More than 5,000 New Yorkers will be hired for temporary government jobs cleaning up after Superstorm Sandy, officials said Sunday. About $27 million in federal Labor Department money will finance the cleanup and rebuilding positions in New York City and …
More than $664 million in federal aid has been approved for New York’s victims of Superstorm Sandy by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA said Sunday that more than 230,000 New Yorkers have requested assistance since the storm hit. The …
The rate of Iowa roadway deer kills has declined to figures not seen since the 1980s, and hunters are getting much of the credit. The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports that in 2011, the rate was 570 deer killed per billion …
A fire official says arson isn’t suspected in a weekend blaze that destroyed a shopping center in southwestern Indiana that included nine businesses and a church. The fire reported early Saturday in Newburgh burned through the center’s roof and left …
According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, heavy rainfall began lashing the British Isles on Thursday, November 22, prompting hundreds of warnings and alerts. As of Tuesday, November 27 at 3 PM GMT, there were 182 flood warnings, two severe …
A new audit says Louisiana’s Office of Public Health has fallen short in its inspections of restaurants and other retail establishments that serve food, failing to ensure the meals are safe. The audit says the state issued permits to restaurants …
A car dealership in Bountiful, Utah, is out thousands of dollars after they say a man kicked a Maserati, a Mercedes Benz and other high-end vehicles. Manager J.B. Lawrence of Specialties Automotive Group says two surveillance cameras capture the man …
Idaho’s wildlife managers are starting to worry about the growing number of collisions involving motorists and deer, elk and moose. Studies show more than 5,000 of the animals were killed by vehicles on Idaho roadways last year, and that total …
Reinsurance company Swiss Re estimates that claims stemming from the destruction caused by Superstorm Sandy will cost the company about $900 million. The Swiss company also estimated Monday that total losses from insured damages will total between $20 billion and …
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford says its insurer has failed to cover more than $1 million the archdiocese paid out in recent years to settle four sexual misconduct cases involving priests. The archdiocese filed a federal lawsuit last week …