A new lawsuit alleges that VictoryLand owner Milton McGregor and companies that supply his electronic bingo machines have rigged the machines to cheat customers. The suit claims the machines have been set up to return billions of dollars to McGregor …
Volkert & Associates Inc. has agreed to give the Mobile County Public School System $9 million to settle a 6-year-old lawsuit involving some schools where Volkert oversaw construction. School officials sued Volkert, which oversaw $250 million worth of construction at …
Surgeons almost had to amputate the arm of an upstate New York waste disposal worker to free him from the grip of a garbage truck compactor. The 49-year-old Geneva man was trapped for three hours Friday when his arm became …
Gov. Martin O’Malley said Thursday he would support requiring first-time drunk drivers to install ignition locking systems in their vehicles, so they couldn’t drive them if they’ve had too much to drink. O’Malley announced his support for the measure while …
Federal regulators have hit the sister carrier of American Airlines with another penalty topping $2 million for safety violations. The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday that American Eagle operated at least 1,178 flights with four jets that had main landing …
A judge in a small claims court case is ordering a Vermont State Police trooper to pay a Lowell man $1,200. The judge found that Trooper David Robillard claimed the blood alcohol content of William Henn of Lowell was above …
Neither Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services nor A.M. Best are currently expecting to change their ratings on Zenith National Insurance Corp or on Toronto-based Fairfax Financial Holdings, following the announcement on Thursday, Feb. 15, that it will buy all the …
An overnight fire ravaged a Long Island elementary school last week. West Babylon Fire Chief Jim Campbell said Friday it appeared the fire started in the boiler room at South Bay Elementary School. He said two of the school’s three …
The federal government is taking control of a hurricane barrier that protects Providence from flooding. City officials formally handled the title to the barrier Friday to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Congress now requires the Army corps to operate …
A U.S. judge has picked 12 responders to the Sept. 11 attacks whose cases will be the first to go to trial over illnesses caused by ash and dust from the destroyed World Trade Center. More than 9,000 people who …