Until recently, medical files belonging to nearly 300,000 Californians sat unsecured on the Internet for the entire world to see. There were insurance forms, Social Security numbers and doctors’ notes. Among the files were summaries that spelled out, in painstaking …
A Jefferson County jury has found a Bessemer funeral home and two of its employees negligent in the switching of identities of two women prior to family viewings in 2009 and awarded the families of the two women nearly $1 …
A 49-year-old man remains jailed in lieu of $48,000 bond after being accused of slashing the tires of dozens of patrol cars parked outside the Thibodaux Police Department headquarters. The Daily Comet reports that Glenn Watkins was arrested Thursday and …
Authorities say a school bus driver’s purse that slipped behind a brake pedal caused a wreck that injured the driver and several students. Investigators told the Augusta Chronicle the driver was trapped and some students suffered minor injuries on Friday …
The pilot of a hot air balloon and his passengers were burned when propane ignited as he was changing a fuel line upon lift off at the Great Falls Balloon Festival in Lewiston. Festival organizers said a small amount of …
A woman who claims she was sexually harassed by a co-worker at an Iowa military base and fired after she complained will be paid $190,000 in damages and legal fees and reinstated under a legal settlement. Lindsie Bertrand claimed the …
Officials in two counties in north-central Ohio say they’re widening a possible arson investigation after finding evidence of at least 27 suspicious fires since February. The fires have hit abandoned homes, barns, outbuildings, fields and ditches in Hardin and Union …
San Juan County has agreed to pay $250,000 to a man struck in the head and neck by a sheriff’s deputy with a flashlight. Donovan Tanner filed a lawsuit April 21 against the county, two sheriff’s deputies, a Farmington police …
A new report says a faulty water pipe contributed to the death of an Asheville firefighter during a blaze later determined to be arson. The Asheville Citizen-Times reports that Capt. Jeff Bowen was unable to get water from one of …
Police in Kalamazo, Mich., are reporting a string of burglaries in vacant homes in which the thieves seem to have been mainly interested in stealing copper pipes. Public safety Lt. Dave Ostrander says that “there have been 15 burglaries of …