Mark Camacho, 41, of Cedar Hill, Texas, a former employee of Americo Life Insurance Co., was sentenced in federal court for stealing more than $900,000 from the carrier and its agents’ commission accounts. Chief U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater …
The Board of County Supervisors in Prince William County, Virginia is considering raising the cost of an ambulance trip. The board on Tuesday moved forward with a plan to have insurance companies pay between $400 and $700 plus $10 per …
The Ohio Supreme Court is being asked to weigh in on a lawsuit filed by the families of four college baseball players killed in 2007 when a charter bus plunged off a highway overpass in Atlanta. Attorneys for the families …
A federal lawsuit filed in the Texarkana Division of the Western District of Arkansas claims the Arkansas Department of Motor Vehicle database has been illegally used for marketing and it could affect anyone who has had an Arkansas driver’s license …
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited CITGO Refining and Chemicals LP in Corpus Christi, Texas, for workplace safety violations resulting from a catastrophic release of hydrocarbon and hydrofluoric acid from the facility’s alkylation …
About 1.5 million Graco strollers sold at Wal-Mart, Target and other major retailers are being recalled after some children’s fingertips were amputated by hinges on the products. The recall by Graco Children’s Products Inc. includes certain model numbers of its …
The Pittsburgh-based Giant Eagle supermarket chain has recalled frozen hash browns because bacteria was found in other products processed at the same independent plant that makes the hash browns. Giant Eagle officials aren’t saying where that plant is or what …
A jury in Michigan’s Thumb has awarded nearly $300,000 to a hunter whose face was smashed while trying to help a friend who had danced with another man’s wife. Carl Schnorr’s jaw was wired shut for four months after the …
LG&E, Kentucky Utilities and East Kentucky Power Cooperative say they are voluntarily replacing some programmable thermostats installed as part of a conservation program due to a potential safety concern. LG&E and Kentucky Utilities say about 12,500 customers have the thermostats …
A fine issued to Walt Disney World by a federal workplace safety agency for a serious violation that contributed to the death of a worker during a summer monorail accident has been reduced by 20 percent. Disney had been fined …