Federal workplace-safety officials are levying a $231,000 fine against a company that operates a southern Illinois pasta plant for violations linked to an explosion that injured two workers last October. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration …
Baltimore County fire officials say a blaze that dry conditions and wind help spread at a church was deliberately set. The three-alarm blaze caused about $400,000 in damage to Pleasant Zion Baptist Church in Dundalk. Investigators say the fire was …
Authorities believe a fire at a church in Oconto County of northeastern Wisconsin last month was set intentionally. The Brazeau Fire Department responded to the Klondike Community Church just outside of Coleman in the late hours of Monday, March 19. …
Calif.-based NAS Insurance Services named Jill Linhardt, senior vice president of Claims. Linhardt has been with NAS since 1994 and is a principal. An attorney by training, Linhardt began as an underwriter with NAS and moved to the claims department …
Farmers Insurance Exchange is asking for an average 39 percent statewide increase for its 25,500 insured homeowners in Louisiana. The state Insurance Department is examining the request, which was filed last week. Details on which areas would receive the largest …
Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the state will cover more local costs for recovery from the storms that flooded parts of New York last summer. His office says the state will make $61 million available to 25 counties to help pay …
U.S. safety regulators have expanded an investigation into 23 complaints of fires in Jeep Wrangler SUVs. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration hasn’t figured out what caused the fires, but it’s asking carmaker Chrysler for information on Wranglers from the …
Most people who ride their four-wheelers do so on their own property. WTVA-TV reports that occasionally someone will drive them on the road, and in Mississippi, that’s somewhat legal. Mississippi law allows all-terrain vehicles to be driven on public property …
Kansas City, Kansas, police say they ticketed 88 young people during an aggressive enforcement campaign geared toward making teenagers wear seatbelts. The police department worked with other law enforcement agencies across the state during a two-week effort in late March …
Authorities say a construction worker has died after a concrete delivery truck tipped over into the pit for an in-ground swimming pool near Lafayette, Ind. The Tippecanoe County Sheriff’s Department says emergency crews were called Wednesday morning to a home …