A South Texas city’s effort to improve its look has led to the tearing down or sprucing up of about 200 structures. The Harlingen City Commission received an update Wednesday on the two-year campaign. City Attorney Roxann Pais Cotroneo offered …
The Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office, in Louisiana, says deputies have ticketed a trucker injured when his tractor-trailer rear-ended another, causing a wreck that killed 56-year-old Jim Harville of Waskom, Texas – the driver of a third big rig. Spokeswoman Cindy …
The state fund propping up Michigan’s no-fault auto insurance system is facing a lawsuit to force administrators to open their financial books, highlighting increasing costs behind the system and the urgency with which insurance companies and policyholders are pushing reform …
Tropical Storm Debby meandered slowly to the Florida coast on Sunday, bringing strong winds and waves that forced the closure of about a quarter of offshore oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico and spawning tornadoes that killed …
Officials say heavy storms across central South Africa killed a woman at her farmhouse and a man holidaying at a popular resort. Police spokeswoman Majang Skalkie said Sunday that the woman died when high winds ripped the roof from her …
An Albuquerque, N.M., man and his wife have sued Albuquerque police, alleging that officers violated their civil rights when they ordered them out of their home at gunpoint and put them in handcuffs when they had done nothing wrong. The …
Consumer complaints against Michigan insurance companies are slightly down from the previous year. The Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation says in a statement that the agency received 3,441 insurance company-related consumer complaints in 2011, down from 3,645 in 2010. …
State media say a moderate earthquake in a mountainous part of southwestern China has killed one person and injured 10 others. The official Xinhua News Agency says the magnitude-5.7 quake struck Sunday afternoon and was centered near the border of …
Los Angeles, CA, 06/25/12 – Sullivan Brokers Wholesale Insurance Solutions is pleased to announce that James Viera has joined the firm’s Casualty Practice Group in the position of Senior Broker. “Jim is an exceptional professional wholesale broker with impeccable market …
A woman whose vehicle crashed into a West Memphis, Ark., funeral home suffered a seizure before the deadly accident occurred, her family members said. An Alabama toddler died late Thursday when the vehicle careened off the road and slammed into …