High winds and heavy rain cut power to thousands in Ohio, destroyed a historic, vacant town hall, damaged other buildings and injured a firefighter in the state’s far northwest corner. “The town hall is gone,” Edgerton Mayor Lance Bowsher said. …
Louisiana has hired an independent administrator to perform a comprehensive review of BP’s oil spill claims process. As the third party administrator, Cannon Cochran Management Services Inc., will also look at the effect of social, human, and workforce development services …
Police in Springfield, Massachusetts have arrested a man in connection with a rash of Honda car thefts, where in most cases the only thing missing when the vehicles were recovered were the factory-installed stereos. Ricardo Morales was arrested Tuesday and …
Authorities say one man is dead after a shed in West Springfield, Massachusetts exploded. The back yard shed exploded and was engulfed in flames at about 10 p.m. on Wednesday. The office of the medical examiner arrived and took away …
Before she was killed cycling in Tennessee last month, Sharon Bayler lobbied Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle to adopt a “Complete Streets” policy. Now some of Bayler’s friends are carrying on her campaign to make local roads safer for bicyclists, pedestrians …
U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said her department needs to scrap and replace its “badly broken” process for identifying the nation’s most dangerous mines. An alert from the Labor Department inspector general’s office questions why the U.S. Mine Safety and …
A South Florida sheriff’s deputy allegedly filed a fake accident report to recoup the costs of two concert tickets. The Broward Sheriff’s Office suspended 43-year-old Shawn Barber without pay in December after he was accused of stealing a tractor from …
BP Plc faces at least 243 U.S. lawsuits so far arising from its role in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, in what is considered by some the biggest environmental disaster in U.S. history. The vast majority of the lawsuits …
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has revised its outlook on Allied World Assurance Co. Holdings Ltd. (AWH) and its operating subsidiaries to positive from stable. S&P also affirmed all of its ratings on AWH, including the ‘BBB’ counterparty credit rating, …
Yellowstone County commissioners say the tornado-damaged Rimrock Auto Arena in Billings, Mont., appears to be structurally sound. Commissioners Jim Reno and John Ostlund said that engineers hired by the county’s insurance company determined the 12,000 seat arena needs major repairs, …