Officials say a worker at a paper recycling facility in Camden was crushed to death in a paper compactor. Camden police say 42-year-old Mike Singleton was extinguishing a fire in the machine Monday afternoon when the machine unexpectedly turned on. …
If the suicide bombers who targeted two luxury hotels in Jakarta this year hoped their attacks would strike a significant long-term blow against Indonesia’s economy, the reaction of financial markets suggests they were wrong. Economic warfare is at the heart …
From the hallowed halls of Congress to town hall meetings to network TV to the big screen, lying is a hot topic these days. The president is charged with telling lies. A popular TV show, “Lie to Me,” conducts a …
A Huntington, West Virginia woman has been sentenced to three years and a month in federal prison for embezzling $1.1 million from her company’s clients. Andrea Mills formerly owned Allied Benefit Administrators Inc., a third-party administrator of employee health-benefit claims. …
Two eastern Kentucky fire departments will be featured in a national documentary focusing on rural preparedness and first responders. The Rural Domestic Preparedness Consortium, based at Eastern Kentucky University’s Justice and Safety Center in Richmond, said in a statement that …
Former Tennessee Titans wide receiver David Givens claims the team failed to tell him about a defect in his knee that led to an injury and eventually ended his career. Givens claims in a $25 million lawsuit filed this week …
The former owner of a Mingo County, West Virginia, trucking company has received a suspended sentence and probation for workers’ compensation fraud. Forty-year-old Leonard H. Cline Jr. had pleaded guilty in June to five counts of workers’ compensation fraud. Insurance …
A Long Island hospital has been slapped with 14 violations from New York’s health department. Officials say the violations stemmed from a neurosurgeon’s refusal to step in and perform brain surgery for a colleague who had gone out of town. …
Plans are moving ahead in Louisiana to create a $5 million program to help homeowners rehabilitate and repair property with Chinese drywall problems. State lawmakers required the Louisiana Recovery Authority to devise the program, and the recovery authority’s board gave …
A former football coach has been sentenced to a year in jail for making racially charged threats at an insurance company. Authorities say 38-year-old Jose Jefferson sent the letters in February to Ameritas Life Insurance of Lincoln, where he worked. …