Fire fatalities have steadily declined in the U.S. since the late 1970s, thanks partly to improved building codes requiring safety measures such as sprinkler systems, multiple fire exits and fire-resistant construction materials. But a deadly blaze in the Bronx served …
New York City has agreed to periodically lower the water level in three of its upstate reservoirs in an attempt to ease flooding along the Delaware River, according to environmental officials. By leaving the reservoirs below capacity during wet weather, …
When word spread that people injured by the fen-phen diet drug cocktail could share in a multibillion dollar legal settlement, law firms began sponsoring health screenings so large that a judge quipped that one doctor’s work “would have been the …
