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Hurricane Sandy's environmental impact is still being assessed, but 45 toxic-waste sites are within a half-mile of coastal areas vulnerable to storm surge.

Four women allegedly committed insurance fraud when they staged the crashing of a rented a U-Haul truck after buying $1 million liability coverage. The plan was foiled after detectives realized that the players were Facebook friends.

Homeowners in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut could save thousands of dollars in insurance costs after several state governors declared that Sandy did not make landfall as a hurricane, exempting them from insurers' hurricane deductibles.

America's forecasting ability could have gone "partly blind" just a few days before Hurricane Sandy struck.

Art thieves robbed the Pretoria Art Museum of five paintings worth more than $2 million, but they tossed a sixth work, the most valuable piece in their haul.

Sandy was terrible, but we're currently in a relative hurricane 'drought,' says an environmental studies professor. Connecting energy policy and disasters makes little scientific sense.

This week six scientists and one government official were sentenced to six years in prison for manslaughter, for making "falsely reassuring" comments before the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake. But was this fair?

By choosing to stay silent, Lance Armstrong has made it difficult for anyone to view him as a victim, or to position himself as a remorseful future advocate against performance-enhancing drug use.

The analysis, which focused only on the North Atlantic, concluded that the frequency of hurricanes with large storm surges has been increasing since 1923 due partly to warmer oceans.

Gallery owners and employees sorted through the artworks that had been hanging on their walls or were packed in their storage rooms, separating those that were irrevocably damaged from those that stood a good chance of being restored.

Insurers are keeping a close eye on Hurricane Sandy as it churns north across the Atlantic Ocean, preparing to dispatch rapid-response teams to the hardest hit areas once the storm passes.

Forecasters warned that the New York City region could face the worst of Hurricane Sandy as it bore down on the U.S. East Coast's largest cities Monday, forcing the shutdown of financial markets and mass transit, sending coastal residents fleeing and threatening high winds, rain and a wall of water up to 11 feet tall. It could endanger up to 50 million people for days.

Hurricane Sandy grounded thousands of flights in the U.S. northeast Monday and upended travel plans across the globe, stranding passengers from Hong Kong to Europe. The massive storm threatens to bring a near halt to air travel for at least two days in a key region for both domestic and international flights.

Hurricane Sandy, the monster storm bearing down on the U.S. East Coast, strengthened on Monday after hundreds of thousands moved to higher ground, public transport shut down and the U.S. stock market suffered its first weather-related closure in 27 years.

The projected storm surge from Hurricane Sandy is a "worst case scenario" with devastating waves and tides predicted for the highly populated New York City metro area, government forecasters said Sunday.