Evacuation of a jail in Florida’s northwest Miami-Dade County was halted late Monday after fire rescue workers gained the upper...
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The city says it will pay $50 million to settle lawsuits stemming from a 2003 fire at a downtown county...
Firefighters battled a huge blaze that engulfed a commercial facility in South Los Angeles. Los Angeles Fire Department spokeswoman d’Lisa...
Relatives of those killed in a 2005 BP plant explosion and other industrial accident victims are urging the Legislature to...
Republican presidential candidate John McCain called Tuesday for greater competition for health care coverage for Americans, saying more choices for...
On the eve of Hurricane Katrina, massive pumps that keep water out of the New Orleans suburb of Metairie went...
Crews overcame a threatening flare-up Monday and worked to halt a wildfire east of Los Angeles that has sent 1,000...
Baxter County Heritage Museum in Gassville, Ark., damaged by a tornado while closed for its winter break, will not reopen...
Wildland fire officials are warning of a potential disaster in southeastern Arizona. Fire behavior analysts with the Eastern Arizona Incident...
More than 16,000 Class-2 misdemeanor charges in South Dakota were dismissed last year. Virtually all of the dismissals were for...