Relatively calm weather gave firefighters a boost as they bolstered lines around a human-caused blaze that burned 4,425 acres and nine homes in central New Mexico’s Manzano Mountains. Wind picked up briefly and a few spot fires popped up outside …
Travelers Cos. Inc., one of the largest property insurers in the United States, said Thursday that earnings fell 11 percent in the first quarter, as catastrophe losses in the quarter more than doubled and investment income fell. The St. Paul, …
Government geologists have a clearer picture of what The Big One might look like in Utah. The U.S. Geological Survey has published new hazard maps, which show that the worst-case earthquake has been elevated to magnitude 7.4 on the 240-mile …
North Carolina officials arrested a Newport, N.C. woman and charged her with one count of embezzlement by an insurance agent, according to Insurance Commissioner Jim Long. Heather Dawn Cagle, 34, who worked as an agent for Chalk & Gibbs insurance …
Cold nights across the North West Coast are hitting vineyards throughout the region hard. After a long string of unseasonably low nighttime temperatures, officials estimate as much as 10 to 15 percent of Sonoma County’s $400 million crop has been …
A Wisconsin appeals court has given a major legal victory to the estate of a deceased woman suing for medical malpractice damages. The District 1 Court of Appeals says the estate of Tywanda Luckett can argue that she was able …
The American Academy of Actuaries appointed Grace Hinchman as its new executive director. Hinchman was previously the senior vice president of public affairs and technical activities for Financial Executives International, a professional association of chief financial officers, controllers, treasurers, and …
Lexington, Kentucky authorities have detonated a homemade bomb found in the bed of a pickup truck at Central Baptist Hospital. The device was brought to the hospital by a patient. Central Baptist spokeswoman Ruth Ann Childers says a boy needed …
Tennessee defense attorneys would be banned from advertising their expertise with drunken driving cases under a bill advancing in the Senate. Sen. Rosalind Kurita, a Clarksville Democrat, successfully added the provision to a bill on April 22 that would create …
Even critics credited Patricia Lancaster for trying to reform New York City’s inefficient, corruption-riddled Buildings Department. During her six years as commissioner, she rewrote an outdated building code, created online databases for nearly 1 million city properties, stepped up inspections …