Conservation officials announced that thanks to the federal stimulus bill, Oklahoma is in line for $25 million to rehabilitate high-hazard earthen dams that provide flood protection across the state. They said Oklahoma is expected to get $12.1 million of that …
A federal judge in Missouri has upheld most of an $8.5 million judgment awarded to a woman who lost use of her arm due to a flesh-eating bacteria misdiagnosed by an Air Force base doctor. Magistrate Judge Philip Frazier last …
The U.S. government and four states sued Dish Network Corp on Wednesday, accusing the satellite television provider of assisting its authorized dealers in calling consumers with recorded telemarketing messages. The marketing calls were made to some consumers who signed up …
Ron Kurth, who grew up in Gary, Ind., and worked in the steel mills, raised his family in the region near the outskirts of Chicago. He always wondered about the smoke and smog that overcast the Lake Michigan shoreline. “It’s …
The town of Westport, S.D., north of Aberdeen is being flooded by the Elm River and South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds has signed an emergency declaration allowing the use of state resources to help towns and cities respond to flooding. …
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ordered those responsible for a 2003 forest fire in central Wisconsin to pay double damages to victims whose property was destroyed. Among the many victims who will benefit from the ruling is former Justice Jon …
New York’s top court has dismissed a lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester involving a priest who was accused of having a sexual relationship with a woman he was counseling. The Court of Appeals says the woman, identified …
Firefighters are digging by hand to try to free a construction worker who was buried up to his neck in dirt after a trench collapsed along a sewer line in Richmond. Richmond Fire Lt. Shawn Jones says emergency crews were …
A mother and son are facing arson charges for allegedly setting fire to a four-unit apartment house in Sanford next door to a complex where they lived. Police and fire officials told the Journal Tribune in Biddeford that 46-year-old Janice …
Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland said she is “grossly disappointed and frankly mad” about a continuing backlog of more than 200,000 unpaid health insurance claims in a state workers’ insurance plan. “That is just absolutely unacceptable,” Holland said of the …