Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that a Travis County district court sentenced David John Beatty of Flower Mound, Texas, on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The court sentenced Beatty to five years’ probation and 100 hours of community service. It also …
President Barack Obama has declared North Dakota a federal disaster area because of statewide flooding. North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven says the move means the federal government will pay 75 percent of state and local government costs for the flood …
The Diocese of Burlington is asking Vermont’s highest court to throw out an $8.7 million verdict awarded to a former altar boy who says his molestation at the hands of a parish priest was partly the church’s fault. The Vermont …
A 3-mile section of state Route 10 in Virginia has reopened after being shut down for three hours yesterday because of a chemical leak and fire at a Hopewell plant. Evonic Goldschmidt Corp. said a small amount of sodium chlorite …
An Ohio man is suing Continental Airlines Inc. for raising the number of miles needed to earn a free trip and then charging him $75 to book the flight. David Simon’s lawyer asked a federal court to approve class-action status …
Torres Hillsdale Country Cheese LLC based in Reading, Mich., is recalling its Asadero and Oaxaca soft Mexican-style cheeses due to possible listeria contamination. The products were distributed to retailers and delis in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina, …
Michael C. Madsen of Bellevue, Wash., has been convicted in King County Superior Court for filing a fraudulent insurance claim, a class C felony. The charges against Madsen stem from two separate incidents in which he claimed the loss of …
Investigators are trying to determine if a firefighter charged with the latest fires in an arson-plagued suburb of southeast Pennsylvania could be responsible for any other unsolved blazes. Robert Tracey Jr., of Coatesville, was charged Monday with lighting two small …
An overheated wood stove is believed to have been the cause of a house fire in Robbinston, Maine that forced a woman, her grandson and two dogs to drop from a second-story window to escape the flames. Fire Chief Robert …
A federal judge in Charleston, South Carolina has approved a settlement requiring the company that prepared taxes for a former Charleston Southern University economist currently in prison for fraud to pay almost $1 million to settle investor claims. The settlement …