Ronaldo Martins of Irving, Texas, was sentenced to one year of deferred adjudication and ordered to pay $2,850 in restitution to Texas Mutual Insurance Company as a result of his guilty plea on a workers’ compensation fraud-related charge. Martins reported …
Eight additional counties have been designated for disaster assistance to households and businesses as part of North Carolina’s federal disaster declaration, according to officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The latest counties are Craven, Currituck, Greene, Hertford, Hoke, Pitt, …
A jury has found Sturgis, S.D., City Manager David Boone guilty of grand theft by deception after a three-day trial. KBHB radio reports that the jury deliberated nearly 3 1/2 hours Wednesday night before convicting Boone on the alternate charge. …
Arkansas has gotten a big check from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement with tobacco companies. Attorney General Dustin McDaniel announced Wednesday that the state received more than $49.5 million this week as its annual share of proceeds from the agreement, …
City officials in Prairie Grove in Washington County are considering eliminating the city’s three sirens that are used to warn residents of dangerous weather – including tornadoes. Administrative services director Larry Oelrich says the sirens are 14-years-old and would cost …
The Great Falls fire marshal says someone intentionally set fire to a house that was being remodeled, causing thousands of dollars in damage. Neighbors who saw smoke coming from the home’s windows called Great Falls Fire/Rescue shortly after 7 a.m. …
A neighbor says star chef and restaurateur David Bouley’s trash is really bugging him. A Bouley eatery’s food storage and garbage are subjecting the building next door to insects, odors and “seeping black ooze” coming through a basement floor, building …
An Erie County jury says the hospital now known as UPMC Hamot must pay $21.6 million in a malpractice case in which a botched birth left a boy profoundly disabled for life. Wednesday’s verdict includes $19.6 million to provide for …
The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that a cancer patient may pursue an emotional distress claim that alleges a faulty diagnosis let undetected cancer spread. The court Wednesday upheld an appellate court decision in a lawsuit filed by the woman …
Long Beach police have arrested a man on suspicion of setting 18 fires over the past weekend. Joshua Ethan Thomas was arrested early Wednesday by an officer who recognized him after seeing him near one of the fires. He’s being …