HOUSTON — Sweltering temperatures lingered Sunday in a large swath of the central U.S., causing misery from the Gulf of Mexico almost to the Great Lakes. Record high temperatures were …
Another Paris Olympics test run in the Seine River has been canceled because of new concerns about water quality FILE – Athletes dive and swim in the Seine river from …
LAHAINA, Hawaii — Long before a wind-whipped wildfire blasted through the island of Maui, tension existed between Hawaii’s kamaaina, or longtime residents, and the visitors some islanders resent for turning …
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags A South Dakota museum is closing after almost 40 years over concerns that the chemicals in its taxidermy collection could endanger visitors and …
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Children who lived closer to natural gas wells in heavily drilled Pennsylvania were more likely to develop a relatively rare form of cancer, and nearby residents of …
BILLINGS, Mont. — A health clinic in a Montana town plagued by deadly asbestos contamination has filed for bankruptcy protection after a judge ordered it to pay the government almost …
PHOENIX — Postal worker Eugene Gates Jr. was delivering mail in the suffocating Dallas heat this summer when he collapsed in a homeowner’s yard and was taken to a hospital, …
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags SEOUL, South Korea — A day after a powerful tropical storm flooded dozens of homes and turned streets into muddy rivers, South Korea …
ST. LOUIS — St. Louis-area activists have been fighting for years to get government compensation for people with cancer and other serious illnesses potentially connected to Manhattan Project nuclear contamination. …
DENVER — Bobbie Boyd, a 57-year-old resident of northwest Arkansas, is facing a difficult battle against the extreme heat. With temperatures reaching near triple digits, her window air conditioner is …