Articles by ALICIA A. CALDWELL and JEFF HORWITZ

More than 1,000 U.S. retailers could be infected with malicious software lurking in their cash register computers, allowing hackers to... Read More

An out-of-control wildfire that has forced about 40 people to evacuate their homes on Oahu was caused by twin boys... Read More

Authorities say a sinkhole that opened beneath a Metro bus in Cincinnati has been repaired. The Metropolitan Sewer District of... Read More

Columbia Gas of Massachusetts has donated $5,000 to an organization that offers education and intervention to children who set fires.... Read More

An appeals court says a northeastern Ohio county could be liable in the death of a 17-year-old girl who apparently... Read More

State officials say they’ve overseen a record number of prescribed burns over the past year. The Florida Forest Service reported... Read More

Two central Kentucky firefighters are still hospitalized a day after they were shocked by a power line while helping out... Read More

The green-and-white ferry pulled away from the docks and churned across Puget Sound, leaving behind Seattle’s waterfront. Passengers stood in... Read More

Loren and Eva Schlabach lost their only son in a traffic accident on a clear summer day more than two... Read More