The American Lung Association has given Oklahoma an “F” for the amount of money spent on programs intended to prevent tobacco use, despite being one of only five states that increased anti-tobacco funding last year. Thirty-nine other states and the …
A government witness said Jan. 13 that the five young woman who testified last year that evangelist Tony Alamo took them as a “wife” and sexually abused them as minors should receive $2.7 million each for physical and mental pain …
A committee has partially upheld the state’s decision that a former top aide to fallen Attorney General Marc Dann improperly classified workers at his private construction company when determining his workers’ compensation obligations. Anthony Gutierrez had appealed the decision by …
Road tar has defaced a historic fort near the Texas border with Mexico and a contractor is being asked to explain what happened. Artist Michael Tracy has led efforts to restore the Trevino Fort in San Ygnacio. Tracy says a …
Some first-time drunken drivers will have to install ignition interlock devices under legislation approved by both houses of the New Jersey Legislature. The Assembly and Senate both overwhelmingly passed the bill on Monday, sending it to Gov. Jon Corzine’s desk. …
Investigators say a fire at a Massachusetts home that took the life of a 73-year-old resident was caused by smoking around home oxygen equipment. State Fire Marshal Stephen Coan and Whitman, Mass. Fire Chief Timothy Grenno said in a joint …
An Iowa nursing home has agreed to pay $75,000 to settle allegations of patient neglect. Federal officials fined Friendship Manor of Grinnell more than $101,000 last fall after a resident lost a leg to gangrene and later died. Owner Tim …
Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell filed suit in Orleans Parish against multiple Knauf entities, other international and domestic manufacturers, distributors, importers of alleged toxic Chinese drywall. Several builders were also named in the lawsuit. Caldwell’s lawsuit alleges the State of …
Troops and planeloads of food and medicine trickled in to Haiti Thursday to aid a traumatized nation still rattled by aftershocks from the catastrophic earthquake that flattened homes and government buildings and buried countless people. The Haitian Red Cross said …
Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine said that insured losses in North Georgia from the recent snow and ice storm are estimated to be about $25 million. The estimate includes damage to cars as well as homes and businesses and that …