Safety
Today's Child Injury Panic: Shopping Carts
Study finds 66 kids treated every day due to cart-related injuries
Jet Blue Temporarily Scaling Back Operations in Boston, New York
Needs to recover from the weather-related nightmares
Tragic But Avoidable Christmas Deaths Don't Result in New Safety Regulations
When people choose to ignore warnings, it's not the state's responsibility
Program Causes Sharks to Tweet Their Locations
In order to let surfers and swimmers in Australia know they're near beaches
Canada's Supreme Court Strikes Down Prostitution Laws
Ruling opens door for state-regulated "bawdy houses"
Ford Escape Subject to New Recalls
One of which is due to a potentially faulty fix from a previous recall
Meningitis Outbreak May Result in Federal Charges
Hundreds sickened and many deaths over tainted drugs
Contractor Charged in Philly Demolition that Killed Six
Botched operation and building collapsed onto neighbor
MIT Challenges Musk Claim of Fewer Tesla Fires
Maybe too soon to say electric cars are less likely to catch fire than gasoline-fueled vehicles
Feds to Open Probe on Tesla Car Fires
A couple of cases of batteries catching of fire after cars hit road debris
You Know What This Hotel Made Out of Ice Needs? Smoke Detectors!
The regulations will be followed, even if they make no sense
When Airplane Gadget Rules Are Eased, Will We Start Seeing More Recordings of Crew Behavior?
More importantly, will these recordings improve airline employee behavior?
$5 Billion in School Security Spending Followed Newtown Shootings
Almost 90 percent of school systems made changes
SeaWorld Challenges Ban on Orca Contact
Touching between trainers, whales banned following death in 2010
OSHA Wants Electronic Workplace Injury Reports They Can Post Online
The federal government calling for transparency from private industry is kind of funny
How Safe Can You Make Space Without Stifling Innovation and Enterprise?
No frontier has ever been explored or opened by making safety the highest priority.
Those Deadly, Dangerous Postage Stamps Still Live
Series of frolicking kids not yet destroyed. Won't somebody think of the children?
Federal Agencies Warn Americans Not to Just Stick Things in Their Eyes
What would we do without you?
Three Students Hurt When Cop's Gun Goes Off at School Safety Program
The jokes write themselves. Fortunately the injuries were minor
Government Shutdown Delays Hearing About Asiana Airlines Crash
Pushed from November to December
Police Union President Wants Off-Duty Cops to Be Able to Carry Guns at NFL Stadiums
Because they have special rights
When Postage Stamps Are Too Dangerous for Children's Eyes
Headstands without helmets, people!
From the Angry Makers of Forbidden Buckyballs: Liberty Balls!
It takes balls to fight against government regulatory authority