A federal jury has ordered Orkin Inc. to pay a Bettendorf couple nearly $129,000 in damages after their home was damaged by termites. The jury found Orkin had committed “negligent misrepresentation” in its work on the home owned by Lonnie …
Firefighters are trying to put out flames at a historic downtown movie theatre in a small southeastern Iowa town. Firefighters responded to a report of smoking coming from the second floor of the State Theatre in downtown Washington at 9:20 …
The 952-foot Carnival Splendor, which was towed to San Diego last week after an engine fire crippled the cruise ship and left its 4,500 passengers and crew marooned at sea, will be out of service until mid-January. The ship was …
A state police fire marshal has been called to investigate a northwestern Pennsylvania dairy barn fire that killed 22 cows. State police say the fire was reported about 2:45 a.m. Wednesday in Atlantic, Crawford County, about 85 miles north of …
Powerful storms that swept through the Mid-Atlantic region earlier this week, damaged at least 100 homes and left thousands without power. As of yesterday, Baltimore Gas & Electric reported about 12,550 customers were without power, mostly in Baltimore city, and …
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Precision Production Inc., a manufacturer of fabricated components in Cleveland, Ohio, with 15 alleged safety violations. The company faces penalties totaling $149,250. As a result of a May …
Massey Energy Co. has been cited for impeding the government’s investigation of the deadliest U.S. coal mine explosion since 1970, the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration said. A Massey employee refused to help government investigators supply water to test …
Celebrity wrestler Hulk Hogan’s attorneys have added his ex-wife as a defendant to a lawsuit against his insurance broker for allegedly failing to adequately protect his fortune. The lawsuit claims Wells Fargo Insurance Services should have protected Hogan with an …
A lawyer for the plaintiffs says attempts to settle a long-running water pollution lawsuit against Massey Energy Co. have failed. Two judges on West Virginia’s mass litigation panel have been trying to mediate a settlement with Massey and its army …
Exxon Mobil Corp will pay $25 million as part of a settlement to clean up a decades-old oil spill in New York City, the state’s attorney general said. The settlement, filed in U.S. district court in Brooklyn, requires Exxon to …