California utility company Pacific Gas & Electric pleaded guilty Tuesday to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter for causing the deadly and massive Camp Fire, which tore through communities in the northern part of the state in 2018 in what is considered the worst wildfire in modern state history."Our equipment started that fire," PG&E Corp. CEO…
The 2018 Camp Fire killed 85 people in all and destroyed nearly 19,000 buildings. Noah Berger/AP hide caption toggle caption Noah Berger/AP The 2018 Camp Fire killed 85 people in all and destroyed nearly 19,000 buildings. Noah Berger/AP Pacific Gas & Electric pleaded guilty on Tuesday to 84 separate counts of involuntary manslaughter and one…
Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY Published 2:26 p.m. ET June 16, 2020 | Updated 4:49 p.m. ET June 16, 2020CLOSE Pacific Gas & Electric and lawyers for victims of the 2017 and 2018 Northern California Wildfires agreed to a multibillion-dollar legal settlement. Buzz60The country’s largest utility pleaded guilty Tuesday to 84 felony counts of involuntary…
The California utility agreed to pay a nearly $2 billion fine for causing the blaze, which killed dozens and destroyed the town of Paradise.A transmission line from a Pacific Gas & Electric tower started California’s most devastating fire in 2018, killing scores and destroying the town of Paradise. Credit...Jim Wilson/The New York TimesJune 16, 2020Updated…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…