Bullying, abuse and verbal harassment in the workplace may cause employees physical and psychological harm. That’s part of the rationale behind a proposal in Hawaii to make abusive conduct against an employee an occupational safety violation. Victims would be eligible …
Two Tulsans have sued EMSA seeking class-action status for members of the agency’s utility fee program they claim were fraudulently charged for ambulance service despite paying the fee. The lawsuit was filed Friday in Tulsa County District Court by Priscilla …
Express Scripts, Inc. has established a comprehensive fraud, waste and abuse (FWA) detection program for workers’ compensation payers, which can help stem the rising costs associated with the widespread abuse of prescription narcotics. The new Express Scripts program offers a …
There’s nothing like a flat tire to ruin a carefully planned heist. Spanish police say hooded thieves crashed a van into a courier service warehouse vault and made off with sacks of valuables on Thursday. They then fled in a …
Officials are puzzled over a mysterious hot tub that was installed – and then removed – from the roof of a building on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor. But a group of “creative” students are believed to …
Preliminary figures show a big jump in the number of people who died in fires in Minnesota last year. According to the Minnesota Public Safety Department’s State Fire Marshal Division, 51 people died in fires in 2011. That compares with …
A U.S. man who allowed his 9-year-old daughter to drive him around because he had been drinking was sentenced Thursday to two years of probation. Shawn Weimer pleaded guilty in December to second-degree child abuse and allowing an unlicensed minor …
Two years after Chile’s devastating earthquake, the failure to give a tsunami warning and a slow reconstruction effort are shaping politics ahead of the 2013 election to pick President Sebastian Pinera’s successor. The magnitude-8.8 quake and the tsunami it unleashed …
A former fitness center owner in Lincoln, Neb., has been accused of selling memberships despite knowing his business was going to close. Lincoln police say 59-year-old David Meisinger faces a theft charge over the sales. He had operated New Image …
Authorities in southwest Florida say they’ve arrested a man who drove a van with 5-foot tires over a small car, crushing it. According to the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office, a teenage girl returned to the Red Neck Yacht Club early …