A man who says he contracted hepatitis C from a nurse educator is suing Dean Health System in Dane County Circuit Court. Keith Steffen’s lawsuit comes after Dean Health officials announced that the diabetes nurse educator may have exposed nearly …
The highest court in Massachusetts ruled Tuesday that teenagers who host underage drinking parties but do not supply alcohol cannot be held civilly liable if one of their guests gets hurt. The Supreme Judicial Court ruled in a case involving …
A Pittsburgh, Pa., suburb and its school district will pay $63,500 to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed by a woman who claims she was wrongfully barred from watching her daughter’s seventh-grade basketball practices and games in 2009. Diane Wickstrom …
A new report says every Maine county has been hit by at least one federally declared weather-related disaster since 2006. Environment Maine’s report says those disasters include such events as scorching heat, devastating wildfires, severe storms and record flooding. Environment …
The estate of an 81-year-old woman who was killed in her home has sued an alarm-system company, claiming an operator canceled an alarm call to police while the woman was being attacked. The Benton County Daily Record reports the suit …
A wind-whipped fire has destroyed five boats and damaged two others at a marina near New Jersey’s Barnegat Bay. A boater on the scene estimates damage from the Thursday morning fire at between a half-million and a million dollars. No …
The mayor of Columbus, Ohio, says the city plans to spend $11.5 million over the next few years to tear down 900 houses deemed dangerous or uninhabitable. While the spending would be a record for Columbus, Mayor Michael Coleman says …
Japan’s main shipping insurer will only be able to provide a fraction of the coverage to tankers transporting Iranian oil under new European Union sanctions, officials said on Friday. Starting in July, European insurers and reinsurers will be prohibited from …
A bulldog has been banned from a Georgia county for life after being accused of biting a child. The Savannah Morning News reports that Oreo can never return to Chatham County under an agreement approved by a judge and filed …