An initiative of Gov. Steve Beshear’s is aimed at reducing the number of deaths and serious injuries due to highway accidents in Kentucky. Beshear said that the effort, called Toward Zero Deaths, is part of a plan to increase highway …
Construction is underway for a new $1.6 million fire training building at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center in Forsyth. Butch Beach, the training center’s deputy director of training, says firefighters use so-called “burn buildings” to practice putting out fires …
A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘B++’ (Good) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of “bbb+” of Novae Insurance Company Limited (NICL), the ICR of “bbb” of Novae Group plc (Novae) (the ultimate holding company of the …
The U.S. Small Business Administration has declared five counties in Southern California disaster areas. The designation will allow property owners in the counties of Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Kern, Ventura, and Orange whose homes were damaged by February’s mud flows …
A small plane that slammed into a house and hangar in a St. Louis, Mo.-area subdivision built for aviation enthusiasts never sent out a distress signal before crashing, authorities said Feb. 22. Two people believed to be on board were …
Since the passage of Oklahoma’s graduated driver’s license law in 1999, the number of fatality crashes involving 16- and 17-year-old drivers has dropped from 75 in 2000 to a low of 39 in 2008. The numbers include wrecks that killed …
Investigators say DNA evidence collected at the site of one of several Texas churches destroyed by arson links one of two suspects to the blaze, and they haven’t ruled out more charges. Jason Robert Bourque, 19, and Daniel George McAllister, …
Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has announced that nearly $59 million, or 60 percent of the available tax rebates available to property insurance consumers in his state went unclaimed last year. Property owners are entitled to a state tax rebate, …
New Hampshire fire officials say a fire that destroyed an 18th Century colonial home in Rochester was arson. Firefighter say the 21/2-story home was fully engulfed in flames when crews arrived just before noon on Sunday. There were no injuries. …
A Connecticut teenage girl who says she was raped in the back of a taxi in Naugatuck in 2007 has been awarded $1 million in a lawsuit against the alleged attacker and the cab company. A Waterbury Superior Court jury …