A new and improved Rimrock Auto Arena at MetraPark is opening this week, less than a year after being significantly damaged by a tornado. The rebuilt arena hosts a Women of Faith event on Friday and Saturday and will break …
Pennsylvania State Police say troopers issued nearly 800 citations for safety violations during a one-day enforcement effort targeting vehicles carrying hazardous materials. Acting Commissioner Frank Noonan says 790 citations were issued after troopers inspected 1,599 commercial vehicles on March 29. …
A former Acadia National Park restaurant employee has won his lawsuit seeking park documents about a 2008 confrontation between park rangers and a group of young people atop the park’s Day Mountain that left him with serious facial injuries. The …
U.S. District Judge L.T. Senter Jr., who presided over hundreds of Hurricane Katrina insurance cases, is retiring Friday. The Sun Herald reports Senter and his staff have spent the week packing up his offices on the fifth floor of the …
New Zealand’s government has agreed to provide financial support for AMI, the country’s second-largest residential insurer, after two major earthquakes threatened to deplete its capital, Finance Minister Bill English said on Thursday. English said the potential cost for the government …
Water caused $9.1 billion in annual homeowner policy property losses from 2007 to 2009 – approximately 23 percent of all homeowner property losses. But up to 93 percent, or almost $8.5 billion, of the cost of water damage could have …
The recalled Jennie-O Turkey Store burgers, distributed exclusively at Sam’s Club stores nationwide, have been linked by federal health officials to at least 12 illnesses dating back to December 2010. The recalled Jennie-O turkey burgers have a use-by date of …
The Red Cross says preliminary reports indicate four homes, five outbuildings and possibly a few vacant mobile homes were destroyed in a wind-driven wildfire that swept through Spencer. Red Cross spokesman Rusty Surette said in a news release that dozens …
Paris Hilton is holding $60,000 of jewelry that does not belong to her and should give it back, a new lawsuit contends. A German insurer, Allianz SE, has sued the celebrity socialite and heiress to the Hilton Hotels fortune, saying …
An obstetrician-gynecologist from Bridgeport has been indicted on federal tax evasion charges. Prosecutors say 56-year-old Dr. Julie K. McCammon was charged in a one-count indictment handed up by a grand jury in Wheeling on Tuesday. She’s accused of avoiding nearly …