The California Department of Insurance announced that Matthew A. Riddle Sr. of Stockton; his mother, Lydia Riddle of Stockton; and John D. Vier of Sacramento were arrested in connection with insurance fraud and vehicle arson. According to CDI, on Aug. …
An anonymous tip and a police officer’s observation of a driver swerving in his lane were not enough to reasonably suspect drunken driving, judges on the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled this week. The three-judge panel ordered a new …
States with higher gun ownership rates and weak gun laws have the highest rates of gun death according to analysis by the Violence Policy Center of just-revealed 2006 national data (the most recent available) from the federal Centers for Disease …
A Tulsa, Okla., man who pleaded guilty to staging a robbery and faking a workplace injury has been sentenced in Tulsa County District Court on one count of workers’ compensation fraud, Attorney General Drew Edmondson announced. Christopher Cox, 35, was …
Police in Fremont, Neb. say a woman arrested on suspicion of drunken driving hit fences, garages and a house as she left a $26,000 trail of destruction. Sgt. Ed Watts says the woman’s car struck a fence while she was …
Hurricane season is just weeks away, but many south Louisiana parishes cannot show their disaster plans cover evacuation of at-risk populations such as the disabled, the homeless and the elderly, according to the Disaster Accountability Project, a student-led watchdog group. …
An Ohio fire chief estimates $50 million in damage was done by a recent explosion and fire at an Ohio solvent recycling plant. West Carrollton Fire Chief Jack Keister says federal investigators are trying to pinpoint the cause of the …
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has said that its ratings and outlook on German global reinsurer Munich Reinsurance Co. (‘AA-‘/Stable/–) and core related entities) are unaffected by the Group’s first-quarter 2009 earnings announcement. “Munich Re’s net income for the first …
A structural engineer maintains he had limited involvement with the Dallas Cowboys’ training facility that collapsed during a thunderstorm on May 2 and left a team employee paralyzed. “I was there just a few months,” said Enrique Tabak in a …
A Connecticut judge has approved an agreement freezing $10 million in assets belonging to the owner of a chimpanzee that mauled a woman. The family of Charla Nash is suing the chimp’s owner, Sandra Herold, for $50 million. Nash lost …