A moderately strong earthquake shook Mexico’s Pacific coast resort of Acapulco on Wednesday, sending people fleeing into the streets. No damages or injuries were reported. The magnitude-5.8 quake occurred at 8:24 a.m. local time (1324 GMT) and was centered about …
A dump truck rear-ended a school bus in suburban Kansas City, sending six students and the bus driver to hospitals with apparently minor injuries. Lee’s Summit School District spokeswoman Janice Phelan says the students were headed to the AmericanJazzMuseum when …
The Norris School District and its insurer have settled a lawsuit by the family of a volleyball player who was injured when she slid into bleachers at Norris High School in 2008. The Lincoln Journal Star says the settlement of …
Members of Arkansas’ congressional delegation have announced a $335,250 grant to help rural and volunteer firefighters in the state. U.S. Rep. Mike Ross and Sen. Mark Pryor, both D-Ark., said Wednesday that the Arkansas Rural and Volunteer Firefighters Association will …
A Dallas Cowboys spokeswoman hurt when the team’s practice facility collapsed in 2009 during a storm has sued several companies. The lawsuit says Jancy Briles suffered “serious, disabling and permanent injuries.” Details were not released. Summit Structures and its parent, …
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Allstate Insurance Company is seeking to recover $4 million against 20 New York area defendants. The complaint specifically cites six physicians, eight medical professional corporations, and the lay-owned companies allegedly used to control the medical professional corporations. The complaint alleges …
The association representing independent insurance agents in Florida has dispatched a 40-foot long catastrophe response vehicle (CRV) to Northwest Georgia to provide aid and assistance to agents affected by the tornadoes that flattened dozens of businesses and homes. “Natural disasters …
Quickening climate change in the Arctic including a thaw of Greenland’s ice could drive world sea levels by up to 1.6 meters (5 ft. 3 in.) by 2100, an international report said on Tuesday. Such a rise — above most …
General Motors Co is recalling 154,112 of its top-selling Chevrolet Cruze compact cars to check that the steering shaft was properly installed, the automaker said Wednesday. These cars represent all of the Cruze cars built at its plant in Lordstown, …