If it seemed Arkansas had too many tornadoes to count this spring, that may have been true. Forecasters said Tuesday they located a tornado track near Hickory Plains in Prairie County, pushing Arkansas’ storm total for this year to 67. …
Investigators say the fatal crash of a small plane in northern Colorado left a 2-foot-deep crater. The National Transportation Safety Board says the single-engine airplane was found upside down about eight feet from the crater after the May 22 crash. …
A state district judge says sugar cane farmers cannot get punitive damages from a Texas-based well operator and a Louisiana oilfield service company in connection with a wild well that spewed oil and natural gas in Assumption Parish last year. …
The pilot of a Goodyear blimp screamed “I crashed the airship” before it burst into flames, a passenger who leapt to safety says. Photographer Joachim Storch told media that the blimp – The Spirit of Safety – missed its designated …
Inspectors need authority to randomly pull over tour buses on the highway if they are to catch rogue carriers using a variety of schemes to evade even the most basic safety rules, federal and state officials said Monday. Anne Ferro, …
A southwestern Illinois chiropractor already sentenced to federal prison for health-care fraud and money laundering has been ordered to pay nearly $1.9 million in restitution. Forty-one-year-old John Hardimon of Shiloh pleaded guilty last October in federal court in East St. …
Roughly 100 firefighters are battling a rooftop blaze in central London. The fire at a ten-story building being refurbished on The Strand sent smoke billowing throughout the area. Officials said Tuesday no injuries have been reported. The building was evacuated. …
Commercial insurance prices remained flat for the ninth consecutive quarter, and new data confirm the deterioration of loss ratios in accident-year 2010, according to global professional services company Towers Watson’s most recent Commercial Lines Insurance Pricing Survey (CLIPS). Price reductions …
As cyber risk becomes a larger threat to companies of all sizes, the associated costs and record breaches are staggering. A recent study found that the average cost of a data breach in 2010 was $7.2 million. According to another …
A Chicago family says members of the “Real Housewives of New Jersey” cast were real louts during a boozy trip to a Caribbean resort. Yolanda Martinez and some of her relatives filed a lawsuit Monday in New York. They say …