Furnas County has been ordered to pay more than $407,000 to a man injured in a car accident. The Lincoln Journal Star reports that U.S. District Judge Laurie Smith Camp awarded nearly $679,000 to Juston Pohl. But the judge reduced …
Federal investigators are listening to Santa Monica Airport audio tapes and interviewing maintenance workers in an effort to determine the cause of single-engine plane crash into the yard of a vacant home. The student pilot, whose name hasn’t been released, …
The still fledgling protection for whistle-blowers in Japan received a boost by a high court that reversed an earlier decision and rewarded damages to a worker who suffered retaliation through a transfer. The Tokyo High Court ordered Japanese camera and …
A coal ash pond next to an Ameren Corp. power plant in Labadie has been spilling up to 35 gallons of toxic coal waste for two decades, raising concerns in the eastern Missouri town. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Thursday …
Ten companies are recalling 2 million bottles and jugs of the gel fuel used in outdoor decorations known as firepots because of the risk of serious burns. The Consumer Product Safety Commission says the gel fuel has been linked to …
A Hamilton family has been awarded a $7 million judgment by a Suffolk Superior Court jury that determined a doctor and a nurse at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston were negligent in the death of their premature daughter. …
Individuals and business owners in five northern New Jersey counties can begin seeking federal assistance to recover from Hurricane Irene. President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed a disaster declaration for Bergen, Essex, Morris, Passaic and Somerset counties. Assistance can include …
The owner of a downtown Oakland residential hotel has been sentenced to prison for hiring someone to try to burn down the hotel. Federal prosecutors say Richard Earl Singer was sentenced to 27 months in prison Wednesday after he pleaded …
On the afternoon of July 23, two Amherst County deputies came to the home of Katherine and David Tyree with very bad news. For their presence, at least, Katherine Tyree was grateful. “I wouldn’t have wanted to have heard it …
Kathy Lanpher was showing a property to a client when she heard the improbable, gut-wrenching news: a wildfire like the one that destroyed her home four months ago was threatening the nearby subdivision where she had relocated. The real estate …