Mueller Industries has appealed a $683,000 fine levied by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration for alleged safety violations. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports John Hansen, Mueller’s vice president of manufacturing, confirmed the appeal was filed but declined to …
A former insurance worker has pleaded guilty in a Columbus court to charges she helped defraud Aflac of nearly $300,000 in claims. U.S. District Court Judge Clay Land sentenced Danyele Grothen to 27 months in prison. She also will pay …
Food and Drug Administration staff said they face difficulties in reviewing certain medical devices, hurdles that may call for additional regulations and authorities, even as the industry defended the current approval process. At a public meeting Thursday, held to discuss …
A Ritzville, Wash., man has pled guilty to possession of stolen property in connection with illegally collecting workers’ compensation benefits while collecting wages from a nursing home managed by his wife, the state Department of Labor and Industries has reported. …
Austin, Texas, Police Chief Art Acevedo stopped short of calling the crashing of a small plane into a commercial office building in northwest Austin on Feb. 18 a terrorist act, but U.S. Representative Mike McCaul said he wasn’t so sure …
The widow and children of a Utah State University instructor have sued a tire maker over a 2005 traffic accident that killed him and eight of his students. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court, alleges a tire on a …
Mary Donna Doyle of Boulevard, Calif., has plead guilty to one felony count of grand theft for stealing insurance premiums and was sentenced in San Diego Superior Court Feb. 10 to 180 days in San Diego County Jail, the California …
A small plane crashed into a commercial office building in northwest Austin, Texas, just before 10 a.m. on Feb. 18, creating a huge fireball and causing extensive damage to the structure. According to various media reports nearly all the windows …
Police in Tulsa, Okla., say they are again responding to noninjury auto accidents. Police had stopped responding to those accidents and some property crime calls earlier this month after 124 officers were laid off on Jan. 29. Almost two weeks …
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has ordered the Illinois Central Railroad Co. and the Chicago, Central & Pacific Railroad, both headquartered in Homewood, Ill., to pay a former railroad employee more than $80,000 in …