A broken water main is blamed for flooding basements of several homes in a St. Louis, Mo., suburb. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the 20-inch main ruptured Monday morning in Maryland Heights. Several basements were flooded and some residents …
Officials are investigating a fire at filmmaker Tyler Perry’s Atlanta studios, the second blaze in the past four months at the filming complex. The fire was reported just before 11 a.m. Monday and there were no reports of injuries. Authorities …
Thelma Taormina keeps a pistol at her Houston-area home to protect against intruders. But one of the last times she used it, she said, was to run off a persistent utility company worker who was trying to replace her old …
An attempt to hold a commercial landlord liable under Kentucky’s Dram Shop Act faltered earlier this month, when the Kentucky Court of Appeals found that the Act doesn’t address the liability of a third party. Monica Carruthers was injured in …
In the past decade, many courts and state legislatures have considered the issue of whether automobile policies provide coverage for diminished value of a repaired vehicle after a collision has occurred. Courts that have considered the issue have reached varying …
A government official says that Haiti’s death toll from Tropical Storm Isaac has jumped to 19. Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste of the country’s Civil Protection Office gave few details on how each person died in the storm that drenched Haiti over …
The death toll has risen to 41 after an explosion tore through Venezuela’s biggest oil refinery and ignited still burning fires. Hospital officials in the western city of Maracaibo said on Sunday that a soldier and a member of the …
An employee of Texas’ Seaworld San Antonio has died after apparently being accidentally shocked while working on a heating and air conditioning unit. Police say 49-year-old Ricardo Corpus died in the rooftop accident. Officer Matt Porter says another employee heard …
Hot Springs, Ark., is testing a siren and voice warning system to alert people to flooding in the resort city’s downtown area. Public Works Director Denny McPhate said Friday that the system would mainly be used to warn of floods …
Tropical Storm Isaac rolled over the open Gulf of Mexico on Monday, where it was expected to grow into a hurricane before hitting land somewhere between Louisiana and Florida and close to the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The storm …