Lying on a hospital bed with fractures throughout his body, George Beden was told by doctors that he should stifle any urge to resume the usual maintenance of his Nixa home. Beden's neck, ribs, ...

Over the years, fire departments long have recognized the importance of carrying portable ground ladders on their apparatus. Engine company units typically have been equipped with a minimum of three ...

Jorma Taccone, the Lonely Island member and former Saturday Night Live writer, suffered a shattered pelvis and a detached sacrum in a 20-foot fall from a ladder at his farmhouse in Connecticut.