By Bob Van Voris   May 20 (Bloomberg) — R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. must pay $29.1 million to Connie Buonomo, the widow of a Florida man who started smoking at age 13 and died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in 2008, a jury in Fort Lauderdale said.   The unanimous verdict today by six state ... Read more

May 19, 2010 By JDJournal.com   Residents have filed a class action lawsuit in New Jersey State Court, Hudson County against Honeywell International of New Jersey and PPG Industries of Pennsylvania for dumping and failing to clean up cancer-causing hexavalent chromium waste in their neighborhoods.   According to today’s press release at PR Newswire, the ... Read more

By Bill Hendrick WebMD Health News     May 17, 2010 — Nearly 2 million toy dart gun sets that have been linked to two asphyxiation deaths in the Midwest are being recalled by Charlotte, N.C.-based Family Dollar Stores, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said today.   The China-made toys, sold exclusively at Family ... Read more

April 10, 2010 By: Matthew Mosk, ABC News   Over the past two years, controversial coal boss Don Blankenship has twice agreed to courtroom settlements requiring his company to clean up a checkered safety record, yet federal documents show Massey Energy mines continued to rack up serious violations in advance of the explosion that killed ... Read more

Posted April 1, 2010 By: Wytv.com Three Marine recruits were killed after an accident involving at least seven vehicles in Warren Township Wednesday afternoon.   Along with a driver and another recruit, the three had been headed to Cleveland to take their military entrance exams.   “I’ve done this probably 100 times,” said Lt. Joe Dragovich, commander of the Warren ... Read more