Former Southern California insurance agent Mark Brashear of San Marcos was sentenced to three years in state prison by the San Diego Superior Court, the California Department of Insurance reported. On Feb. 19, Brashear pled guilty to two felony counts …
A Delaware state fire official says it took firefighters from across the state four hours to control a three-alarm blaze at a Milford hotel under construction. Chief Deputy State Fire Marshal B. Scott Bullock says about 75 percent of the …
Federal workplace safety officials proposed fining a chemical company $121,500 for a toxic leak that led to an acid cloud and forced hundreds of western Pennsylvania residents to evacuate. Indspec Chemical Corp. committed 27 serious safety violations when oleum leaked …
Two self-proclaimed experts at trading stocks who used late-night infomercials to tout their abilities are now on trial in federal court on fraud charges. Prosecutors say Linda Woolf of Sandy, Utah, and David Gengler of Draper, Utah represented themselves as …
Violent weather that struck Georgia on April 10 caused an estimated $60 million in insured losses, according to Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John W. Oxendine. “That’s a preliminary figure from the insurance companies we’ve surveyed so far,” Oxendine said. …
More severe weather downed trees, temporarily closed some streets and roads and put flood recovery and damage assessment efforts from prior storms on hold in north Florida and the Panhandle. Officials were worried thunderstorms that produced high winds, hail and …
A large fire destroyed much of a city block in downtown Johnson City, Tenn. No injuries were immediately reported in the fire that broke out Monday night. But firefighters were still waiting to fully search the site for any possible …
The Southeast United States Seismic Network says a small earthquake occurred over the weekend along the West Virginia-Virginia border. The network says the quake had a magnitude of 2.4 and occurred at approximately 11:09 a.m. Saturday. The quake struck about …
The National Weather Service has upgraded the strength of a tornado that killed a woman and her infant daughter when it hit Murfreesboro last week and said a second tornado touched down in the county. The weather service office in …
In Kentucky, it’s tornadoes, torrential rain or ice-encrusted trees and power lines, weather emergencies seemingly all the time. But state officials also want to be prepared for the possibility of a disease outbreak or manmade emergencies like a hazardous chemical …