What began as a comprehensive school bus safety bill is still alive at the Capitol, but in a weakened form. The House Judiciary A Committee approved the bill on Monday, a day before a legislative deadline for committees to act …
According to catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide, a more complete picture of damages is beginning to emerge in the hardest-hit regions of Bio Bio and Maule, four days after the devastating Mw8.8 earthquake struck off of Chile’s central coast. …
A.M. Best Co. has commented that the ratings of American International Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries are “unchanged following the announcement that AIG will sell the AIA Group, Limited to Prudential plc in a deal valued at approximately $35.5 billion. …
Authorities say thieves are increasingly targeting tractor-trailers in Pennsylvania to steal their loads of electronics, food or drink, later abandoning the trailers at the side of the road. Sometimes the culprits steal trucks left idling at rest stops, or they …
A snow plow might have jarred loose the cover of a sewage pit where a teenager doughnut shop worker fell and died while taking out the trash, investigators said Monday. Amiri Zeqiri, 17, slipped into an open cesspool behind a …
Police say a 35-year-old man moving into a Bronx apartment building died after he fell down an elevator shaft. Police say Joseph Ryan and his wife were carrying a mattress when he stepped backward into an empty freight elevator shaft. …
A former dancer with Rhode Island’s Festival Ballet Providence claims in a lawsuit that he was discriminated against because of his gender when he was fired last year. Eivar Martinez, who danced with Festival Ballet for about seven years, said …
Louisiana State Police have arrested five people on charges ranging from felony theft to insurance fraud. In September 2009, troopers obtained information from the Department of Insurance about a possible staged crash ring in St. Landry Parish. Troopers said they …
Toward the end of 2009, it appeared that a number of issues with the possibility of creating significant political and social changes were on the verge of becoming law before stalling or imploding. One such issue with serious implications for …
California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. has filed a lawsuit against Livermore-based Country Builders Inc. after he said the company “cheated workers out of wages,” falsified the company’s payroll records to hide underpayments, deliberately misclassified workers to reduce the …