Another Chicago police officer has been indicted in connection with a scheme to have his car towed away and declared stolen for insurance money. The U.S. attorney’s office says Officer Scott Campbell was charged on August 11 with fraud in …
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that its ratings and outlooks on ING Groep N.V. (currently ‘AA-‘ – Stable – ‘A-1+’) and related entities are unchanged following the publication of the Group’s second quarter results, which showed a 25 percent …
Insurance broker, Prakash Akatrai, aka Peter Akatrai, surrendered himself at the Downey, Calif., Police Station and was booked on six counts of felony grand theft by embezzlement, according to the California Department of Insurance. Akatrai allegedly issued a false certificate …
A private plane was aloft for about a minute and flew three miles before crashing into a rented vacation home in Gearhart, Ore. last week, a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board said. The crash killed Julia Reimann, …
Firefighters continue to battle a wildfire on Eastern Washington’s Colville Indian Reservation where more than 34 square miles of grass and sagebrush have burned. Fire spokeswoman Cindy Bork says more than 700 firefighters, supported by aircraft, are fighting the Columbia …
A wildfire west of Elmo, Mont. has grown to 1,050 acres and more than 200 firefighters were on the scene. The Deep Draw fire grew by 450 acres in steep, rocky and timbered terrain near Montana 28 about eight miles …
Creativity after disaster is the theme of a program August 27 at the New Orleans Museum of Art. The museum will show two short films, followed by a conversation with filmmakers Mel Chin and Ivor Shearer. Chin’s animated film, “9-11/9-11,” …
City leaders in Palo, Iowa said they have spent the city’s entire general fund budget on flood recovery. Officials said the town, which has about 900 residents and a $300,000 budget, is out of money. City Hall alone sustained $465,000 …
A former football player at Evansville High School in Wisconsin and her mother have filed a federal lawsuit alleging discrimination by coaches and staff. Ivyanne Elborough alleges she broke her clavicle as a freshman member of the football team because …
Two Fosston men are charged with first-degree arson in a string of fires that burned buildings in northwestern Minnesota. Levi Coyer and Nick Schouviller, both 19 years old, were arrested in Fosston. The August 3rd fires damaged and, in some …