According to a fire official, there was another man who has died after an explosion, apparently due to a gas leak, destroyed an industrial building located in Southern Los Angeles. Fire Capt. Stephen Ruda reported that a man had died when thrown out of the building by the 6:15 a.m. blast Friday. The second man [...]
A panel of US judges heard arguments from lawyers on Thursday on how piles of oil spill-related lawsuits against BP Plc should be merged, more than 2,000 miles or 3,200 km from the Gulf of Mexico shoreline. As part of its regularly scheduled rotation among federal courts, the panel meeting in Boise, Idaho did not [...]
Asserting that the security breach had endangered lives and damaged the ability of others to trust the United States government to protect their secrets, US Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Thursday denounced the disclosure this week of 75,000 classified documents about the Afghanistan war by the Web site WikiLeaks. The documents were “a mountain [...]
More than a million gallons of oil may have leaked this week into a major southern Michigan waterway that leads to Lake Michigan, said the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The estimate reported tonight from the EPA exceeds earlier estimates from the company responsible for the spill into Talmadge Creek, which runs into the [...]
The newspaper Commercial Appeal is reporting that the body of missing basketball star Lorenzen Wright of the Cleveland Cavaliers was found in a wooded area in Memphis, Tennessee’s southeast side. Memphis police are referring to a “death investigation” and the newspaper is reporting that a 911 call made on July 19 from Wright’s cell phone [...]
Until after a verdict is returned, US District Judge James Zagel said Monday that the names of jurors in the case of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich won’t be released. Zagel, in denying a motion by the Chicago Tribune and other news outlets, said he was too concerned that members of the jury in the high-profile [...]
San Francisco is known for doing some pretty crazy things, and now it has really peeved off the organization that represents the mobile phone industry with a crazy new radiation law. Known for banning plastic bags and bottled water, the city has just passed an ordinance that requires electronics retailers to display how much radiation [...]
By Monday, crews were still trying to restore electricity to thousands of households after powerful storms wreaked havoc through the US capital and caused the power lines to break down and the trees to be toppled over, resulting in the death of two people. “The Sunday storms cooled things off but left widespread damage,” authorities [...]
