Critics of Gov. Rick Snyder’s call for more money to fix Michigan’s ailing roads and bridges are pointing to the state’s highway weight limit as the problem. The Detroit Free Press reports Tuesday that Michigan has the highest maximum truck …
A natural gas company is helping residents affected by a pipeline explosion in Sissonville, W.Va., buy new homes or repair homes that were damaged. NiSource Inc. spokeswoman Chevalier Mayes tells the Charleston Daily Mail that the company can’t provide a …
The Colorado Supreme Court is doing away with an emergency exception for people involved in accidents because it could mislead jurors. In a ruling handed down Tuesday, the court ordered a new trial for a man who sued after he …
Fire roared through a 90-year-old Southern California residential hotel in the harbor area early Tuesday, injuring 14 people, three of them critically. People hung out of windows of the San Pedro Inn after the fire broke out at about 3:30 …
Need help preparing for a disaster in Virginia? There’s an app for that. The Virginia Department of Emergency Management has developed the free Ready Virginia mobile app provides emergency planning and preparedness guidance. It also provides location-specific weather warnings, disaster …
A University of North Carolina student wounded in last summer’s shooting outside the Empire State Building is suing New York City police department. Chenin Duclos and eight other bystanders were wounded by police gunfire, ricochets and fragments. Officers were engaged …
Cooking remained the leading cause of all residential building fires and injuries from 2008 to 2010, accounting for 45 percent of all residential building fire responses by fire departments, according to a new report from the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA). …
Beazley has expanded its environmental products offering with the launch of an Environmental Cleanup Costs insurance policy that provides coverage for cost overruns for remediation of known conditions at covered locations. The product, written on a non-admitted basis through Beazley’s …
Federal securities fraud class action filing activity decreased sharply in 2012, according to Securities Class Action Filings—2012 Year in Review, a semiannual report prepared by Cornerstone Research and the Stanford Law School Securities Class Action Clearinghouse. Only 152 federal securities …
Berlin police say a man suspected of brazenly tunneling into a city bank’s safety deposit room used a fake Netherlands identity card to rent an underground parking spot nearby. Authorities released a photo Tuesday of the man, appearing to be …