BP Plc has turned down Alabama’s claim for $148 million in lost government revenue due to the worst oil spill in U.S. history, the state’s attorney general, Troy King, said Friday. BP denied the claim because it said there was …
The Army Corps of Engineers said that a diversion plan for the Red River in the Fargo-Moorhead area will be delayed because it needs to study the project more. The agency said the move is necessary because the effects downstream …
The judge overseeing hundreds of lawsuits spurred by BP Plc’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill brought his much-noted calm, easy manner to the first major hearing in what could be one of the most complex and costly court fights in …
An attorney says two women charged in the alleged embezzlement of nearly $6 million from West Des Moines, Iowa, insurer Aviva USA will plead guilty. The Des Moines Register says William Kutmus, the attorney for Phyllis Stevens, confirmed that Stevens …
Hurricane Karl bore down on Mexico’s central Gulf Coast on Friday, threatening to cause flash floods and mudslides, but it appeared to have spared Mexican offshore oil operations from major damage. Karl, which was projected to produce a storm surge …
Thirteen families in the heart of the gas-rich Marcellus Shale say their water wells have been contaminated by poisonous fluids blasted deep underground by a drilling company using a technique at the center of a fierce nationwide debate. A faulty …
A man who claims he was beaten and threatened by police at gunpoint after urinating in public near the granddaughter of one of the officers has settled his federal civil rights suit against the police and the western Pennsylvania town …
The family of a former Massachusetts student who received electric shocks at a special needs school has agreed to receive $65,000 to settle a lawsuit claiming the treatment was inhumane and violated the student’s civil rights. The privately operated Judge …
A historic mansion that served as a boarding school for girls in the mid-19th century has been badly damaged by fire in western Pennsylvania. The former Edgeworth Female Seminary building caught fire Wednesday afternoon and flames spread quickly throughout the …
They are two of Central Florida’s biggest and best-known employers — and both face the prospect of potentially ugly lawsuits stemming from a worker’s death on the job. And yet Walt Disney World, which is being sued by the mother …