Thirteen people who were stripped of their driver’s licenses and tried to ride away from a South Florida court didn’t get far. Florida Highway Patrol stopped them shortly after they left the parking lot of the court in Delray Beach …
People who lived through Hurricane Ivan can’t forget the haunting images left by one of the strongest storms ever recorded: condo towers collapsed in roiling surf, splintered homes or flat slabs, fragments of highways lost in a sea of sand. …
North Carolina regulators will require that all new homes be built with an electronic switch designed to prevent electrical fires. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported the Building Code Council had been moving toward dropping a requirement that arc …
Bill Hertoghe has returned to Haig & Lewin, Inc., of Sacramento, as Vice President. Hertoghe has assumed responsibilities for the Special Investigations Unit which includes identifying and investigating suspected fraudulent insurance claims presented to clients under contract with Haig & …
A Philadelphia man who had been arrested for drunken driving seven times in 13 years is charged with death by auto after a crash in New Jersey. Authorities say John lawless was drunk again. Police say the 37-year-old swerved across …
The South Carolina Supreme Court this week upheld a multimillion verdict against an insurer the justices said revoked a man’s health policy after he tested positive for HIV based solely on a nurse writing down the wrong year for the …
The Coast Guard this month will being doing voluntary commercial passenger vessel safety checks at tourist-popular Lake Texoma. The lake, on the Red River, is shared by Texas and Oklahoma. A statement from the Coast Guard says it is working …
A newspaper reports that Ohio policy allowed thousands of illegal immigrants to register cars and get license plates. The Columbus Dispatch reports that the outgoing director of the Ohio Department of Public Safety delayed a proposed crackdown for more than …
Former Chicago Bulls basketball player Horace Grant has won an arbitration case against a mutual fund he claimed misrepresented the risk levels of the bond funds it sold him. Morgan Keegan & Co. must pay Grant $1.46 million for losses …
A federal appeals court has denied a rehearing in the five-year battle over ownership of Tinker, a 65 million-year-old skeleton of a teenage Tyrannosaurus unearthed in South Dakota. Commissioners in Harding County, where the fossils were first found in 1998, …