It didn’t take long for legislators to respond to Gov. Mike Beebe’s challenge to buck history and raise Arkansas’ severance tax on natural gas for the first time in a half century. Most of the money will go to maintain …
More than 20 percent of the state-backed insurance company’s roughly 165,000 policyholders may be buying their coverage from private insurers by June 1, insurance officials said. “The number of policies varies, but I would expect it’s probably in the 35,000 …
Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland declared a state of emergency following the recent severe weather in the state. This declaration enables emergency claims adjusters from other states to be temporarily licensed to provide immediate assistance in the insurance claims process. …
Tom Payne has a new and bigger Bigfoot to replace the carving that was stolen from outside his chiropractic clinic and was recovered only after the feet had been amputated. Payne is replacing Sasquatch Sam, mounted outside his clinic for …
An Ogden, Utah woman who was run over by a police truck in 2006 when a police dog nudged it into gear will get $300,000. Mary Frances Stone was walking to her mailbox and suffered fractures to her pelvis when …
Tennessee is taking delivery of mobile homes from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to temporarily house Macon County tornado victims. While FEMA trailers have been scrutinized recently over reports of exposing occupants to relatively high levels of toxins, Jeremy Heidt, …
A group of top Hollywood production houses has demanded $2.56 million in damages from the men behind the Swedish file-sharing web site The Pirate Bay, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry said. The Pirate Bay, which started in 2004, …
The North Carolina Division of Forest Resources has lifted a ban on open burning across the state after recent rains helped reduce the threat of fire. The ban had been in effect since March 27, and The News & Observer …
A small earthquake near the southeast Missouri town of Poplar Bluff Monday morning wasn’t strong enough to cause any damage. National Weather Service meteorologist Alex Dodd says the 2.8 magnitude quake at 5:45 a.m. originated about 4 miles below the …
The state board that regulates doctors will hold a special meeting Wednesday to discuss a Senate resolution calling on the board to fire some of its staff. Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said legislators and the Board of Healing Arts may …