Bridgeport, Conn., Mayor Bill Finch blamed hoarding for a fire that critically injured a couple and their 2-year-old daughter. Finch...
Yearly Archives: <span>2014</span>
A week ago, Hurricane Norbert pumped tropical moisture across the southwest, touching off record rainfall in Phoenix and Tucson that...
Hurricane Odile, the strongest to hit Baja California Sur in decades, weakened slightly as it battered the Mexican peninsula with...
The world’s biggest reinsurers, pushed by rising competition in existing markets, are preparing to insure against Dutch floods, a peril...
BP Plc, which already has paid more than $28 billion for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, seeks to...
Large businesses and government agencies have been getting a big break on premiums in Mississippi’s coastal insurer of last resort,...
Federal auto safety regulators played a significant role in General Motors Co’s failure to promptly report and recall cars with...
How do you prevent an earthquake from destroying expensive computer systems? That’s the question earthquake engineer Claudia Marin-Artieda, PhD, associate...
U.S. drivers are nearly 3 percent more likely to collide with a deer in the next 12 months than they...
Vehicle crash deaths are significantly up in parts of Texas where oil and gas production is booming the most. The...