The operators of a mushroom farm near Vancouver where three workers were killed and two were brain injured in September 2008 when they were overcome by toxic fumes were charged Monday with a series of offences under British Columbia's labour laws.Crown counsel announced a total of 27 charges...

DexCom Inc. said Monday Donald A. Lucas has resigned his seat on the medical device manufacturer's board of directors and audit and compensation committees.Lucas had held a seat on the board for eight years, the company said.DexCom did not say why Lucas resigned.Shares fell 12 cents to $12.62...

Experimental unmanned rockets being developed by California and Texas firms will make multiple test flights to the edge of space under a newly announced NASA funding plan.The space agency said Monday that Masten Space Systems of Mojave, Calif., and Armadillo Aerospace of Rockwall, Texas, have...

An enormous drill began preliminary work Monday on carving a half-mile chimney through solid rock to free the 33 men trapped in a Chilean mine, their ordeal now having equaled the longest known survival in an underground disaster.The 31-ton drill bored 50 feet into the rock, the first step in...

Defense contractor Textron, Inc. said Monday that it was selected to compete for the right to build a new armored vehicle for the Canadian military.Textron said it will submit a proposal for a four-by-four wheeled vehicle outfitted with enough armor to prevent against roadside bombs. The...

Food and Drug Administration investigators have found rodents, seeping manure and even maggots at the Iowa egg farms believed to be responsible for as many as 1,500 cases of salmonella poisoning.FDA officials released their initial observations of the ongoing investigations at Wright County Egg...

The equipment failures blamed for the Gulf oil spill might have been detected if the owners of the Deepwater Horizon continued to have the rig's drilling equipment verified by independent experts ? something federal regulators mistakenly thought was happening offshore.At least three government...

Two New York State legislators want to require farmers in the state to vaccinate their chickens against salmonella.State Sen. Daniel Squadron and Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh announced their proposal Sunday in front of a Lower East Side supermarket. Their idea comes after a nationwide recall of...

French drug giant Sanofi-Aventis SA on Sunday publicly launched its $18.5 billion cash bid for American biotech firm Genzyme Corp. ? a move that follows months of rumored interest and failed attempts to bring Genzyme's management to the table.Under terms of the proposed acquisition, Genzyme...

A Japanese company expects to finish building a $100 million specialty plastics factory in Belle by the end of the month.Manager Tom Provost says the Kureha Corp. factory should start production in November.Kureha has hired 35 people to work there already and expects to have a total of 50...

Since the war began, this southern city and surrounding countryside have been marked as the heartland of the Taliban, the insurgents' springboard to retake all of Afghanistan. It has witnessed some of the bloodiest fighting.Now, as U.S. and allied forces wrestle with urban warlords and take on...

When police arrested a suspected al-Qaida cell in Norway last month they turned up the makings of a bomb lab tucked away in a nondescript Oslo apartment building.An Associated Press investigation shows that authorities learned early on about the alleged cell by intercepting e-mails from an...

The Ashland-Boyd County Health Department has found cartons of eggs recalled for possible salmonella contamination being sold in a local Walmart.Department spokeswoman Kristy Bolen told The Independent the eggs were found on Friday after a complaint was filed. They have now been removed from...

Seven U.S. troops have died in weekend attacks in Afghanistan's embattled southern and eastern regions, while officials found the bodies Sunday of five kidnapped campaign workers for a female candidate in the western province of Herat.Two servicemen died in bombings Sunday in southern...

Deb and Keith Wolf quickly saw an uptick in sales of fresh eggs from their rural Osage home after a recall of tainted eggs that has spanned the nation."I'd say we've noticed it over about a four-, five day-period," said Wolf, who began selling fresh eggs about two years ago."We're just a hobby...

Ravens wide receiver Donte' Stallworth broke his foot in Saturday night's game against the New York Giants and will probably be sidelined for two months.It is unclear when the injury occurred, but it likely occurred during one of Stallworth's three punt returns. He saw limited time on offense...

Roger Lee Hayden compares his chance to ride in Sunday's Moto2 event to an NFL prospect participating in the scouting combine.Hayden normally competes in the Superbike World Championship, but American Honda offered him a ride for the Indianapolis race. The younger brother of MotoGP star Nicky...