An icy blast tugged temperatures well below zero degrees in a large swath of the South on Feb. 10 leaving ranchers and farmers fretting about their animals after a winter storm dropped 2 feet of snow on parts of Arkansas …
Two Chicago-area home repair contractors who promised lifetime guarantees are being sued for misleading customers. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed a lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court against Frank Edelmann and Lee Sobczak, both of La Grange Park. The …
A contract worker was killed in a gas pipeline explosion and fire at a Houston-area petroleum plant, officials confirmed Feb. 9. Investigators found the remains of Rick Shaw, who had been working in the area of the Feb. 8 fire …
About 1,800 people were evacuated from a theater in Merrillville when a fire broke out on stage. Ross Township Fire Chief Ed Yerga says a curtain on the right side of the stage caught fire about 8:10 p.m. on Feb. …
Authorities in the Chicago suburb of Glenview say a construction worker from Indiana was killed when he was struck by a metal beam at the site of a new medical office building at Glenbrook Hospital. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s …
Court records say the supervisor of a renovation project in Des Moines’ Equitable Building has agreed to plead guilty to asbestos-removal charges. The Des Moines Register says Russell Coco’s lawyer confirmed that Coco will plead guilty to violating the Clean …
Four teenagers in the southeast Missouri town of Poplar Bluff are facing charges for allegedly throwing Molotov cocktails into a church, then setting the church on fire when the explosives didn’t go off. The Poplar Bluff Daily American Republic says …
A group of Kanawha Valley, West Virginia residents and workers is suing Bayer CropScience over plans to resume using the highly toxic chemical methyl isocyanate at its Institute plant. The federal lawsuit filed in Charleston seeks an order barring Bayer …
On issues ranging from the air we breathe to the noise factories make, business leaders want the government to stay out of their way. And the Republicans, looking toward the 2012 elections, are listening. The House’s principal investigative panel, the …
Representatives from 17 auto insurance companies joined forces with the Broward County Sheriff’s Office during a one-day crackdown on motorists who drive without insurance. This Wednesday’s crackdown on insurance fraud was a one-day initiative put together by the sheriff’s office …