All the headlines from our Numbers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 4 2023 // A small plane with four passengers crashed at a Utah airport, killing one and injuring the other three, according to city officials in Provo.The plane crashed immediately after takeoff on Monday and one of the three...
Dec 29 2022 // SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Dense fog plagued California’s Central Valley early Wednesday as one winter storm left the state and another lined up to enter.The new storm was expected to move through Northern...
Dec 22 2022 // A 68-year-old man died and another man was taken to the hospital for treatment after an ammonia leak at a food processing facility in Massachusetts, authorities said.Police officers and firefighters went to the plant in...
Dec 20 2022 // 3M Co., confronting regulatory pressure and lawsuits that threaten billions of dollars in damages, will stop making so-called forever chemicals and aim to discontinue their use in products by the end of 2025.The...
Dec 14 2022 // The Netherlands’s government is exploring its legal options against chemical giant 3M over pollution in the Dutch part of the Scheldt River.For years, the company’s Antwerp, Belgium-based factory seeped...
Dec 14 2022 // Three children under the age of 5 are dead and their mother was taken to a hospital after a house fire in North Carolina on Monday morning, authorities said.Greensboro Deputy Fire Chief Dwayne Church says firefighters...
Dec 13 2022 // WEST PENN TOWNSHIP, Pa (AP) — Pennsylvania State Police say two firefighters died responding to a house fire where a body was found, while two people who lived in the home got out safely.The slain firefighters were...
Dec 13 2022 // The holding company for the insolvent FedNat Insurance Co. has filed for bankruptcy after an increase in severe weather events in the state weighed on its balance sheet, Bloomberg News reported.The company filed for...
Dec 9 2022 // Fifteen automakers have made life-saving automatic emergency braking standard on nearly all of their new passenger vehicles in the U.S. this year, fulfilling a voluntary commitment made six years ago.That leaves five...
Dec 9 2022 // A year ago Saturday, one of the most powerful tornadoes to hit the United States ripped through western Kentucky with 190-mph winds, destroying multiple homes, businesses, a candle factory, churches, a county courthouse...
Dec 7 2022 // VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Two people were killed Monday when a storage tank exploded at a Virginia welding business, a fire official said.Firefighters responded to Neptune Welding on Virginia Beach Boulevard just after...
Dec 6 2022 // Two children died and two adults were injured last weekend in a house fire in Salisbury, North Carolina.The Salisbury Post reported Saturday that the Salisbury Fire Department and Rowan County Emergency Services were...
Nov 29 2022 // GAITHERSBURG, Md. (AP) —Two people were rescued early Monday more than six hours after their small plane crashed into live power lines, causing widespread outages in Montgomery County, Maryland.Montgomery County Fire...
Nov 29 2022 // Six of the top 10 most dangerous cities for pedestrians are in the Southeast and four of those are in Florida, according to a report from an advocacy group that works for better planning and safer transportation...
Nov 22 2022 // A small plane crashed in Winston-Salem on Saturday, killing two people, authorities said.Winston-Salem Police Department spokeswoman Kira Boyd told the Winston-Salem Journal that two people died in the crash of the small...
Nov 21 2022 // Four people were killed in a fiery plane crash Friday morning northeast of Seattle, authorities said.The single-engine Cessna 208B crashed in a field, the Federal Aviation Administration said, not too far from a small...
Nov 16 2022 // Two Kentucky farmers and a relative have been indicted for falsifying crop damage and exaggerating the size of their fields in order to reap crop insurance benefits.A federal grand jury last week charged Randall Taulbee...
Nov 16 2022 // Damages are estimated at more than $522 million in a central Florida coastal county where homes collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean following Hurricane Nicole last week.The damages from the category 1 storm in Volusia...
Nov 15 2022 // The international ship registries of Djibouti and the Cook Islands suspended the flags on five oil tankers, following sanctions by the United States this month for having facilitated oil trade for Hezbollah and...
Nov 7 2022 // Electric company PacifiCorp has entered a settlement with two families who were victims of the catastrophic Labor Day fires in southern Oregon in 2020, according to attorneys representing the families, the Oregonian...