H-E-B issued has a voluntary recall of four sizes of H-E-B brand cottage cheese, dip, yogurt and sour cream over concern that foreign material may have made its way into the product. The statement issued Thursday by the San Antonio-based …
A flexible tubing for natural gas has been linked to at least 24 house fires in the Des Moines area since 2007. Officials told The Des Moines Register that the tubing is vulnerable to damage from lightning. The officials say …
A new report says unsafe street and road designs are putting West Virginia pedestrians at risk. The report by Transportation for America ranks West Virginia 24th nationally for pedestrian risk. From 2000 to 2009, 237 pedestrians were killed in the …
The Verisk Catastrophe Index has been expanded beyond the hurricane peril to also cover U.S. earthquake risk, including fire following earthquake. The index provides industry-wide insured property loss estimates by county and line of business based on data from ISO’s …
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers classifies a dam in far southeast Oklahoma as extremely high risk, but officials say there’s no immediate danger the dam might fail and negatively affect those downstream along the Little River in southwest Arkansas. …
More than 1.8 million homes along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts are at great risk of being damaged by a hurricane, three times the number located in federally defined flood zones, according to a report released Tuesday. The report by …