Two teenage cousins have been charged with robbing and beating to death a man over a disposable lighter, leaving the victim naked with his clothes piled on top of him in a Near West Side play lot, ...

More than two million disposable lighters are sold every day in the United States. Many of them are made in China, and may have dangerous flaws. Sharyl Attkisson met one Texas family paying the price ...

A recent survey across 11 European countries found that one in ten respondents have had or know someone who has had an accident linked to a pocket lighter. Nearly 75% per cent of imported lighter ...

BIC Corp. and its New York-based vice president and general counsel, Steve Burkhart, are fired up over alleged knockoff lighters that are being made in China and imported into the U.S. BIC general ...

Our ancestors learned to control fire roughly 1.8 million years ago. A lot has changed since then, but the utility of fire remains constant, keeping us warm, cooking our food, and lighting the ...

The Consumer Affairs Agency is urging people to be careful when putting disposable lighters in their pockets. According to the agency, 44 cases involving individuals getting their clothing burned ...

EVERETT — The exhibition opening today at the Schack Art Center is intended to inspire people to action, instead of imposing paralytic fear. Even so, the exhibit does offer a scary view of what is ...

Old lighters seem to have a way of piling up in the junk drawer, even if you try to stay conscientious about not keeping things around when they don't work anymore. The next time you go to clean out ...

Our ancestors learned to control fire roughly 1.8 million years ago. A lot has changed since then, but the utility of fire remains constant, keeping us warm, cooking our food, and lighting the ...