened near the intersection of Clairemont Ave. and Menomonie Street. According to Eau Claire Police, a trailer fell off of the trailer hitch on a truck.

A large apartment fire sent three people to the hospital and evacuated nearly 20 units. Fire crews were called to the fire near 825 E. 600 S. at about 4:30 a.m. Officials said the fire started in a car port storage room.

Samsung is offering repairs, refunds and replacements for about 2.8 million top-load washers after receiving hundreds of reports of machines vibrating excessively — in some cases, so much that the lids became detached.

Automakers have "ultimate responsibility" for the costs of replacing potentially deadly Takata Corp (7312.T) airbags, no matter what happens to the Japanese supplier, the top U.S. vehicle safety regulator said on Wednesday.

Each year, wildland fires scorch millions of acres of brush and timber, damage tens of thousands of homes and commercial properties, cost federal and local governments billions of dollars in suppression efforts, and cost insurance companies hundreds of millions in property insurance proceeds.