A Maine marina owner says he’s going to seek reimbursement for damages to his docks and his customers’ boats from the owners of the two vessels he says created a “mini-tsunami” that caused the damages. Darren LaPierre, owner of Badger’s …
Wilmington police say there have been nearly 200 cases of thieves stealing metal piping from vacant properties across the city this year. Authorities said Wednesday that four theft cases have been reported in the last week. Mayor James Baker says …
The first federal trial on lawsuits seeking damages from the Tennessee Valley Authority’s huge coal ash spill is set to start. A bench trial on six lawsuits starts Thursday before U.S. District Judge Thomas Varlan in Knoxville. The lawsuits seek …
The morning commute threatened to be unusually long Thursday at the nation’s busiest border crossing after all U.S.-bound traffic was halted the previous day because scaffolding had collapsed, falling on more than a dozen cars and injuring 11 travelers and …
A trial is under way in Eugene over a police officer’s use of a stun gun to stop a man fleeing over a fence from a traffic stop. The excessive force suit filed by 34-year-old David Snauer in federal court …
A Colorado farm is voluntarily recalling its cantaloupes after one of its melons tested positive for Listeria. According to KMGH-TV, Jensen Farms says one of its Rocky Ford cantaloupes sampled from a store tested positive. Four people have died and …
Two people were killed and at least nine injured on Thursday in a fire on a cruise liner operating on a popular route along Norway’s craggy coast, officials said. Police said they received information that an additional four people were …
Police in western Kentucky are investigating after several thousand dollars’ worth of tools were stolen from a disaster relief group. The Livingston County Sheriff says the tools include chain saws, an air compressor, tool boxes, a power washer and various …
A contractor fired at the federal courthouse in St. Louis a decade ago is blamed for installing a misaligned pipe that broke and flooded many floors. But the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that a General Services Administration official says there …
Arkansas has had more tornadoes on average in the past decade, when measured against the prior 20 years, according to an analysis of tornado trends by the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla. The 10-year average for annual tornadoes was …