SAFETY

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.

Michael Jackson's physician Dr. Conrad Murray, who was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, has been placed on suicide watch while he waits for his sentencing hearing, which is scheduled for Nov. 29.

Gold prices jumped two percent to hit their highest point in six weeks and regain, at least for now, its traditional role as a safe-haven investment.

Addiction treatment would improve patient safety, researchers noted in survey.

Researchers called Chantix, the smoking-cessation drug linked to psychotic and suicidal side effects, unsafe for patients Wednesday; just days after federal health officials in October deemed the drug safe.

Canada's murder rate in 2010 fell to a 44-year low of just 1.62 per 100,000 people, official data showed on Wednesday, just a day after the government said it would ease the country's strict gun laws.

3M Co's quarterly earnings fell well short of expectations due to weakness in the electronics market, the debt crisis in Europe and inventory-reduction moves by its customers, sending the company's shares down 6 percent in early trading.

Italian rider Marco Simoncelli’s death Sunday in a crash during the Malaysian MotoGP has sent a warning signal to other riders - a fatal accident like this is bound to happen.

Rapper, actor and entrepreneur M.C. Hammer is taking to search engines.

The United States is still crafting a legal framework to guide any offensive moves in cyberspace, months after the Pentagon unveiled a broad cyber strategy, the head of the military command responsible for such operations said on Tuesday.

The U.S. Senate unanimously approved a pipeline safety bill on Monday that would require strength-testing of old pipes and hike fines for safety violations after a series of accidents and explosions.

In a law suit representing more than 350 organizations, the Center For Food Safety has demanded that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration require companies to label foods that have been genetically modified.