SAFETY

The crash test dummy family has a new member, an anthropomorphic test device meant to be representative of a 10-year-old child, according to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration.

A Brazilian prosecutor plans to allege this week that Chevron and Transocean should not have drilled a deep-water well that leaked in November, legal documents showed, giving a glimpse into expected criminal charges that could slow the rush to develop Brazil's vast offshore oil wealth.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada issued a voluntary recall on a Chinese company's children's toys after Guidecraft had received some complaints.

A day after a published news report that authorities are setting up special task forces to stop the rampant theft of Tide detergent across the nation, both police and retailers are denying that the crime is on the rise.

Safety regulators have opened an investigation into an estimated 360,000 Ford Motor Co Taurus sedans for a potential problem with the throttle getting stuck in an open position.

The Mexico Tourism Board defends itself in the midst of the Texas DPS Warning.

Firefighters need to lug heavy equipment, brave scorching fires and rescue trapped people, but one group of firefighters in Indiana and Michigan faced an unusual complication from a barn fire in June - an outbreak of intestinal parasites.

As rescue teams frantically dug for survivors the death toll is expected to rise.

U.S. Coast Guard officials announced they have found and recovered bodies of two crew members that were missing since a helicopter crashed in Mobile Bay as part of a training exercise Tuesday night.

The federal government's effort to enforce stronger warning labels on cigarette packaging hit a snag Wednesday when a judge ruled that the regulations are a violation of free speech.

Parts of the U.S. Coast Guard helicopter that crashed Tuesday evening have been recovered by brought up to the surface for investigation. The crash happened in Mobile Bay during a Coast Guard training mission leaving one person dead and three others missing.

A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter with four people on board crashed off Alabama's coast in Mobile Bay on Tuesday night. Three of the crew members are reported missing, while one injured crew member was pronounced dead at the hospital, according to a Coast Guard spokesperson.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson said she believes hydraulic fracturing can be done safely. That may be a slight shift in her previous cautious view.

A shrunken budget caused a national nuclear safety lab to announce a plan to reduce its staff by up to 800 employees, officials announced Wednesday.

The U.S. State department issued a new 2012 travel warning and map for visitors to Mexico earlier this month. Alarming as some of the figures may be, there are still plenty of spectacular spots across Mexico that are not to be written of over safety concerns.

Labs whose experiments on dangerous pathogens are funded by the U.S. government must follow specific rules to keep the microbes from escaping, but those rules are not enforceable for researchers working with private funds. Outside the country, security and safety requirements vary widely, experts say.

As a part of a new deal between the city's hotels and their unions, personal panic alarms will be distributed to hotel staff members later this year.

Jona Rechnitz placed a bet at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas Sunday evening that the first score of Super Bowl XLVI would be a safety in favor of the New York Giants, netting him $50,000 from one of the most unlikely bets in all of sports--talk about a safety.

FilmDistrict has picked up the Sundance favorite Safety Not Guaranteed, the company said Monday. It plans to release the movie this summer.

Though Police Commissioner Ray Kelly remains in hot water after news broke that the police department had been showing an anti-Muslim film to hundreds of officers, critics' calls for him to resign probably won't be fulfilled.

Apple Inc has been in many ways an unstoppable stock, and that has been even more the case after earnings. Going back eight years, on the day after the release of results, its shares have risen 70 percent of the time.