Manufacturers delivered nearly 200 airtight refuge chambers to West Virginia coal mines. State regulators became the first in the nation to mandate the chambers after 12 trapped men died after a January 2006 explosion at the Sago Mine. The chambers …
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited an Athens, Georgia manufacturing plant for 32 alleged safety violations and proposed $137,000 in fines. OSHA cited Overhead Door Corp.’s Athens plant. It said that in recent inspections it found machines operating …
A Florida jury found a tanker truck driver guilty of vehicular homicide for a fiery crash in 2005 that killed four people, including the mother of former Washington Capitals center Jeff Halpern. A jury on Sept. 12 found 36-year-old Flavio …
The federal government opened disaster loan centers in two North Carolina cities that were flooded by remnants from Tropical Storm Fay last month. The U.S. Small Business Administration said centers opened Sept. 13 in Charlotte and Concord. The centers will …
Three men have been arrested for allegedly dumping asbestos tiles in the protected wetlands area known as Florida’s Green Swamp. Forty-three loads of debris containing asbestos from a demolition site at Florida Southern College were allegedly dropped there from July …
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Insurer American International Group Inc., working to stave off rating downgrades [See related article] and shore up the capital of its holding company, has made an unprecedented approach to the Federal Reserve seeking $40 billion in short-term financing, the New …
Although Galveston, Texas, is expected to experience the brunt of the storm, Hurricane Ike is a very, very large storm, extending nearly 900 miles across according to some estimates. Louisiana figured it might have been given a reprieve earlier in …
Here’s a look at some of the evacuations, updates and closures ordered by officials in Texas in advance of Hurricane Ike: MANDATORY EVACUATIONS (with approximate population totals, where available): Brazoria County (288,000 people) Jefferson County (244,000) Orange County (84,000) Galveston …
A man described by prosecutors as a “straw man” who helped conceal an unlicensed bond broker’s illegal insurance business has pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge. Sixty-seven-year-old James Zoucha of Oceanside, Calif., faces up to five years in prison and …