Authorities are offering a $5,000 reward for information on a pair of fires ruled suspicious in Chillicothe in southern Ohio. A camper was found burning on April 18 and crews responded the following day to a vacant home that was …
The Oklahoma Employment Security Commission says the Social Security numbers of more than 5,500 people is on a flashdrive that was lost by an employee. Commission spokesman John Carpenter says the employee put the information on a flashdrive after his …
Joseph A. Torrez of Sacramento, Calif., has been arrested at his place of employment, Folsom State Prison, and booked into the Sacramento County Jail on insurance fraud charges, the California Department of Insurance reported. If convicted, Torrez could face up …
A former New York state tax department worker is accused of stealing the identities of taxpayers and running up more than $200,000 in fraudulent charges on their accounts. Prosecutors say the confidential information gathered by Walter Healey included credit card …
A published report says at least a dozen victims and families of those killed in a 2003 Rhode Island nightclub fire have filed for bankruptcy protection while awaiting their shares of a $176 million settlement. The Providence Journal reports its …
Mississippi has hired a wind engineering firm to assess the various steps that property owners might take to reduce damage from hurricanes. Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney and wind engineering firm AIR Worldwide have agreed to terms on a contract …
Connecticut police booked a 29-year-old woman for drunken driving, and then charged her with the same crime less than three hours later when they spotted her behind the wheel again. Farmington police say they arrested Elsa Veisor of South Windsor …
Police say the driver of a tanker truck that spilled 10,000 gallons of home heating oil when it overturned in Revere, Massachusetts was speeding. State police say 62-year-old Allyn Thompson of Lunenburg was cited for speeding and marked lanes violations …
As a senator, Barack Obama led the charge last year to pass a bill allowing black farmers to seek new discrimination claims against the Agriculture Department. Now that he is president, his administration so far is acting like it wants …
More than 100,000 U.S. doctors have traded in their prescription pads and begun to prescribe drugs electronically as national incentives for e-prescribing start to make an impact, according to a report released Wednesday. An estimated 17 percent of office-based prescribers …