The California Department of Insurance has announced that Joseph Baiden, 56, of Diamond Bar, surrendered yesterday morning to the Los Angeles Superior Court pursuant to an arrest warrant issued for eight counts of workers’ compensation insurance premium fraud against State …
A construction worker fell five stories to his death when part of a scaffold collapsed in Brooklyn, police said. The worker had been resurfacing bricks on an apartment building’s facade in the Park Slope section when the accident occurred at …
Officials with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration are investigating an apparent work-related accident in which a worker was killed at Trinity Yachts Inc. in Gulfport. Harrison County Coroner Gary Hargrove says 46-year-old Luong Huynh of Biloxi was struck and …
A crack of lightning sparked a raging fire that left a 160-year-old barn in Pennsylvania a smoldering ruin. Farmer Jacob Zook says he heard “one loud crack” during a thunderstorm that roared across the region Tuesday night. He says 10 …
A judge in New York City has ruled that a discrimination lawsuit brought against Dow Jones & Co. by a former assistant managing editor at The Wall Street Journal can go to trial. Federal Judge Deborah Batts ruled Monday that …
Powerful Hurricane Bill, a dangerous Category 4 storm with 135 mph winds, raged across the open Atlantic Wednesday, days from land but on a path that could menace Canada’s eastern provinces next week. Sweeping past the Caribbean islands and posing …
A northeastern Pennsylvania man who prosecutors say was about to lose his home to foreclosure is accused of burning it down for insurance money. Manfred John Lennartz insisted as he was led from the Lackawanna County Courthouse on Tuesday that …
Sean Casey admits having several drinks the night of a fatal accident in 2001. Somewhere around his last rum and Coke, while watching the sun rise at a Miami beach bar, he says he blacked out. Everything after that is …
Hurricane Bill has weakened somewhat from a category 4 storm to category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson scale. It nonetheless remains a dangerous storm with maximum sustained winds of around 125 mph, 205 km/hr, with higher gusts. The National Hurricane Center …
A major inquiry into Australia’s wildfire disaster earlier this year has found that warning systems are dangerously flawed, and residents in vulnerable areas need better, faster information to escape quick-moving infernos. In its interim report, the government-appointed commission into the …