Contractors this week will try to eradicate a smelly problem from an industrial sewage lagoon in west central Mississippi.Gary Mickelson, a spokesman for Tyson Foods, said the Arkansas-based poultry company has hired a contractor to remove solid waste near a Tyson plant at Ceres Research and...

Two Iowa farms that recalled more than a half-billion eggs linked to as many as 1,300 cases of salmonella poisoning share suppliers of chickens and feed as well as ties to an Iowa business routinely cited for violating state and federal law.Food and Drug Administration investigators have yet to...

Officials with Umpqua Dairy Products Co. say the company's fluid milk products are back on the shelves and safe to consume.On Aug. 18, the company recalled certain milk and drink products sold in Oregon, southwest Washington and northern California after a strain of salmonella bacteria that has...

Four Muslim men charged with trying to blow up New York synagogues and shoot down military planes will be reunited at their trial with someone who was in on the plot every step of the way: a wire-wearing FBI informant named Shaheed Hussain.The government credits Hussain with rooting out radical...

Two Iowa farms that together recalled more than half a billion potentially tainted eggs this month share close ties, including suppliers of chickens and feed.Both farms are linked to businessman Austin "Jack" DeCoster, who has been cited for numerous health, safety and employment violations...

Two Iowa farms that together recalled more than half a billion potentially tainted eggs this month share close ties, including suppliers of chickens and feed.Both farms are linked to businessman Austin "Jack" DeCoster, who has been cited for numerous health, safety and employment violations...

Two Iowa farms that together recalled more than half a billion potentially tainted eggs this month share close ties, including suppliers of chickens and feed.Both farms are linked to businessman Austin "Jack" DeCoster, who has been cited for numerous health, safety and employment violations...

A Southern California company says it will voluntarily recall eggs from an Iowa farm over fears of salmonella contamination.Luberski Inc. of Fullerton informed federal officials Saturday that it would recall eggs distributed to food wholesalers, retail centers and food service companies in...

Trucks rumbled into Iran's first reactor Saturday to begin loading tons of uranium fuel in a long-delayed startup touted by officials as both a symbol of the country's peaceful intentions to produce nuclear energy as well as a triumph over Western pressure to rein in its nuclear ambitions.The...

Defense contractor BAE Systems plans to lay off 124 workers ? half of the work force ? at its western Pennsylvania plant beginning in mid-October.The company Friday attributed the Fayette County layoffs to a decline in military spending.BAE mostly builds Bradley Fighting Vehicles at the North...

An obscure U.N. board that oversees a $2.7 billion market intended to cut heat-trapping gases has agreed to take steps that could lead to it eventually reining in what European and U.S. environmentalists are calling a huge scam.At a meeting this week that ended Friday, the executive board of...

State officials on Friday reversed course, and said it hasn't found any eggs sold in Alaska linked to the Wright County Egg national recall.The state Department of Environmental Conservation said its Thursday release "associating Olympia Valley eggs with the Wright County Egg recall was...

The California rocketry firm SpaceX says this month's test of a parachute system to land a cargo or crew capsule safely in an ocean was fully successful.The Hawthorne-based company said Friday that on Aug. 12 a capsule was lifted by a helicopter to an altitude of 14,000 feet and released over...

The Rand Group, LLC (TRG), (http://www.randgrp.com/) one of the top business systems consulting firms in the United States, announced today that it is expanding its portfolio of solutions and services with the addition of the Sage ERP X3 (http://www.randgrp.com/prod_x3.asp) product line....

Indiana's unemployment rate continued its slow rise during July, inching up to 10.2 percent even as the state gained about 8,700 jobs mostly in the manufacturing and construction sectors, figures released Friday show.The 319,000 Indiana residents looking for work in July were about 17,000 more...

Authorities in Washington County say a worker was killed at a construction site when a forklift tipped over on top of him.Police haven't released the name of the victim, who died Friday afternoon while working on a home under construction in Fayetteville. Authorities say the man was crushed...

A rare World War II dive bomber was raised 90 feet from the bottom of a San Diego reservoir Friday and awaited a last lift from a crane to reach dry land for the first time in 65 years.The SB2C Helldiver aircraft was brought to the surface after days of work to free it from mud and debris on...

Astronauts can become as weak as 80-year-olds after six months at the International Space Station, according to a new study that raises serious health concerns as NASA contemplates prolonged trips to asteroids and Mars.Marquette University biologist Robert Fitts, who led the study, stresses...

A University of Georgia researcher says he doesn't believe salmonella-contaminated eggs are in Georgia but thinks a recent recall impacting several states could hurt Georgia's billion-dollar poultry industry.Scott Russell, a scientist specializing in salmonella, says he feels "comfortable" that...