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American Airlines has inspected dozens of planes and found three with tiny scratches on the aluminum skin of the fuselage that may have been caused by airport jetbridges used by passengers to walk on and off aircraft.
Federal officials said Tuesday they will beef up inspection of pilot training programs at regional airlines in response to safety concerns raised by the crash of a regional airliner in New York in February.
After the Big Dig tunnel's ceiling collapsed and killed a Boston woman in 2006, lawmakers promised to fix a glaring gap in the country's transportation safety network: the lack of a national highway tunnel inspection program.
Hundreds of C-130 Hercules transport planes, the cargo workhorse of the U.S. Air Force and other military forces around the world, were being inspected Thursday for potential problems with nuts that attach the wings to the fuselage, officials said.
The U.S. government has increasingly relied on food-safety inspections performed by states, where budgets for inspections in many cases have remained stagnant and where overburdened officials are trained less than their federal counterparts and perform skimpier reviews, an Associated Press investigation has found.
A federal probe into a deadly salmonella outbreak has exposed a dirty secret: Food producers in most states are not required to alert health regulators if internal tests show possible contamination at their plants.
Food regulators didn't consider salmonella a threat to most peanut products before they traced an outbreak to a peanut butter plant in Georgia two years ago. Officials in the nation's top peanut-producing state promptly began checking for the bacteria during routine inspections, and everything went fine for about a year.
Kentucky won't double the number of safety inspections at state mines next year because of budget woes, delaying a key reform approved after a series of fatal mining disasters.
A lot can happen in 13 years. A new president. Medical discoveries. Economic boom and bust.
California Highway Patrol records show a charter bus that crashed and killed nine people earlier this month was not inspected for safety because the owner failed to report it as the law required.
In an Oct. 16 story about a safety recommendation on Pratt & Whitney engines, The Associated Press reported the wrong number of jetliners equipped with the PW2037 engine. Pratt & Whitney says that as of May 31 there were 289 aircraft with those engines, not 725.
After finding several passenger aircraft engines with damaged and missing parts, safety officials on Thursday urged the Federal Aviation Administration to order inspections of similar engines, particularly those long in service.
House members chastised the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday for not doing more inspections of foreign drug manufacturers in the wake of a litany of problems with the blood thinner heparin and other products.
U.S. air travelers have endured longer lines, more delays and the loss of amenities like meals and blankets. Now they are getting hit with a wave of schedule disruptions caused by airlines scrambling amid increased regulatory scrutiny to ensure that the expanding air transport system stays safe.
Federal regulators have ordered inspections for hundreds of older model Boeing 737 jetliners after numerous reports of fuel leaks caused by a potentially faulty bolt.
City officials have started inspecting every construction crane in use around New York City after a crane collapse killed seven people last weekend.
Bridge safety leaped to the top of the agenda of federal highway administrator J. Richard Capka in August, when 13 people died in the collapse of a bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis.
PICKAWAY TOWNSHIP, Ohio — At 8:25 every weekday morning, Jim and Judy Little stand on their front porch to make sure their granddaughter, Shelby, gets safely on the school bus that takes her to her elementary school. Then they watch as the bus drives across a bridge that, at the beginning of the school year, was more than a year late for its safety inspection.
Governors around the nation scrambled Thursday to conduct bridge inspections, ordering engineers to review the safety of thousands of structures a day after a span over the Mississippi River collapsed in Minneapolis.
Army officials will visit 11 bases in seven states to study outpatient care, building conditions and the information provided to patients, the Army said Tuesday following revelations about problems at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
More than 80 percent of the city's steel-framed high rise buildings have not been inspected for possible damage from the 1994 Northridge earthquake, and officials said they fear the extent of any problems may not be known until the next big quake hits.
Iran plans to use new centrifuge at atom fuel plantEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran plans to use a new generation of centrifuges for enriching uranium at its newly-disclosed nuclear fuel facility, its atomic energy chief said in remarks published on Tuesday.
Older New England schools have toxic caulkingStudents and staff at hundreds of older schools in New England and other parts of the country face a potential health risk because of toxic caulking in windows and masonry, federal environmental officials say.
Is your hotel or neighborhood pool safe? -- OrlandoSentinel.comSwimmers in Orange County can be more confident this summer that inspectors are checking regularly on the cleanliness and safety of the 2,200 hotel, apartment, neighborhood, school and club pools splashed across the county.
Nestle did its own food-safety inspection at peanut plantNestle decided not to do business with the two Peanut Corporation of America plants invovled in recent major recalls after Nestle's inspectiions a few years ago.
Fire department off pace on hydrant checksThe Tulsa Fire Department has failed to stay on pace with its goal of inspecting a third of the city's fire hydrants each year, data show.
Late bridge inspections put public at riskAt least 17,000 bridges in the U.S. went more than two years between safety inspections, according to federal records analyzed by msnbc.com.
Blix to testify against Iraq war makers?A former UN chief weapons inspector says he is ready to testify about the false US allegations which led to the Iraq war before a tribunal.
Oklahoma elevators grounded after inspectionsState Labor Department officials say more than 100 elevators in the state have been shut down because of safety hazards.
Town Accused Of Falsifying Safety DocumentsThe town of Preston is facing legal action after several school buses failed inspection. The state is taking the town to court for allegedly falsifying school bus safety documents. Inspectors told Eyewitness News that they have never seen such a level of disrepair.
New Nursing Home Ranking SystemThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have just launched an online ranking system for nursing homes across the country. The system judges the facilities based on staff, quality of care, and health inspections.
Dirty Dining: A Special Undercover InvestigationExcerpt: You use your hands all the time, but do you wash them just as often? Every day people are touching dirty surfaces, bodily fluids and then other people. You wouldn't go under the knife with surgeons who hadn't washed their hands.
New inspections find no problems with Ala. bridgesThree deck truss bridges in Alabama have had another round of inspections because they are similar to the Interstate 35 bridge that collapsed in Minneapolis last summer.
Fire at WTC building exposes government lapses"A year ago, more than 100 firefighters ran into the partially demolished building during a fire and had trouble finding their way out. Thick, plastic sheets meant to contain asbestos on some floors also held in smoke.
U.S. Food Safety Programs Lag Behind Other Countries, Says GAOThe FDA lacks farm-to-table tracing systems, which can help accelerate the identification of an outbreak source, such as the still unknown source of the current Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak.
Fenway food stands failed inspectionsFenway Park's food stands flunked city health inspections on more than a dozen health and safety measurements on Red Sox opening day April 8, from storing food at unsafe temperatures to failing to clean food preparation counters.
Gas Pumps Not Always Giving What Customers Paid Forall that stands between you and a cheating gas pump are state inspectors like Bill Masur, who has spent 50 years working with gasoline -- and the last 15 years with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
Lawmaker: Nation's food system is collapsing "But some are concerned about the health of nation's meat inspection system.
Why The Stink Over China's Organic Food " It used to be that you could only find organc food in specialty health food stores. But that has changed as the organic industry is proving to be big business. Now, China is getting in on the action exporting millions of dollars of organic food to the United States.
Iran rejects nuclear inspections unless Israel allows themGENEVA - An Iranian envoy said Monday his government will not submit to extensive nuclear inspections while Israel stays outside the global treaty to curb the spread of atomic weapons.
FAA Inspectors Overstretched, Inspections Overseas, Oversight Overlooked this Long?Recent revelations about the FAA and Southwest Airlines (you may be free to move about the country, but at your own risk), and further inspection shenanigans highlight what we already knew but were too focused on getting through security without contracting athletes' foot to noti …
U.S. Alarmed as Some Exports Veer Off Course to Iran, Syria, Pakistan and Iraqi IEDsWASHINGTON — Roadside bombings of American troops in Iraq were occurring with unnerving regularity when military investigators made a disturbing discovery: American-made computer circuits sold to a trading company in the United Arab Emirates had turned up in the bomb detonators …
Gussets, public servants both let Minnesota downThe head of the National Transportation Safety Board says inspections of the Interstate 35W bridge would not have found flaws in the design of the bridge, which opened in 1967.
Americans demand foreign food saftety and standards Foreign foodstuffs are pouring into America with no inspections or standards of safety being applied.
Caution greets North Korea moves - Los Angeles TimesThe Bush administration's good-cop strategy toward North Korea appears to have paid off for now, with the communist regime promising to meet with United Nations weapons inspectors today as a first step toward decommissioning its nuclear reactor.
Tainted Chinese Imports CommonFor years, U.S. inspection records show, China has flooded the United States with foods unfit for human consumption. And for years, FDA inspectors have simply returned to Chinese importers the small portion of those products they caught -- many of which turned up at U.S.
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