All the headlines from our Numbers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 11 2023 // MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Four people were injured in an apparent explosion at a Madison condominium building Tuesday evening, the city’s fire chief said.One person was taken to an area hospital by ambulance, and...
May 8 2023 // GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) – Two workers were being treated for chemical burns Friday after one fell into a vat at a Grand Rapids electroplating plant, authorities said.The Grand Rapids Fire Department was sent on a...
May 8 2023 // HOUSTON (AP) – Fire erupted at a petrochemical plant in the Houston area Friday, leaving five workers hospitalized and sending up a huge plume of smoke visible for miles.Emergency responders were called to help...
May 4 2023 // One worker is missing and the building is severely damaged after an early morning explosion at a pharmaceutical chemical plant in a business park in Newburyport, Massachusetts.Five workers were in the building at the time...
Apr 21 2023 // The owner of a Philadelphia building that caught fire and collapsed last summer, killing a city firefighter and injuring five other people, has been indicted along with another man on charges they set the blaze, federal...
Apr 18 2023 // Nine states, including Michigan and Nebraska, have joined a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit against Alphabet’s Google which alleges the search and advertising company broke antitrust law in running its digital...
Apr 17 2023 // The National Weather Service confirmed two weak tornadoes touched down last week in middle Georgia.No one was reported injured in either storm. A tornado with top winds of 90 mph touched down on the southeast edge of...
Apr 14 2023 // New Jersey authorities on Wednesday arrested a small-town police chief, charging him with sexually assaulting subordinates over more than a decade, while also announcing misconduct charges against another police chief who...
Apr 13 2023 // Three Alaska Native tribes have sued to block what they say would be one of the largest gold mines in the world, arguing that federal agencies failed to properly analyze health and environmental concerns for the project in...
Apr 10 2023 // The bodies of two men and two women have been recovered following a small plane crash just off Florida’s Gulf Coast, police said Thursday.The plane had just taken off from Venice Airport when it crashed into the Gulf...
Apr 6 2023 // Walsh Construction Co. and Melo’s Rodbusters, Inc. have agreed to pay $1.24 million collectively to resolve False Claims Act allegations that they participated in a fraudulent scheme to take advantage of the federal...
Apr 5 2023 // Federal appeals court judges on Tuesday appeared skeptical of 3M’s bid to use the bankruptcy of its subsidiary Aearo Technologies to shield itself from nearly 260,000 lawsuits over allegedly defective military-issue...
Apr 3 2023 // Nine people died in Tennessee’s McNairy County, east of Memphis, in the same deadly storm system that pounded parts of Arkansas and Illinois, according to Patrick Sheehan, director the Tennessee Emergency Management...
Mar 27 2023 // WEST READING, Pa. (AP) – Firefighters battled a blaze in Pennsylvania Friday after an explosion at a chocolate factory injured eight people and sent a plume of black smoke into the air above West Reading.Berks County...
Mar 15 2023 // Three people were killed in a house fire as multiple propane tanks exploded, officials said.”Explosions were going off inside the home” when firefighters arrived early Saturday morning, Barrow County Fire Chief...
Mar 7 2023 // The former manager of a Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles branch has agreed to plead guilty to federal extortion charges for allegedly taking bribes and in exchange for issuing passing scores on learner’s...
Feb 22 2023 // U.S. District Judge Sarah S. Vance sentenced New Orleans residents Herbert Allen,age 38, and Dion Ridley, age 23, after they pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud in violation of Title 18, United States Code,...
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Feb 17 2023 // Two more Louisiana citizens were sentenced for conspiring to stage automobile accidents in order to defraud insurance and trucking companies.United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that John Diggs age 62, of...
Feb 16 2023 // Two Columbia, Mo., residents pleaded guilty in federal court to their roles in a $1.2 million insurance fraud conspiracy that involved false claims of injuries suffered in car accidents.Latoya Marie Brown, 37, who also...