Italy defender Marco Materazzi accepted an apology and undisclosed damages from a British newspaper to settle a libel suit stemming from the World Cup final. The Daily Star tabloid claimed that Materazzi goaded France captain Zinedine Zidane with racist abuse. …
Four former McDonald’s workers will be paid more than $505,000 to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit against the owners of the Durango franchise. The female workers’ then 24-year-old manager allegedly bit the girls’ breasts, grabbed their buttocks and made numerous …
A bridge in Tennessee that is part of the main route to the Memphis International Airport is undergoing emergency repairs. State inspectors found that strong currents on Nonconnah Creek is washing away bed material around a pier’s base on the …
Stephanie Dew has been promoted to vice president of marketing for Rural Special Districts Insurance Services. Dew has served as marketing director for the past three years. Prior to that appointment, she served as account manager at Willis of Arizona …
The National Weather Service released a survey of a recent tornado that went from North Little Rock, Ark., into Sherwood and damaged numerous structures at a cost of millions of dollars. Among the casualties was a tornado siren. The twister, …
A South Carolina textile company that closed after a train wreck and toxic chemical spill in 2005 settled a lawsuit with a railroad company, ending a trial that began a month ago, an attorney for the firm said Monday. Avondale …
North Carolina officials arrested a Pinebluff, N.C. man on three counts of common law forgery, one count of obtaining property by false pretense and one count of falsifying government documents, according to Insurance Commissioner Jim Long. Richard Clyde Caton, 59, …
Florida officials arrested two men in connection with the theft of meters on fire department sprinkler backflows throughout Broward and Dade counties, according to Fire Marshal and Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink. A multi-agency investigation, including the Plantation Fire Department …
The liquidators of two Bear Stearns Cos mortgage hedge funds that collapsed last year, filed suit Monday against the company and its auditor, Deloitte & Touche, seeking to recover over $1 billion in losses. The suit, filed in U.S. District …
A rifle manufacturer asked arms dealers nationwide to make extra safety inspections after discovering it had accidentally shipped four guns loaded with live ammunition. Henry Repeating Arms, a maker of lever-action rifles like ones used in the 1860s and 1870s, …