Colorado Funeral Home Owner Who Abused Corpses Gets 40 Years in Prison February 10, 2026 By Jesse Bedayn and Matthew Brown A Colorado funeral home owner who stashed 189 decomposing bodies in a building over four years and gave grieving families...
Asbestos Clinic in Montana Forced to Close to Pay for BNSF Jury Award May 16, 2025 By Matthew Brown An asbestos screening clinic in a small Montana town where thousands have been sickened by toxic dust from a nearby...
Aircraft Caught Fire After Landing in Denver, Sending Passengers onto Wing March 17, 2025 By Thomas Peipert, Sarah Brumfield, Jesse Bedayn, Colleen Slevin and Matthew Brown A fire on an American Airlines plane after it diverted mid-flight and landed at Denver International Airport sent passengers fleeing...
How Underground Abandoned Mines Pose Danger When Land Collapses December 10, 2024 By Michael Rubinkam and Matthew Brown Swaths of Pennsylvania and many other states are honeycombed with old, unstable mines that can cause the earth to suddenly...
More Logging Proposed to Help Curb Wildfires in Pacific Northwest November 20, 2024 By Matthew Brown U.S. officials would allow increased logging on federal lands across the Pacific Northwest in the name of fighting wildfires and...
Colorado Mine Elevator Door Was ‘Broken’ in Accident That Killed 1, Trapped 12 October 17, 2024 By Matthew Brown, Amy Beth Hanson, Mead Gruver and Jesse Bedayn Investigators are trying to figure out what led to an elevator accident inside a former Colorado gold mine that killed...
Court Upholds Finding That Montana Clinic Submitted False Asbestos Claims September 27, 2024 By Matthew Brown A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court determination that a Montana health clinic submitted hundreds of false asbestos...
Montana Asbestos Clinic Seeks to Reverse Court Finding That It Submitted Hundreds of False Claims August 23, 2024 By Matthew Brown An attorney for a health clinic in a Montana town polluted with deadly asbestos asked a federal appeals court on...
Jury Rules BNSF Contributed to 2 Deaths in Montana Town Exposed to Asbestos April 25, 2024 By Amy Beth Hanson and Matthew Brown A federal jury said BNSF Railway contributed to the deaths of two people who were exposed to asbestos decades ago...
BNSF Says It Didn’t Know About Asbestos That’s Killed Hundreds in Montana Town April 23, 2024 By Matthew Brown and Amy Beth Hanson BNSF Railway attorneys told a Montana jury that the railroad should not be held liable for the lung cancer deaths...