The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 – one of Boston’s most peculiar disasters – killed 21 people, injured 150 others...
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The Northeastern coast of the U.S. could be struck by more frequent and powerful hurricanes in the future due to...
The Department of Buildings of the City of New York’s (DOB) recent move to better regulate crawler crane operations in...
When floodwaters poured into Holly Furlong’s Virginia Beach home in October, she ripped out electrical cords and rushed her four...
Faced with a barrage of lawsuits from workers demanding benefits and recognition as employees, some companies in the fast-growing ‘gig...
Authorities say crews have established a control line around a wildfire that’s burned thousands of acres in central Virginia’s George...
A strike by hundreds of union workers at an upstate New York chemical plant is now into its fourth week....
Seven people have been injured, four critically, in a fire that swept through three homes in Woodbury, N.J. One of...
Poor communication among police, private security and other personnel contributed to a mass panic that erupted at a New York...
Rearview cameras are expected to prevent nearly one-in-six police-reported backing crashes, an Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) study has...