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Ryobi brand drills sold at Home Depot stores are being recalled after the company received nearly four dozen complaints of them overheating, smoking and even catching fire, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said. About 455,000 of the cordless drills are subject to the recall. The...

GM is recalling nearly 4,000 2010 Cadillac SRX crossovers to repair power steering lines that may get damaged and leak fluid, the automaker said Thursday. The problem has resulted in at least one fire, but GM said there have been no crashes or injuries as a result of the defect.

An explosion and fireball rocked San Bruno, Calif., destroying 53 homes and killing at least one person. The explosion apparently came from a high-pressure gas line. Fire shot hundreds of feet into the air at 6.15 pm local time Thursday, KTVU reported. More than 20 people were taken to hospital...

Federal authorities will reportedly take over efforts on Tuesday to control a stubborn wildfire burning along Colorado's highly-populated Front Range region, a day after the fire began outside of Boulder.

Ferrari is recalling more than 1,200 of its 458 Italia sports cars because of a design flaw that can make them spontaneously combust. To date, at least five of the $250,000 supercars have burst into flames in Paris, Switzerland, California, China and another unnamed location, the Daily Mail...

Bella Kitchen slow cookers sold at Kohl's Department Stores are being recalled after dozens of reports of overheating and three fires, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said. The Chinese-made slow cookers, distributed by the Canadian company Sensio Inc., have a defect in their control...

Here's news from the business world and other money matters to watch out for Wednesday (last updated at 8:00 a.m. Eastern time): Stocks Dive On Drop In Home Sales: Weak housing numbers sent stocks tumbling Tuesday in New York, after a report by the National Association of Realtors showed...

A fire at the Majdanek concentration camp in Poland has destroyed one of the wooden barracks and about 10,000 shoes of Holocaust prisoners displayed at the Nazi death site. The Majdanek museum says the cause of the fire is suspected to be electrical. Damage is estimated at 1 million zlotys, or...

Prices for the staple crop have jumped 50% since late June, topping $7 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade. A prolonged drought in Russia, one of the world's largest wheat exporters, has severely damaged crops, and wildfires have swept through some agricultural areas.

Husqvarna is recalling a series of riding lawn tractors sold this year after getting more than 50 complaints of damaged fuel lines, something that could cause a fire, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said. The CPSC said the fuel line to the rear-mounted fuel tank is too long and can get...