Northwest Jesuit priests have formalized their Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, including a previously announced agreement that they will pay $166.1 million to settle sex abuse claims made by more than 450 people. A 90-page plan filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court …
A former police chief is appealing a federal judge’s decision dismissing his disability discrimination suit against a Pennsylvania State Police agency that certifies officers, claiming the agency wrongly refused to certify him because he uses a painkiller to deal with …
Maryland authorities say a large wind-swept fire has ripped through a poultry farm in Warwick, burning buildings and drawing more than 100 firefighters. Cecil County officials say the fire broke out about 7:30 p.m. Monday at the ISE America farm …
Brush fires have burned more than 600 acres in Virginia, the first significant wildfires since a rare February spate of fires scorched more than 8,400 acres. A fire in Dinwiddie County burned at least 500 acres Monday, while 100 acres …
The 2011 Atlantic hurricane season will be above average with nine hurricanes, five of them major, with a more than 70 percent chance that at least one of them will hit the U.S. coastline, Colorado State University forecasters predicted Wednesday. …
An arson at a National Public Radio affiliate in Arkansas and possible transmission wire tampering at a station in Texas were being investigated as separate incidents on April 4, but authorities said they would work to determine if the two …
A Des Moines, Iowa, couple says their former landlord is to blame for the death of their granddaughter and their own disabling injuries in a 2009 fire, according to their wrongful-death lawsuit. Sieh and Annie Toffoi said in the lawsuit …
A fire official says about 20 horses have died in a barn fire in suburban Cincinnati. Capt. Steve Conn of the Colerain Township fire department says some 15 other horses were rescued from the fire on April 5. Conn told …
A North Baltimore, Ohio, man has pleaded guilty to one count of workers’ compensation fraud. An investigation by the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) Special Investigations Division (SID) found that Harold Hayne was remodeling homes and opening a hardware …
Agents and adjusters have completely different roles in the insurance industry but as intermediaries between insurance companies and their customers they have one critical thing in common: They often get pulled into claims lawsuits even though they’ve done nothing wrong. …