All the headlines from our Numbers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 30 2019 // Oakland authorities have confirmed a fire chased eight people out of an evacuated and condemned building injuring one person before fire crews could extinguish the blaze.Assistant Fire Marshal Emmanuel Watson compared the...
Dec 13 2019 // Two businesses whose Northwest Portland, Ore. storefronts were destroyed by a 2016 gas explosion have filed new lawsuits against the company that was digging at the time.The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Portland Bagelworks...
Dec 9 2019 // Firefighters battled hot spots at a south Georgia peanut warehouse on Thursday, more than a day after the blaze began.Coffee County Fire Chief Steve Carver told The Associated Press that firefighters arrived at the...
Dec 3 2019 // Authorities say one worker was killed and another seriously hurt when they fell from the bucket of a lift truck while working on a Massachusetts bridge.State police say the workers fell onto a barge at about 10 a.m....
Nov 22 2019 // One person was seriously injured in a Midland, Texas, explosion and fire on Thursday involving several storage tanks and a truck used in oilfield operations, city and hospital officials said.The fire was contained at the...
Nov 18 2019 // Authorities say a huge fire has destroyed two large yachts in South Florida, sending flames skyward and leaving millions of dollars in losses.No injuries were reported in Saturday’s pre-dawn fire. Fort Lauderdale...
Nov 18 2019 // Three people were convicted of manslaughter Friday in the 2015 East Village building explosion that killed two men.They also were found guilty in Manhattan state Supreme Court of assault charges for injuries to 13 people...
Oct 30 2019 // Two Georgia suspects have been arrested and charged for allegedly defrauding Lemonade Insurance Company.Special Agents in the Criminal Investigations Division at the Georgia Department of Insurance assisted with the arrest...
Oct 30 2019 // Four members of one family were injured Sunday when a small plane crashed on takeoff from an airport in upstate New York.According to the Genesee County Sheriff’s Office, the single-engine Beechcraft came down just...
Oct 28 2019 // Five defendants have been indicted in Louisiana for an alleged insurance fraud involving a staged vehicular accident scheme, the U.S. Attorney’s Office says.Damian K. Labeaud and Lucinda Thomas of New Orleans, and...
Oct 21 2019 // Four large drug companies reached a last-minute $260 million legal settlement over their role in the U.S. opioid addiction epidemic, averting the first federal trial that was scheduled to start Monday morning in...
Oct 18 2019 // Since an unprecedented blackout plunged millions of Californians into darkness last week, residents and state officials have questioned how utility giant PG&E Corp. came to the decision to cut the lights.Now they have...
Oct 16 2019 // Three drug distributors are in talks with state and local governments to settle thousands of opioid lawsuits for $18 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the...
Oct 11 2019 // Authorities in Washington, D.C., say two regional transit agency workers were hurt when one commuter train rear-ended another. WTOP-FM reports D.C. Fire and EMS tweeted that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit...
Oct 8 2019 // Two public school districts on Monday sued Juul Labs Inc, accusing the company of endangering their students and draining their resources by marketing its addictive e-cigarettes to teenagers.The St. Charles, Missouri, and...
Oct 7 2019 // Two former employees of a Connecticut-based restaurant chain say in a lawsuit that they were subjected to a pattern of sexual harassment and abuse by a manager.Gianna Aconfora and Maizzy Douchette allege in the suit filed...
Oct 1 2019 // Authorities in Pennsylvania say three people have been hurt in a helicopter crash at a state fair.WNEP-TV reports a pilot and two passengers were in the helicopter when it crashed Saturday about 7:30 p.m. in the parking...
Sep 30 2019 // A company that’s facing lawsuits and public scrutiny over pollution from a north Alabama plant says it’s suspending some manufacturing work because of environmental reasons.A statement issued by 3M Co. says it...
Sep 25 2019 // Authorities are investigating an explosion in an underground tank at an upstate New York gas station that killed a worker.State police say the explosion happened Friday afternoon at a Speedway station in the town of...
Sep 11 2019 // Coast Guard rescuers pulled four trapped men alive from a capsized cargo ship Monday, drilling into the hull’s steel plates to extract the crew members more than a day after their vessel overturned while leaving a...