Japanese disaster exposes serious problems with nuclear fuel By Andrew McKillop 21st Century Wire March 16, 2011 As alternatives to fossil fuel go, nuclear power has long been held in high regard by green prophets and policy...

Daily Mail - Monday 20th May, 2013 Man and a woman die in gas explosion which tore apart terraced house: Woman and two children including baby girl are rescued alive from rubble in home next ... One dead two injured in North...

Daily Mail - Monday 20th May, 2013 Man and a woman die in gas explosion which tore apart terraced house: Woman and two children including baby girl are rescued alive from rubble in home next ... One dead two injured in North...

Making mentally ill defendants ready for trial Making mentally ill defendants ready for trial The judge ascended the bench. He looked down at cafeteria-style tables marked "Prosecuting Attorney" and "Defense Attorney." To his...

Authorities believe the driver who plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Virginia mountain town parade suffered from a medical condition and did not cause the crash intentionally, an emergency official said Sunday.

MEXICO CITY - The Popocatepetl volcano near Mexico City is still rumbling. Mexico's National Disaster Prevention Center says seismic activity shook the area early Sunday. And the 5,450-meter mountain also emitted gas, ash and...

By Chris Roark, croark@starlocalnews.com Published: Friday, May 3, 2013 10:37 AM CDT Area firefighters have returned home after spending a week in the town of West, helping the community that has suffered following an...

Japanese nuclear reactor workers. Current Realtime Radiation Map. http://coupmedia.org/realtime-us-radiation-map-1503 [if number reaches 130 in your region, this is indicator of dangerous levels.] Jetstream Flow Map Of Current...

East Muskingum seventh graders go unbeaten Cambridge beats Edison to win D-II Sectional crown Bobcats avenge OVAC championship game loss, to face West Holmes in district again Bobcats close regular season with road loss Nicasio...

A top White House adviser insisted President Barack Obama learned the Internal Revenue Service had targeted tea party groups only "when it came out in the news" while Republicans continued to press the administration for...

An aerial view of the West Fertilizer Company plant explosion in West, Texas, April 25, 2013. (Photo: Stephen Crowley / The New York Times) The horrific collapse last month of a Bangladeshi garment factory, which claimed the...

Daily Mail - Sunday 19th May, 2013 'I was thinking: This is really it. I am going off a cliff. I am going to die': Miracle survivor of 2,000ft avalanche fall reveals terrifying moment he was forced to SWIM to safety through ......

Making mentally ill defendants ready for trial Making mentally ill defendants ready for trial The judge ascended the bench. He looked down at cafeteria-style tables marked "Prosecuting Attorney" and "Defense Attorney." To his...

Five people have been taken to hospital after a suspected gas blast destroyed a house in Nottinghamshire.More than 100 people were evacuated from nearby homes as a precaution, police said.Photographs posted on Twitter showed...

This article is adapted from Thomas Fleming’s new book, A Disease In the Public Mind – A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War . Part two of a three-part series (read parts one and two ) . Thomas Jefferson Randolph....

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake jolted the sea area off the east coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on Monday, according to Itar-Tass reports.The quake occurred at 6:44 a.m. local time on Monday (1944 GMT Sunday), according to...

Belfast Telegraph - Sunday 19th May, 2013 BY MICHAEL McHUGH - 20 May 2013 A PSNI chief said he hopes there will be greater public confidence in the police on the back of talks aimed at quelling community ... ‘One dead’ in blaze...

MIRAMAR, Fla. -- The man who was pulled from a wreck on the Florida Turnpike was set to marry the woman who lost her life in the tragic crash. Good Samaritans braved the flames, trying to pull the couple to safety but the...

Residents have been evacuated and there has been no reports of casualties yet Published Monday, May 20, 2013 Image courtesy: Mohamed Elweheshy A fire that broke out in a residential building near Jamal Abdul Naser Street in...

f it wins final approval, the eye-popping $2.25 billion penalty that the California Public Utility Commission's Safety and Enforcement Division has recommended against Pacific Gas and Electric Co. will be the largest ever...

The Popocatepetl volcano near Mexico City is still rumbling. Mexico's National Disaster Prevention Center says seismic activity shook the area early on Sunday. And the 5,450-meter mountain also emitted gas, ash and glowing-hot...

The days in Minecraft seem so short, the nights so very long. Who hasn’t been out exploring, lost their bearings, and realized, as the sky grows dark, that they’ll have to dig a hasty hole and spend the night in it" RikMuld’s...

If China needed a deflationary boost (if only for chicken prices which will certainly result in inflation for all other food products, especially after the recent floating pig fiasco fades from memory), it certainly got it with...

Emergency services were called to the house in the southeast Queensland city after reports of an explosion about 5.20pm (AEST) on Sunday.The Department of Community Safety says when crews arrived the house was extensively...

by Brian Dumlao on May 20, 2013 @ 12:30 a.m. PDT Packed with features and gravity defying stunts, Urban Trial Freestyle brings innovation to the hugely popular action bike racer genre and takes it to new dimensions. Imitation...

Millais painting acquired by museum A celebrated Pre-Raphaelite painting that led to a marriage breakdown is acquired by the Ashmolean museum. UKIP councillor denies wrongdoing A newly-elected UKIP councillor at the centre of...

Five people have been confirmed dead in a blast that ripped through an explosives manufacturing plant in East China's Shandong Province Monday morning. The explosion occurred at 10:50 a.m. at the plant owned by the Poly...

An explosion has injured five people at a house in Nottinghamshire. The county's fire service said the home in Wright Street, Newark, was severely damaged in the blast, thought to be caused by gas, at 17:10 BST. Five people...

TOWN OF WASHINGTON, Wis. (AP) - Investigators are looking for the cause of an explosion that leveled a house in Eau Claire County. The explosion Sunday shook the neighborhood and sent debris flying. Town fire official Mark...

A man died after a domestic gas explosion blew him through the window of his seventh-floor apartment on Sunday night. The explosion in the 12-storey apartment block on 7 Nagornaya Ulitsa shattered the apartment's windows and...