Protection News

Obama has tapped Howard A. Schmidt, longtime computer security executive who worked in the Bush administration and has extensive ties to the corporate world, according to a senior White House official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement will not be made until Tuesday.

We spend more time inside our homes in the winter season. Wisconsin-based American Family Insurance wants to remind people to make our homes safe in the winter season, especially when it comes to carbon monoxide.

A business in Hays is forced to shut down after officials say they were misrepresenting the nature of their services.

The Colorado Supreme Court has upheld a state ban on smoking by actors onstage, ruling that public health trumps actor's freedom of expression.The court ruled 6-1 on Monday that a state indoor smoking ban applies to theaters.

President Barack Obama is asking bank executives to support his efforts to tighten the financial industry, while bankers are prepared to tell the president he should stop oversimplifying their concerns if he wants good-faith collaboration.An hourlong meeting between the president and the nation's top financial firms was shaping up to be a tense ...

President Barack Obama singled out financial institutions for causing much of the economic tailspin and criticized their opposition to tighter federal oversight of their industry.

Maps used by the Victorian Country Fire Authority to help residents avoid the devastation of another Black Saturday are years out of date and contain a raft of embarrassing errors, Crikey can reveal.

The Obama administration took a major step Monday toward imposing the first federal limits on climate-changing pollution from cars, power plants and factories.

THREE towns most at risk this fire season can expect to receive Township Protection Plans over the next week.

Past winners of The Eagle's popular Holiday Pet Photo Contest have included a dog in a snowman suit, a Chinese water dragon in a Santa hat and last year's first-place winner, Frodo, a kitten perched in a Christmas tree.

Holiday decorations, especially candles and electrical lighting, can be fire hazards, and Safe Kids Kansas reminds parents and caregivers to take a few precautions when decorating for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza and other winter festivities.

Shoppers wait online to pay for their goods at Toys 'R' Us in Times Square November 23, 2007 in New York City.

COLUMBUS, Kan. - A meeting is set for today at the Cherokee County Health Department for discussion of plans to close a landfill in the county.

ArtDimensions, 1214 Washington Avenue, will host "Save the Girls," a breast cancer awareness exhibit, from noon to 4 p.m. Friday.

THERE will be no place of last resort for Dunkeld residents trapped in a fire. The Southern Grampians Shire Council has adopted Dunkeld's Township Protection Plan in a special meeting held this week, but won't be developing a Neighbourhood Safer Place for this bushfire season - because of its safety risk.

Author Truman Capote stands in the living room of the Clutter ranch house where four members of the Kansas family were murdered in 1959.

Victorian schools in the potential path of a new wave of bushfires have been left off an emergency register designed to shut them down in the event of another Black Saturday.

AS MANY as 18 of the 52 Victorian towns listed by the State Government as most at risk of bushfire could be without a designated place of last resort for people trying to escape fires this summer.

Bill Brown knew to wait for Nancy and Kenyon Clutter. They never missed Sunday school.

Treece resident Holly Bruner and her 2-year-old son Trenton participated in a town meeting with a delegation from the EPA on a tour of Treece.