Credit rating agencies may find it harder to argue that their opinions deserve free speech protection after a judge rejected efforts by Moody’s Investors Service and Standard & Poor’s to dismiss a fraud lawsuit. In a case alleging that inflated …
Authorities have lifted mandatory evacuation orders for nearly 3,000 homes in San Bernardino County as they get a handle on two wildfires. A state fire spokesman said Wednesday residents of unincorporated Oak Glen and the Yucaipa (yoo-KYE’-puh) area were being …
Firefighters made more progress Wednesday morning against a giant wildfire that has ravaged a national forest north of Los Angeles, with another day of cooperative weather providing a big assist to beleaguered fire crews. The blaze in the Angeles National …
California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund announced Tuesday that it will extend credit to policyholders who have suffered a financial loss or business disruption caused by several wildfires that are ravaging parts of Northern and Southern California. State Fund has more …
Kentucky State Fair Board President Harold Workman is estimating the damage from an early-morning fire at the fairgrounds horse barns to be more than $1 million. Workman says a trucker driving by on Interstate 65 spotted the fire, and a …
A federal appeals court hasreinstated a criminal case against a Las Vegas attorney and medical consultant accused of participating in a scheme to inflate medical costs, protect doctors from malpractice lawsuits and share kickbacks from legal settlements. Visiting Senior U.S. …
Toy-makers, clothing manufacturers and other companies selling products for young children are submitting samples to independent laboratories for safety tests. But the nation’s largest toy maker, Mattel, isn’t being required to do the same. The Consumer Product Safety Commission recently, …
The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says Maryland grocery chain Mars Super Markets will pay $275,000 to settle a gender discrimination lawsuit. The settlement was announced Tuesday. Part-time deli clerk Gail Brown alleged that Mars wouldn’t hire her as an …
Federal authorities are investigating the death of a Stoughton man who fell off a forklift and struck his head on the concrete floor in the Taunton warehouse where he worked. Authorities say 51-year-old Alan Forsyth was taken to Morton Hospital …
A small plane with engine trouble made an emergency landing on a Massachusetts highway late Tuesday morning, causing a traffic jam but no injuries. The two men aboard had been practicing stalls _ slowing down the airspeed to the point …