A former senior vice president of Twin City (Ark.) Bank was sentenced April 22 to 57 months in prison after he pleaded guilty in December to two federal fraud charges that accused him of stealing more than a million dollars …
Farmers in four northwest Missouri counties may have unwittingly dumped millions of pounds of carcinogen-laced sludge on their fields, which may be linked to a rash of brain tumors in the area, environmental activist Erin Brockovich told a worried group …
State workplace safety officials have fined a Clear Lake, Iowa, company more than $357,000 for an accident that killed a Latimer man. Thirty-five-year-old Simon Trinidad died on Jan. 27 after he fell into a metal hopper at Andrews Prestressed Concrete …
The Oklahoma Senate rejected a plan to cap plaintiff attorney fees, while voting to keep alive a Republican-sponsored bill to shake up the state’s civil justice system in an effort to curtail lawsuits. Senate President Pro Tem Glenn Coffee, R-Oklahoma …
When a fire destroyed the Manhattan office of Atlantis Health Plan, the company was so well prepared it lost just one day of work. But that didn’t make disaster recovery easy. Small business owners who contend with disasters find that …
Eight firefighters have been taken to a hospital as a precaution after being exposed to cyanide gas while battling a four-alarm blaze at a boat yard in Portsmouth. Fire Chief Jeffrey Lynch said a ninth firefighter was being treated for …
A Connecticut school board has approved what could amount to a $125,000 settlement with a teacher who was cleared of allegations he viewed child pornography on a school computer. Paul Cavagnero, chairman of the Torrington school board, says board members …
All policies of Florida property insurer Coral Insurance will be cancelled as of May 31, 2009 and any unearned premiums will be returned to policyholders, under a state plan approved by a Leon County judge overseeing the receivership of the …
An Olive Branch fast food restaurant will have to fork out $40,000 to three former employees and offer sexual harassment prevention training to its current and new employees. That’s according to a settlement agreement on file in a federal court …
The government is opening up its records of tens of thousands of collisions of birds with airplanes, such as the accident that led US Airways Flight 1549 to ditch into the Hudson River. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, in a bow …