Two men already sentenced to life in prison for torching a series of East Texas churches face new arson charges. A Henderson County grand jury on Jan. 11 indicted 21-year-old Jason Robert Bourque on three arson counts, and 23-year-old Daniel …
Buckeye Insurance Group, of Piqua, Ohio, has formed Marias Technology, an information technology company. The company’s announcement said Marias Technology provides a wide range of IT services in areas such as system and Web hosting, information technology consulting, and business …
New York police say an upstate man staging the theft of his car and filing a claim with his insurer for $22,000. Authorities arrested Matthew L. Carpenter, of Clifton Park, after an investigation by the police department and the Insurance …
The Idaho Fraud Awareness Coalition is offering three scholarships to high school seniors graduating in 2011 through an essay contest sponsored by State Farm Insurance. The scholarship program raises awareness amongst young adults concerning the negative impact to our communities …
The insurance industry will speak out against what it is calling a hidden “crash tax” in New York City during a hearing this morning with fire department officials. The proposal would allow the city to charge between $365 and $490 …
River forecasters for the National Weather Service underestimated the flood level that a major river would reach during Nashville’s fatal May floods because they relied on inaccurate data from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the service concluded in a …
Australia’s third-largest city started cleaning up stinking mud and debris on Friday after some of the country’s worst floods on record, but in a sign of the task ahead, it could take six months to pump flood waters out of …
Rescue workers in Brazil braced for more rain Friday as they struggled to reach areas cut off by massive floods and landslides that look certain to have killed more than 500 people. In one of the country’s worst natural disasters, …
Automakers must develop new approaches to reduce the number of people ejected in U.S. rollover crashes, which are blamed for 10,000 deaths annually over the past decade. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) expects manufactures to modify existing side …
The American landscape is littered with partially built, financially distressed or bank owned properties. Whether they are towering condos, gleaming hotel resorts, urban mixed use or suburban office space, many of these are now seeking new investors, developers and contractors …