Sharon Glass fought back tears after hearing she may not be able to return to her flood-damaged home. “I just wonder how a judgment call could be made before FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) officials have even set up shop,” …
Federal investigators said Tuesday that “epoxy creep” was a major factor in the Big Dig accident one year ago that killed a Boston woman when concrete tunnel ceiling panels fell and crushed her car, federal investigators said Tuesday. Investigators with …
Federal mining regulators cited a western Maryland coal operator Monday for failing to ensure the safety of two workers who died when the side of an open-pit mine collapsed in April, burying the men beneath 93,000 tons of rubble. The …
A federal judge in New Orleans on June 9 withdrew an order challenging U.S. Attorney David Dugas for not intervening in a whistleblowers’ lawsuit that accuses insurance companies of overbilling the federal government for flood damage in Louisiana from Hurricane …
It was a dramatic end to a trial that pitted Notre Dame football coach Charlie Weis against two respected surgeons: a juror collapsed, the doctors rushed to his aid and the judge declared a mistrial. Some in the legal community …
A school bus driver, alerted by another motorist’s flashing headlights, pulled his smoking vehicle to the side of the road in time to get everyone off before the bus was engulfed in flames. Seventeen 3- and 4-year-olds from a day …
Rhode Island crews were working Monday evening to restore electricity to six state departments that lost power earlier in the day because of an underground electrical fire, officials said. The outages at the Pastore Campus affected the departments of corrections; …
The American Insurance Association (AIA) today urged Wisconsin legislators to reject two bills that would make it illegal for insurers to provide their customers valuable information after a car accident. “These bills are anti-consumer. Direct repair programs provide consumers with …
A small plane trying to make an emergency landing crashed into a suburban Orlando, Fla., neighborhood Tuesday morning, starting two house fires and injuring at least three people, authorities said. Both homes were largely gutted by the flames, and smoke …
A man convicted of trying to sell the Social Security numbers and other information for thousands of people to undercover agents was sentenced to five years in federal prison, authorities said. Binyamin Schwartz, 29, of Oak Park, Mich., was convicted …