The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety designated 72 vehicles as winners of their top safety pick award. The award recognizes vehicles that do the best job of protecting motorists in front, side and rear crashes and have anti-rollover technology called Electronic Stability Control, or ESC.
The insurance industry named dozens of new cars and trucks, led by Ford Motor Co. and its Volvo subsidiary, to its annual list of the safest vehicles Tuesday, helped by the increased use of anti-rollover technology.
The grandparents of nine children who were given up by their father under Nebraska's unique safe-haven law said Thursday that they wished he would have come to them for help.
Nebraska's new "safe-haven" law allowing parents to abandon unwanted children at hospitals with no questions asked is unique in a significant way: It goes beyond babies and potentially permits the abandonment of anyone under 19.
Three boys are doing fine after spending 40 terrifying minutes locked in a gun safe at a sporting goods store in Salt Lake City.
Nissan Motor Co. will soon sell cars that push back when drivers try to put the pedal to the metal. It has also developed a test model packed with additional sensor technology to make vehicles crash-free.
New green rubber bands that will bind the claws of Massachusetts lobsters beginning this weekend won't save the lobsters from the dinner table. But they signify a state initiative aimed at saving whales.
A study by Allstate Insurance Co. ranking the nation's safest cities based on internal crash data over a two-year period.
An insurance study has once again found that Sioux Falls has the safest drivers in the nation, marking the third straight year that South Dakota's largest city has topped the list.
A locksmith has managed to open a 159-year-old safe from Oregon that baffled other professional safecrackers and an expert from MIT.
As the waters rose around her house, Ohn Tay grabbed her 8-year-old son and scrambled to safety. Hours later, she gave birth to a baby girl.
Operators of the only legal safe-injection site in North America, where people can inject illegal drugs with clean needles under a nurse's supervision, were in court Monday seeking a permanent exemption from Canada's drug laws.
The credit crisis has done more damage on Park Avenue than on Main Street, but the near-collapse of investment bank Bear Stearns raises the question of whether Wall Street's troubles could spread to commercial banks and ordinary depositors.
The United States Olympic Committee's plan to bring its own food to China has disappointed the leader of food services for the Beijing Olympics.
An Amish schoolhouse. A college classroom building, bustling with students and professors. An upscale department store at a mall, decked with holiday trimmings.
A single-engine plane that had reported trouble with its landing gear safely touched down Thursday on one wheel.
The number of new cars considered the safest by the insurance industry nearly tripled in the past year, helped by automakers' push to make certain safety equipment more widely available.
Gun safes are supposed to keep children out, but a 10-year-old boy managed to lock himself in. Daniel Jancura and two other boys were playing with a safe on display at a Sam's Club on Monday when he became trapped inside. It was at least 15 minutes before firefighters and store employees could get him out.
Some Nissan cars will soon come with a gas pedal that lifts to warn of possible collisions, while the cars will automatically stop if drivers take their foot off the accelerator in response to the warning.
President Bush on Wednesday established a Cabinet-level panel to recommend how to guarantee the safety of imported food and other products brought into the country and how to police them better.
The mystery what a locked antique safe found behind a historical society's furnace might hold had this town abuzz until a locksmith got it open. Its contents: the safe's long-lost combination.
People too tipsy to drive on New Year's Eve are being offered a free ride home — by the sheriff.
Imported models took all 13 spots on the U.S. insurance industry's list of safest vehicles this year, due mainly to a new requirement that all cars and sport utilities on the list have systems to keep them stable in an emergency.
OCALA - Relatives of Melinda Duckett who blame cable-TV talk-show host Nancy Grace for pushing their daughter to suicide two years ago are finally scheduled to get their day with her in federal court -- in 2010.
The president of the European Parliament called on Monday for EU budget money to be made available to finance the gathering of satellite intelligence for EU peacekeeping missions.
Time to market they call this. Now America's economy has gotten worse and worse and the plan for bailout has been rejected which is a good thing by the way.
On Wednesday, the Reserve Fund group's giant Primary Fund—owned by Bruce Bent, the man who invented the business—got stuck with $785 million in worthless commercial paper from the failed investment bank Lehman Brothers.
A British man who worked as a safe-cracker for Osama Bin Laden and Idi Amin tells his story.
Electricity was sent wirelessly to a lamp on stage, lighting a 60 watt bulb that uses more power than a typical laptop computer. Most importantly, the electricity was transmitted without zapping anything or anyone that got between the sending and receiving units.
There are credible reports of renewed militant presence in some areas on the Pakistani side of the LoC since April, soon after Mr Gilani was sworn in as prime minister of Pakistan.
4.5 Billion Years in Provence Commentary: Recent radioactive leaks in France provide a cautionary tale for America's "nuclear renaissance."
The collapse of IndyMac has banks in customer-reassurance mode. But it just points to the lack of consumer information about bank solvency
"I am outraged that this company would show a complete disregard for its employees' safety by knowingly placing them in an extremely dangerous work environment," said Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Edwin G. Foulke Jr.
One minute the swimmers were weaving through an eight-lane loom of water like dolphins, to the delight of thousands of howling and whistling fans. The next minute some were gasping for air.
The University of Central Florida wants tailgating fans to stop drinking immediately after kickoff beginning with this fall's football season.
JOHN HOWARD recalls it as the hardest decision he made as prime minister.
5 years from now, 5 years ago. When I was young. Man are they old, sure 35 is old. Days seems to fly past now, how did I get all this done when I worked? I live month to month, what do I care about next year.
The world is changing at a very fast pace these days; a statement that few would disagree with. The mind set of the human race is also changing at a very fast pace as well.
"March 10th, 2008 It's no secret that for decades, Big Oil and Big Auto have created a smokescreen of misinformation over the validity of the alternative energy markets. And who could blame them?
Not all of us can afford to go 100% organic. The solution? Focus on just those foods that are laden with the highest amounts of pesticides, chemicals, additives and hormones and deploy your organic spending power on buying organic versions of these whenever possible.
"An 82-year-old Milwaukee widow who feared she had been cheated out of nearly $20,000 in life savings because the nation's third-largest bank would not honor a 1985 cashier's check has now reached a settlement."
Meat and milk from cloned animals is generally safe to eat, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has declared.
According to some estimates, US spends close to 500 Billion on fighting terrorism or in facing the threats of terrorism. But still the world is not safe against terrorism or threats of terrorism.
On December 19, 2007, the Department of Health & Human Services' Office of Inspector General (OIG) published a Notice in the Federal Register soliciting proposals and recommendations for developing new and modifying existing safe harbor regulations under the Federal anti-kickback …
Child Advocates Praise Decision..safe Haven laws do work!
A diversion safe is also known as a hidden safe. The Chicago Crime Commission reports that a burglar spends an average of 8 minutes in a victims home. Spread your valuables around your house in a few diversion safes to reduce your chance of loosing them.
Which seats on the airplane are safest? Is it safer in the back?