Virginians who had to endure stifling heat after storms caused massive power outages last summer should prepare to hunker down against the cold this time around, Gov. Bob McDonnell said Saturday as Hurricane Sandy churned along the Atlantic Coast. In …
Health officials in southwest Washington are investigating one confirmed case and another probable case of E. coli-related illness in children who visited a pumpkin patch and petting zoo. Cowlitz County health officials say two children became ill after visiting the …
A Mississippi man has pleaded not guilty to three federal crimes charging him with fraudulently obtaining more than $97,000 for a house he claimed was his primary residence when Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005. Anthony L. Bryan was in U.S. …
The number of embezzlement is on the rise in Maine. Between 1987 and 2002, no more than 20 people were arrested for embezzlement each year. The Sun Journal of Lewiston reports that the numbers started going up in 2003, with …
Researchers are trying to determine the cause of small tremors recorded in the past two weeks coming from the northwest corner of a salt dome in northern Assumption Parish. The Advocate reports that the general area of the 1- by-3-mile …
A 94-year-old Alabama woman died after being injured when her wheelchair rolled down a hill and landed in a ditch full of water. A relative says Elizabeth Street died at a hospital in Decatur on Saturday, three days after she …
An Albuquerque plumbing company is contesting a citation issued by the New Mexico Environment Department for a March accident at a bioenergy plant in Portales that left a worker dead. The state environment department issued a $2,500 citation to Donner …
Insurers say they are making the usual preparations for a hurricane – activating claims teams, staging adjusters near the locations most likely to be affected and generally getting ready to pay for a potentially huge volume of losses. “We plan …
Hurricane Sandy, the monster storm bearing down on the U.S. East Coast, strengthened on Monday after hundreds of thousands moved to higher ground, public transport shut down and the U.S. stock market suffered its first weather-related closure in 27 years. …
Construction in Joplin, Mo., since the tornado is approaching three-quarters of a billion dollars. Since May 22, 2011, about $715 million in construction has been started in Joplin, according to the latest building permit figures, which were for the months …