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Over the last three decades, California's workers' compensation system has awarded millions of dollars in benefits for job-related injuries to thousands of professional athletes.

A coal-mine safety rule, proposed two years ago but not yet adopted, might have prevented recent deaths of miners, including one last week, according to safety experts and the industry's National Mining Association.

As the trial against BP stemming from the 2010 explosion of a drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico began here Monday morning, the details of a settlement offer by federal and state officials to the oil company to emerge.

After enduring last summer's destructive drought, farmers, ranchers and officials across the parched Western states had hoped that plentiful winter snows would replenish the ground and refill their rivers, breaking the grip of one of the worst dry spells in American history. No such luck.

A report by Mandiant, an American computer security firm, tracks for the first time individual members of the most sophisticated of Chinese hacking groups.

After more than half a decade of Somali men attacking Indian Ocean shipping from small speedboats with AK-47s, grappling hooks and ladders, the number of attacks is falling fast. The last merchant ship to be successfully hijacked, naval officers monitoring piracy say, was at least nine months ago.

When an outside analysis uncovered serious flaws with thousands of home loans, JPMorgan Chase executives found an easy fix.

When Baltimore's Gardiners furniture lost a Super Bowl bet with its customers, forced to give away $600,000 in furniture because the Ravens' Jacoby Jones returned a kick return for a touchdown, the store owners couldn't have been happier. Because they didn't have to pay up. Their insurance company did.

Two of the Great Lakes have hit their lowest water levels ever recorded after more than a decade of below-normal rain and snowfall and higher temperatures. The low water has caused heavy economic losses by forcing cargo ships to carry lighter loads, leaving boat docks high and dry, and damaging fish-spawning areas.

When the lights went out in New Orleans, it caused a 34-minute delay with the whole world watching.

Mardi Gras will take a back seat to the Super Bowl this week, as the carnival has been put on hold by Mayor Mitch Landrieu, who believes having the two major tourist events at the same time would overburden an already thin police force.

Security pros and government officials warn of a possible cyber 9/11 involving banks, utilities, other companies or the Internet.

N.J. Gov. Chris Christie's decision to toughen guidelines for rebuilding following Superstorm Sandy is drawing praise from the insurance industry.

The hacker group Anonymous has briefly shut down a website belonging to the US Justice Department, following a warning by the Homeland Security about an imminent 9/11-style cyber attack.

Global crop insurance claims were the highest ever last year after drought cut yields in the U.S. Claims worldwide were worth about $23 billion in 2012, with $15 billion going to growers in the U.S.