A judge will consider whether to affirm a nearly $1 million jury award to a 66-year-old researcher at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. Robert Klebe alleged age discrimination and retaliation. A jury in Austin this …
The family of a 7-year-old Rhode Island girl killed in a flash flood at a New Hampshire campground has sued its owners. Kaitlyn Ferra was vacationing with her parents, Brandon and Donna Ferra, and her brother at Ames Brook Campground …
A couple from Pinto has been charged with deliberately setting a house fire in Maryland that displaced a family of three. Fifty-year-old Katherine Harsh and 51-year-old Jeffrey Adkerman were charged Monday in Allegany County with first-degree arson for the April …
Flooding across north Georgia over the past few days has caused an estimated $250 million in losses, as much as 80 percent of that likely uninsured, according to state Insurance Commissioner John W. Oxendine. Oxendine said that many of the …
Craig Fugate brought three lessons with him when he took over the Federal Emergency Management Agency: Always be ready for disasters, make sure people take responsibility for themselves and get the message out creatively. He also is stressing FEMA isn’t …
Days of torrential rain apparently claimed one life in Alabama and forced about three dozen residents to flee their homes or be rescued from vehicles as gullies overflowed with muddy red water and yards turned into lakes. Etowah County Sheriff …
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has revised its outlook on Willis Group Holdings Ltd. to stable from negative, and has affirmed our ‘BBB-‘ counterparty credit and senior unsecured debt ratings on Willis. S&P also assigned its ‘BBB-‘ senior unsecured debt …
A huge outback dust storm swept eastern Australia and blanketed Sydney on Wednesday, disrupting transport, forcing people indoors and stripping thousands of tons of valuable farmland topsoil. The dust blacked out the outback town of Broken Hill on Tuesday, forcing …
Hurricane Hugo was the most costly hurricane ever to hit the United States when it made landfall in South Carolina in 1989, causing $4.2 billion in insured damage. Since then, the total insured property along South Carolina’s coast has grown …
The parents of a teenager who died in a June 2008 accident in Pettis County are suing the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission. Melissa Lohrmeyer and Sean Godfrey allege the negligence of the commission resulted in the death of their …