St. Louis, Mo., is perking up with jokes about the $200,000 cup of coffee. But officials at a college and its insurance company aren’t laughing. St. Louis Community College at Forest Park must foot the bill after a coffee maker …
The east side of El Paso, Texas, was pounded by a violent hailstorm Sept 16, racking up insured losses of more than $150 million, the Insurance Council of Texas reported. The fast-moving storm struck in the late afternoon producing baseball …
A former administrator at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that he was fired because of his race. Ronald Banks, who is black, was assistant to the dean of engineering from 1994 to 2007. His …
A construction company has agreed to pay $28,000 for violating state labor laws in the deaths of two workers who drowned when a flash flood swept a storm sewer in St. Paul, Minnesota. Lametti & Sons Inc., of Hugo, reached …
New York fire officials say a man has been arrested on arson charges in connection with a Bronx fire that caused $2 million in damage. The blaze started March 22 at 122 Westchester Square in a business undergoing renovations called …
Another fire is raging in Southern California, stoked by the notoriously hot and dry Santa Ana winds, as the state moves into its prime fire season. The fire is in the north of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, and north …
Settlements have been reached in three federal lawsuits filed against International Paper Co. resulting from a 2008 explosion at its mill in Warren County. Details of the settlements were sealed. U.S. District Court documents show a federal magistrate signed off …
Six Flags amusement park looks more like a water park. The west Georgia theme park iwas under several feet of water this week, and aerial shots showed towering roller coasters peeking out of murky brown floodwaters. Park spokesman Kendell Kelton …
As floodwaters around Atlanta began to recede, residents were packing moving vans with furniture and commiserating about water-logged apartments. “I’m toast,” Penny Freeman, who moved into a first-floor apartment five days ago, said. “I don’t have a place to stay. …
Alabama businessman Tommy Lunceford Jr., a former Auburn football player, entered a “best interests” guilty plea to arson involving a fire that destroyed his Gulf Shores building, forcing a couple living there to flee. The plea allows the 63-year-old Lunceford …