Fewer Opioid-Related Deaths in States Allowing Medical Marijuana On average, states allowing the medical use of marijuana have lower rates of deaths resulting from opioid analgesic overdoses than... Read More
Fort Collins Continues to Have Safest Drivers: Allstate Report For the fourth year in the report’s history, the top honor of “America’s Safest Driving City” is Fort Collins, Colo.,... Read More
DOT Proposes New Design Rules for Buses to Reduce Rollover Crashes Last month, the Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposed a new federal motor vehicle safety standard to... Read More
Tips on Reducing Wildfire Risks As wildfires burn homes and thousands of square miles across the West, fire experts say simple actions like clearing brush... Read More
U.S. Retailers Warned About Hacking Software More than 1,000 U.S. retailers could be infected with malicious software lurking in their cash register computers, allowing hackers to... Read More
2.2M Bean Bag Chairs Recalled After Deaths About 2.2 million bean bag chairs are being recalled after two children opened them, crawled inside and suffocated to death.... Read More
Some Give up Jobs as Fantasy Sports Gambling Explodes Cory Albertson was cruising at 30,000 feet and, like others on the plane to Detroit, taking care of some business... Read More
Auto Safety Agency Offers Online Vehicle Recall Check The U.S. government is offering a free online service for drivers to find out if their vehicles have been recalled... Read More
Salmonella Risk Prompts Peanut, Almond Butter Recall A unit of Hain Celestial Group Inc. is recalling some peanut and almond butter because of possible salmonella contamination. The... Read More
Federal Report Details How Firefighting Costs Erode Conservation Efforts The Obama administration detailed on Wednesday the toll that the escalating cost of fighting forest fires has had on other... Read More