A suburban Philadelphia man has admitted to setting a series of fires including one that destroyed 15 homes in an arson-plagued Pennsylvania city. Twenty-one-year-old Roger Leon Barlow Jr. pleaded guilty to eight counts of arson and one count of criminal …
A lawsuit over the death of a 15-year-old football player in Louisville, Kentucky has been settled for $1.75 million. Insurers for the Jefferson County Public Schools and its employees agreed to pay the sum to the parents of Max Gilpin, …
Hurricane Igor battered Bermuda with ferocious winds, waves and rain Sunday, felling trees and power lines in the Atlantic island chain in one of the worst storms to hit the British overseas territory. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the …
A northeastern Pennsylvania jury has decided against awarding damages to four people who claim they were sickened by a gasoline spill that contaminated hundreds of homes almost two decades ago. The Luzerne County jury decided that the two couples waited …
All over the city, witnesses compared stories of the destruction they saw _ roofs peeled away, street signs uprooted, storefront windows blown out, thick tree trunks snapped in half, a parked van lifted a foot into the air. So it …
A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A’ (Excellent) and the issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “a” of the U.S. operating companies comprising OneBeacon Insurance Group, and the FSR of ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and ICRs of “a-” …
A Los Angeles company says it is voluntarily recalling ginger candy it imported from China because of an elevated level of lead. Anhing Corp. announced it is recalling DaiJyoBu Ginger Candy after it was informed by the California Department of …
Two former and one current Los Angeles Airport police officers have filed a lawsuit accusing their bosses of discriminating against white officers and giving preferential treatment to black officers. The suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, claims that black …
A government contractor isn’t immune from claims that it performed shoddy work that resulted in the failure of a New Orleans levee system during Hurricane Katrina, a federal appeals court has ruled. This week’s ruling by the 5th U.S. Circuit …
Fire officials say a woman and her 2-year-old son were killed and three others including a firefighter injured by an arson at an Indianapolis, Ind., apartment complex. Fire Capt. Rita Burris said the woman took refuge with her son in …