Crews in Little River County are working to remove 31 rail cars loaded with coal that derailed south of Ashdown. The sheriff’s office said Wednesday that U.S. Highway 71 is open, but cleanup of the derailment is continuing. The Texarkana …
Dr. Jean Zannoni has been sentenced to two years probation and ordered to pay more than $7,500 in fines and restitution after pleading guilty to theft, attempted workers’ compensation fraud and telecommunications fraud, according to the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ …
Agreements resolving the dispute over long-haul, cross-border trucking services between the United States and Mexico were signed today, announced U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. Mexico will lift retaliatory tariffs, imposed two years ago, on more than $2 billion in U.S. …
According to a new study from Swiss Re, “Europe is witnessing a dramatic increase in property damage as a result of soil subsidence.” A new loss model developed by Swiss Re and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), …
After spending six weeks as a defendant in a criminal sexual assault case that now appears to be falling apart, Dominique Strauss-Kahn may have a seat waiting for him at the plaintiffs’ table, but taking it comes with risks and …
New Hampshire investigators are trying to determine the cause of an early morning fire that caused more than $40,000 in damage to a Nashua middle school. The fire alarm at the Fairgrounds Middle School sounded at about 4 a.m. Tuesday. …
U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe say the U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved a $400,000 emergency grant to 50 Maine potato farmers. The farmers suffered crop damage during recent storms that in some cases completely washed away topsoil, …
North Carolina inspectors responsible for checking rides at Carowinds kept records on every problem they discovered during their annual inspections at the amusement park that straddles both Carolinas near Charlotte, N.C. Their counterparts in South Carolina simply marked the rides …
A Jefferson County property owner has sued the Louisville Metro Council over an advertisement claiming he owed the city more than $12,000 in outstanding maintenance fines. Warren Jackel, owner of Real Estate Specialists, filed suit Thursday in Jefferson Circuit Court …
The Justice Department has intervened in a whistleblower lawsuit that accuses a New Orleans construction company of submitting forged records so it could cash in on a $28 million federal contract for work on government-issued trailers after Hurricane Katrina. A …