Three-alarm Spokane fire leaves dozens displaced

SPOKANE-- On Saturday September 4, 2010 at 2:31 AM, 7 Companies of Spokane Firefighters, 4 Engines, 2 Senior Ladders, 1 Heavy Rescue, under the direction of Battalion Chiefs Cornelius and Haworth responded to a structure fire at 1838 East South Riverton Avenue. First arriving firefighters rapidly coordinated the evacuation and rescue of the dozens of occupants who had fled the building. As ...

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A family was displaced after a two-alarm fire broke out on the outside of their two-story house in Jonestown, Lebanon County, around 2:30 p.m. Sunday.

Starwatch consumer | Pension funding alarm; Toshiba laptop recall

The deficit in pension plans sponsored by the nation’s largest companies increased by $76 billion to $506 billion at the end of August, according to a Mercer Investment Counseling report. The pension shortfall is the largest ever recorded by S&P 1500 companies and is also more than twice the 2009 year-end deficit of $247 billion, Mercer said.

New untreatable diseases found

The recent discovery of a gene carried by bacteria that makes some diseases practically untreatable has raised alarm bells on the growth of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Wiring in bathroom light blamed in West New York one-alarm fire

Journal file photoNorth Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue responds to West New York one-alarmer. WEST NEW YORK -- A small, one-alarm electrical fire in an apartment building has displaced one family, officials said. North Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue responded...