BROADSTONE, England -- We talk a lot about plastic and paper straws, but a woman in England died after she fell onto a metal drinking straw that impaled her eye, according to a newspaper in the U.K.

Last week, my wife, Sally, and I dropped the kids at a friend's house and headed to Shelter Island for a night at the Pridwin Hotel and Cottages. (I recommend it.) We had cocktails before dinner at ...

A retired jockey died in a freak accident after she fell onto a metal drinking straw that impaled her eye and caused brain damage, an inquest in England heard this week. According to The Telegraph, ...

Last week, my wife, Sally, and I dropped off the kids at a friend’s house and got out of town for the night. We went to Shelter Island, on the far eastern edge of Long Island, between the Hamptons and ...

The bill would preempt local governments from enacting single-use plastic bans without adding environmental requirements for alternatives.

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In an Indiana warehouse area on Lafayette's north end, little plastic chips are fed into a machine to be colored red and spun into the shape of a drinking straw. As the long, continuous straw makes ...

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