California's Santa Clara County, better known as Silicon Valley, has been the center of furious innovation at least since Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard started their company in a rented garage in Palo ...

City Housing Authority officials engaged in a “nefarious scheme” to exempt apartments from requirements that they be annually inspected for lead paint — even though they can’t confirm those units ...

Two of President George W. Bush's Cabinet appointees have an unlikely issue in common -- a Houston company's potential legal liability for past use of its lead paint. Denver lawyer Gale Norton, Bush's ...

The Housing Authority of Baltimore city cannot make itself immune from suit for lead paint poisoning in its residential units by failing to insure against such liability, the Court of Special Appeals ...