A sinkhole that first appeared about the size of a basketball has grown to an 8-foot-wide, $1 million dollar problem that’s interfering with passenger rail service to Memphis, Tennessee. Officials of the city and Canadian National Railway said July 8 …
West Virginia salvage company workers caused a huge fire in Grafton when sparks from metal-cutting torches made contact with piles of old, dry rubbish. Grafton Fire Chief Craig Crimm said no one was injured in the July 8 blaze, which …
Regional property/casualty insurer Harleysville Group Inc. reported that estimated second quarter catastrophe losses from storms in the Midwest and elsewhere will be the most the insurer has faced in a quarter in more than 20 years. The losses will reduce …
A fall from a platform area at Alstom Power Inc. in Chattanooga, Tennessee killed a 48-year-old man. Police said investigators are trying to pinpoint the cause of the fall from a height of more than 30 feet on July 8. …
As an insurance agency you know how important your existing customers are but for your business to grow and prosper new business is extremely important. It doesn’t matter whether you are selling home insurance, auto insurance, business insurance, health insurance, …
A large number of exteme weather events pummeled the United States in the first half of the year, and worldwide 2008 may go down in history as a year with one of the highest number of natural catastrophe victims, according …
A new panel of state lawmakers, relief workers and emergency directors will start meeting this month to streamline Wisconsin’s disaster statutes and clarify how the stte legislature should work if a crisis forces it to meet outside Madison. Wisconsin’s emergency …
A 58-year-old woman in Lower Township, New Jersey is recovering after being run over by her own car. The accident happened Monday afternoon when Patricia Shephard was pulling out of her driveway of her Lower Township home and forgot she …
The rural area to the northeast of Denver, Colo., tops the nation when it comes to regions most prone to tornados, according to Boston-based CDS Business Mapping LLC, an online hazard mapping firm. The top 10 most tornado prone metro-areas …
A report by an automobile insurer concludes that Oklahoma City drivers are less likely than Tulsa drivers to be involved in traffic collisions. “Its kind of weird,” Lt. Roger Bratcher of the Oklahoma City Police Department’s Traffic Fatality Unit said …