MISSOULA, Mont. -- A medical expert testifying Tuesday in the W.R. Grace trial described his disbelief when, arriving in Libby 10 years ago, he found that people who had never worked at the W. R.

Center for Asbestos Related Disease officials, aided by the federal government, are fighting back against railroad giant BNSF Railway’s effort to seize its assets and shutter operations. The Lincoln ...

WASHINGTON -- Libby residents would receive special treatment in a bill that aims to stanch the flood of lawsuits related to asbestos exposure. The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to take up ...

HELENA – For residents of Libby ravaged by asbestos-related diseases, U.S. Sen. Max Baucus has delivered on health care – including special government coverage like nowhere else in America. “Just ...

LIBBY, Mont. — Long before she joined a major legal case for asbestos victims, Joyce Walder had a bold streak, according to her sister, Judith Hemphill. On a recent Monday in October, walking through ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — An attorney for a ...

Behind-the-scenes defense maneuvering couldn't keep a sickened Libby businessman off the witness stand Thursday as jurors in the W.R. Grace & Co. trial heard testimony about asbestos exposures at an ...

A panel of federal judges on Tuesday appeared skeptical of arguments from lawyers for two deceased plaintiffs that railroad giant BNSF Railway is liable for past asbestos contamination at its rail ...

In the northwestern Montana town of Libby, asbestos contamination from a former W.R. Grace vermiculite mine has been blamed for sickening hundreds of people, some fatally. Their claims represent about ...

MISSOULA, Mont. W.R. Grace and Co. and seven senior employees were charged in an indictment released Monday with conspiring for decades to hide the dangers posed by asbestos contamination in a Montana ...

HELENA — Libby s deadly experience with asbestos is being put to beneficial use in New York City, where rescue workers and residents are concerned about asbestos and other possible toxic fallout from ...

HELENA, Mont. -- Montana Gov. Judy Martz Thursday endorsed listing Libby as a federal Superfund cleanup site to deal with asbestos contamination linked to 200 deaths in the northwestern Montana mining ...