Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas says the state’s business owners are going to be paying less for workers’ compensation insurance. The new rates that will take effect April 1 will mark the fourth consecutive year in which rates have decreased. The …
A listing tugboat has leaked an estimated 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel in an inlet of the eastern branch of the Elizabeth River in Norfolk. Battalion Chief Harry Worley of Norfolk Fire-Rescue said Monday the fuel leak has been contained …
Fire officials in Montgomery County, Maryland say a small plane went off the runway into woods at the county Airpark. Fire Department spokesman Capt. Oscar Garcia says it happened Monday afternoon at the airpark in Gaithersburg. He says firefighters arrived …
An explosion and a fast-moving fire has destroyed a building at an eastern Maine boatyard. Fire officials say there wasn’t enough left of the building at RP Boat Shop in Steuben to determine the cause. Owner Richard Pinkham told the …
University of Connecticut records show the school violated federal asbestos-handling rules when workers discarded construction materials during renovations in President Michael Hogan’s office. The Hartford Courant reported in Tuesday’s editions that documents show UConn officials acknowledged the workers violated the …
With the economy’s ill health continuing and their own personal health improving, America’s senior citizens are not retiring like they used to. In fact, more of them are working every day. Since the late 1980s, the labor force has seen …
An appeals court has upheld a decision on behalf of the family of a cancer patient who was given a wrong prescription at a Walgreens pharmacy, had a stroke and died several years later. Walgreens had appealed the jury’s decision. …
Foodborne illnesses cost the United States $152 billion in health-related expenses each year, according to a study released by consumer and public health groups on Wednesday. Food safety advocates are hoping that the study will boost efforts in Congress to …
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will pay more than $11.7 million to settle a gender discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency said. The lawsuit accused the world’s largest retailer of regularly hiring male workers for warehouse …
Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide has estimated that insured losses in France, Belgium, Germany, and Netherlands from winter storm Xynthia will be between €1.5 billion and €3 billion [$2 to $4.1 billion]. The storm struck the Atlantic coast of …