Government minimum flood elevation requirements for properties vulnerable to storm surge throughout the Gulf Coast region are woefully inadequate, according to a new study of property damage caused by Hurricane Ike, which struck the Bolivar Peninsula near Galveston, Texas, one …
Jurors in Cleveland, Ohio, say a pastor intentionally damaged the reputations of three Catholic school teachers after they were fired in 2006. The teachers had accused the Rev. Thomas Weber, pastor of St. Bernadette parish in Westlake, of defamation, saying …
The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld a $12,500 award for the family of a woman believed to have suffered excruciating pain for days as she lay dying in an Omaha hospice. Frances Tolliver’s daughters had been awarded the money in …
Jurors have awarded $750,000 to a Gary, Ind., woman who sued the city after she was hurt when a police cruiser hit her car. Attorneys for Hazel Osborne say that she had the green light when she was struck by …
Years after hurricanes Katrina and Rita left thousands of families living in government-issued trailers, one of the first trials is set to begin over whether dangerous fumes from the temporary homes sickened storm victims. The lawsuits accuse trailer makers of …
The Ohio Department of Insurance and Nationwide Insurance have issued a warning regarding an international mail fraud scheme that uses the Nationwide name. Consumers in as many as 10 states have reportedly received counterfeit checks that appeared to originate from …
Los Angeles homicide detectives investigating the deadly arson fire burning in the Angeles National Forest want to talk to anyone who made the initial efforts to report the blaze, authorities said Friday. The investigators hope to hear from anyone who …
A 79-year-old Massachusetts man has pleaded not guilty to negligent motor vehicle homicide in the death of a Weymouth police officer who was killed while he was directing traffic. Ronald Gale, of Weymouth, is charged with going through a stop …
A federal jury has ruled that a fishing vessel was not unseaworthy when it sank 60 miles off the Maine coast four years ago, resulting in the death of a fisherman. According to the Bangor Daily News, the U.S. District …
As predicted, El Nino is suppressing tropical storm development in the Caribbean and Atlantic. In August, government forecasters said they expected El Nino’s wind shear to quell tropical storm activity. That would mean fewer named storms in the season that …