The National Hurricane Center reported at 11 a.m. EDT on July 21 that Tropical Storm Dolly had crossed Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and entered the Gulf of Mexico. A hurricane watch was issued for the Texas coast from Brownsville northward to …
A San Joaquin County, Calif., farmer has been indicted for allegedly filing false claims for crop insurance benefits. Federal investigators say 47-year-old Gregory Peter Torlai Jr. of Stockton, Calif., filed six false claims for losses on wheat and safflower between …
U.S. property/casualty insurers are expected to pay homeowners and businesses an estimated $6.025 billion for second quarter property losses resulting from a total of 16 catastrophes in 27 states, which is nearly double the number of catastrophes in the first …
As federal investigators converged on a Houston oil refinery July 19 where a crane collapse killed four and injured seven others, the company that owns the 30-story-tall crane released the names of the dead workers. The four men killed in …
Tropical Storm Cristobal, the first tropical storm to menace the Southeast seaboard this hurricane season, sent outer bands of intermittent rain lashing the eastern Carolinas July 19 as forecasters predicted it could dump several inches in some areas of drought-stricken …
North Carolina officials announced a recall of fresh jalapeño peppers and avocados distributed in North Carolina after samples from a food distributor tested positive for salmonella. The N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services said in a statement that it …
An insurance agency owner charged with killing a North Carolina Department of Insurance employee investigating his business won’t face the death penalty, prosecutors said. Prosecutors didn’t explain the July 17 decision revealed during a court hearing for Michael Howell, 40, …
A tractor-trailer caught fire and sideswiped a Department of Corrections van on Interstate 85 in South Carolina, injuring four inmates and trapping four other inmates inside the vehicle. The Anderson Independent-Mail reported firefighters said a tire blowout led to the …
Johnson & Johnson last Thursday won a lawsuit brought by the family of an 11-year-old girl who became blind after using the drug Children’s Motrin in 2003. The painkiller is made by Johnson & Johnson’s McNeil consumer healthcare unit. The …
Traffic fatalities in Maine this July are on pace to be among the highest on record. Seventeen people lost their lives on the state’s roads as of Friday, July 18, an average of about one death a day. Spokesman Stephen …