A rented U-Haul that struck and killed a Massachusetts tailgater at a Yale-Harvard football game malfunctioned as a Yale undergraduate drove the vehicle into a crowded parking lot, the student’s attorney said Sunday. William Dow, representing Yale student Brendan Ross, …
Members of a Fargo, N.D., family are recovering in a hospital after a carbon monoxide scare. KVLY-TV reports that members of the Al and Shirley Shafer family became sick Thursday morning. Daughter Amanda ran off to buy a carbon monoxide …
General Motors Co has agreed to pay half the cost of repairing faulty fuel gauges in Chevrolet, Buick and GMC sport utility vehicles and Saab cars from model years 2005 through 2007. The agreement, affecting up to 865,000 vehicles in …
A fire that destroyed a landmark bar and restaurant south of Hoover Dam has been traced to a faulty circuit breaker. Golden Valley fire marshal Randy Osborn said Tuesday that the blaze at Rosie’s Den started in the basement and …
A new report says a faulty water pipe contributed to the death of an Asheville firefighter during a blaze later determined to be arson. The Asheville Citizen-Times reports that Capt. Jeff Bowen was unable to get water from one of …
A newspaper carrier and his son in Eugene helped save a house from burning when they spotted smoke on their morning delivery rounds. The Register-Guard reports that Brian Richcreek and his 14-year-old son saw smoke pouring from the chimney and …
The Idaho Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by a former state representative who contested a jury’s decision that he must pay about $1.4 million to a couple after one of them was injured on a broken stairway. The justices …