A 55-year-old New Hampshire woman is being held for lack of bail after being stopped three times in a week and charged with drunken driving. Prosecutors say Patricia Mondro, of Concord is a hazard to herself and the public. The …
The Pennsylvania State Police has a new computer system for issuing traffic tickets that officials say improves safety and uses troopers’ time more efficiently. The department says issuing tickets takes about half the time it used to, so troopers spend …
A federal jury has awarded a former Nashville schools employee about $1.5 million in a wrongful termination trial that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The jury agreed with former Metro Schools Payroll Coordinator Vicky Crawford who …
Federal labor officials are recommending that three Mueller Industries subsidiaries in Mississippi pay $638,000 in fines for allegedly exposing employees to unsafe working conditions. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited the companies in Fulton for …
Agricultural claims cost the California workers’ compensation system $1.46 billion in loss payments, according to a recent “Industry Scorecard. According to the Scorecard, which provides data on accident year (AY) 2000 to 2008 claims experience among agriculture workers in California, …
The Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled that Mary Reed Evans is entitled to present evidence in an effort to disprove prosecutors’ contention that her blood alcohol level was over the legal limit at the time she was driving an automobile. …
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee says the theft of computer hard drives containing personal information on hundreds of thousands of members has already cost the insurer more than $7 million. The insurer has already contacted 220,000 members in Tennessee and elsewhere …
A judge has approved the final details of a bankruptcy plan revision for the Fairbanks (Alaska) Catholic Diocese that will help compensate sexual abuse victims. U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Donald McDonald approved the reorganization plan at a hearing in Anchorage. …
State regulators say there were 34 accidental workplace deaths in North Carolina last year. The numbers released by the North Carolina Department of Labor show that accidental workplace fatalities dropped from 57 in 2008. Construction fatalities remained the highest, with …
A city official says Cleveland, Ohio, will move quickly to demolish residences that have been made unsafe by an explosion that completely destroyed a vacant house. Two nearby buildings caught fire as a result of the blast. City Councilman Matt …