Minnesota’s failed effort to develop an electronic system for public health insurance applications has landed in court after six years and more than $30 million spent. The state is defending a lawsuit from the contractor it fired last year. ACS …
Federal aviation officials say they will change airspace rules over the Hudson River at New York City after
Federal regulators have cited a Delaware school bus contractor for safety compliance violations. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has issued a civil penalty notice against Lehane’s Bus Service of New Castle, with a fine of more than $83,000. Officials …
The New York City Police Department is offering a motorcycle safety course on department time to service members to try to stem the rising number of off-duty officers injured or killed in accidents. Police say that since 2005, six off-duty …
The Virginia State Police are urging safety this Labor Day weekend. The state has experienced a significant decline in traffic fatalities over the holiday weekend. Last year, seven people died in traffic crashes. It was Virginia’s lowest fatality count since …
A former insurance agent from eastern Kentucky has been sentenced to five years in prison in what federal prosecutors called a Ponzi scheme. Robert W. Rister of South Shore was also ordered to pay restitution of nearly $400,000. South Shore …
A defense contractor said it will start building portable shelters for natural disasters and war zones that quickly unfold like a Transformer toy. The shelters come with an onboard diesel generator to power heating, ventilation and air conditioning and unfold …
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has lowered its long-term counterparty credit ratings on The Netherlands-based ING Groep N.V. and ING Verzekeringen N.V. to ‘A’ from ‘A+’ and its long- and short-term counterparty credit ratings on ING Bank N.V. to ‘A+/A-1’ …
A jury has sided with a Tampa Bay doctor in a libel suit against Times Publishing Co., the parent company of the St. Petersburg Times. The decision calls for Dr. Harold L. Kennedy, former chief of medicine at Bay Pines …
Florida’s public employee pension and hurricane catastrophe funds are benefiting from an upswing in the financial markets, state investment managers said earlier this week. The State Board of Administration received that bit of good news at the first of the …