By IAN URBINA and MATTHEW L. WALD Published: September 22, 2009   WASHINGTON — Federal safety officials warned city transit systems nationwide on Tuesday about a dangerous flaw that may fool safety systems into indicating that a track is empty when it is actually occupied.   The warning was part of a federal investigation into ... Read more

By ELIZABETH BANICKI LOS ANGELES (CN) – Three ski patrolmen died at a volcanic vent at Mammoth Mountain ski resort, and two of their families say the United States is to blame for failing to warn about the fumarole and the poisonous gases that escape from it.   The three men died in April 2006 ... Read more

BY SCOTT FITZGERALD LEE NEWSPAPERS 09/16/2009   MARION, Ill. — A 65-year-old Southern Illinois woman died days after she was burned in a fire in an operating room, a lawyer for her family says.   Attorney Robert Howerton of Marion says a state of Tennessee death certificate shows that Janice Diane McCall of Energy, Ill., ... Read more

By DANIELLE JOHNSON Updated 10:47 PM EDT, Tue, Sep 15, 2009   Lower Township, N.J. police have charged John Lawless, 37, with death by auto after he crashed into another driver head-on, on Route 9 Saturday night. Fredrick Shelton, 50, died at the scene. Police said Lawless has a history of drunken driving, according to ... Read more

By Thom Weidlich and David Glovin   Sept. 9 (Bloomberg) — Merck & Co. lost a legal bid to dismiss 24 lawsuits claiming its osteoporosis drug Fosamax causes ‘jaw death’ in patients who took the medicine for fewer than three years.   U.S. District Judge John Keenan in New York, in a ruling released today, ... Read more