As early as 2000, U.S. health authorities raised concerns about the French breast implant maker at the heart of a scandal affecting hundreds of thousands of women worldwide. That was almost ten years before the company came under scrutiny from European regulators.
State police and the FBI continue searching for missing 20-month-old Ayla Reynolds who vanished from her bed Friday night in Waterville, Maine.
A surveillance video of a police officer in Allentown, Philadelphia, tasering a teenager has been released.
U.S. safety investigators called on Tuesday for a nationwide ban on texting and cell phone use while driving, a prohibition that would include certain applications of hands-free technology becoming more common in new cars.
The body of Shannan Gilbert has likely been found, according to Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer. The police, however, are still awaiting definitive conclusion that it is indeed her.
NTSB wants the 50 states and the District of Columbia to ban the nonemergency use of portable electronic devices if they aren't designed for supporting the task of driving.
The latest in a string of deadly crashes involving children, a school bus taking primary students home slipped off a country road into an irrigation ditch in eastern China, killing 15 children and wounding eight others, officials said.
Following the MythBusters cannonball accident that sent a cast iron cannon sailing through the air and destroying homes, residents in Dublin, Calif. worry about the safety of their neighborhood and repairs needed following the incident.
An Indian state official reassured residents Tuesday that the recently-attacked 116-year-old Mullaperiyar dam is safe and will not become harmed by the latest surge of violence.
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) detained pregnant teen Vanessa Gibbs over her pistol purse at an airport security check before a flight from Virginia to Florida.
Yukon-Nevada Gold Corp said the U.S. federal mine regulator put its Jerritt Canyon mill on safety watch list for alleged violations.
It's a dream of medical science that looks tantalizingly within reach: the artificial pancreas, a potential breakthrough treatment for the scourge of type 1 diabetes.
The Department of Transportation has launched its new Curbside Haiku safety program, which combines traditional Japanese poetry and modern art to increase traffic safety.
Police hunting for missing toddler Sky Metalwala reportedly found several items of interest while searching a park in Kirkland, Wash., last weekend. The items recovered on Nov. 19 have been sent to a forensic lab for analysis.
A 52-car pileup on the autobahn highway in northern Germany has left three people dead and 35 injured.
The 2009 Arizona sweat lodge deaths forced the nation to re-examine sweat lodge safety. On Friday, the infamous Guru James Arthur Ray will be sentenced for his role in the 2009 spiritual warrior accident.
Three men accused of stealing more than a quarter of a million dollars from 1,500 people have been arrested. The men had installed card-reading devices and surveillance video cameras on Chase ATMs near Union Square in January.
President Barack Obama scolded tobacco companies for trying to block health warning labels on cigarettes, a product the world leader himself only recently quit using.
As the investigators have already followed thousands of leads in the case, Bernard thinks the ending of the case might be what no one wants to think of.
The banking sector, enduring rounds of deep job cuts, faces the grim prospect of having nowhere to turn to for immediate employment in the industry, as nearly all branches of finance have pulled back on hiring.
Human rights group urges Shell to pay $1 billion for the clean up of two oil spills that date back to 2008. Company says continuing sabotage undermines clean-up efforts.
Nearly half of neurosurgeons surveyed admitted to performing at least one wrong-site surgery in their career, according to study.
